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10 Reasons to Bootstrap Your Business
Posted Under: Capital, Entrepreneurship, Financing on 5 Mar, 2012
Getting your startup off the ground takes cash. There are a number of ways to raise funding for your business, but with every investment dollar you accept you sell a piece of the startup’s soul. You want to be able to focus on building a great product, not on balancing the ideas and priorities of a pool of investors....
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Interview With The Startup Attorney – Doug Bend
Posted Under: Interviews on 17 Sep, 2011
– What are the legal basics you should cover if you’re planning to start business along with your day job? – Can your employer take away your startup or property built out of your side project? – What are your legal rights and responsibilities for your day job and the side business? – What’s the best way to tell your employer about your side gig? – Where to go if you need more legal help but can’t afford it… And many more such legal questions that don’t let aspiring entrepreneurs sleep at night are answered in this interview where I had the opportunity to chat with Doug Bend, the startup and small business attorney. You can find him on Twitter @DougBend and read on now to make sure you’re covered. DD: Doug, thank you so much for joining us...
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Grow Your Side Hustle, Escape the 9 to 5!
Posted Under: Tips & Tricks! on 27 Aug, 2011
Back in May this year, I had the opportunity to chat with the Genjuice community. We had a live Facebook Q&A where many aspiring entrepreneurs asked me questions about growing their side project to escape the rat race. Below is the summary that they published later and I’m re-publishing & sharing it with you to help those of you who may have similar curiosities. So, here’s the Q&A chat to help you grow your side hustle and escape the 9 to 5: Last week GenJuicers rocked Facebook with questions for entrepreneur Devesh Dwivedi, an expert on breaking free from 9 to 5 daily grind. Devesh started his first business, a comic books rental company, when he was only 14, and since then he has founded and co-founded several businesses. He has an MBA and worked for multiple...
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Does Your Idea Deserve a Business Plan?
Posted Under: Tips & Tricks! on 21 Aug, 2011
One question that many aspiring entrepreneurs ask me is how to identify if “it” is the idea that deserves further investment to execute or formally writing a business plan. As an entrepreneur myself and advisor/investor for many entrepreneurs and small businesses, I get to see both sides of the need of business plan. An entrepreneur typically falls for ‘I know what I’m doing’ yet fails to communicate it right, to others involved (Banks, partners, vendors, investors) and expects people to have the same understanding and excitement about the idea as he or she does. Quite frankly, it’s like asking someone to read your mind and continue doing so… Creepy, of course! Point is, a business plan is nothing but communication in writing, where you tell...
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Employee Turned Entrepreneur – Michael Anderson
Posted Under: Entrepreneur, Our Heroes, Startup on 20 Aug, 2011
Greetings all! It’s been a while since I posted a new story in ‘Our Heroes‘ series so here’s our spicy come back… Today I’ve Michael Anderson, Chief Spice Creative & Founder of SpiceCrafters who broke out of his 9to5 jail where he was a Quality Assurance Engineer. Not happy with what he was doing, Michael tried his luck with multiple ideas before finally launching SpiceCrafters. Let’s find out rest of the spicy details: DD: Who are you and what kind of corporate job were you at? MA: My name is Michael Anderson. I went to college like any other person looking for what my future held and had no idea. Not being one for prolonged college I asked myself what the most money I could make with the least amount of college. In 1998 the bull’s eye landed on Computer...
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