Start a Side Business

In his latest article on lifehacker, Keith Robinson gives his first impressions of what he has learned during the initial phase of starting his company.

Here are my key takeaways on how it applies to starting your side business:

Don’t be an employee:you’ve got to be thinking for yourself, and act like you are in the driver’s seat, because guess what, you are!

Don’t make excuses: actually, my thinking is that you can’t make excuses. Not only can’t you afford to, but there is not point, one excuse too many and you may as well close down.

Master your time: you’ve got to be on top of things. And as you get your side business off the ground, time is our much precious commodity. Not only don’t have much of it, but you have far less than someone doing this full time. So you have to constantly ask yourself whether you are leveraging yourself as much as you can. The non-essential can wait.

Be flexible: sounds obvious, especially for something you are doing on the side. Be creative too on how you use your time, on what you settle for, on what you aim for. It is as if you need to find the absolute core of the value you perceive and make others see that.

Stick up for your passions: or as Paul Graham puts it: “The only thing you have this is not a commodity is your commitment.” If you are commited, if you are passionate about what you do, you can be virutally unstoppable. Your worst enemy might in fact be yourself.

For the full article, read it on life hacker.

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