It seems like just yesterday that two of my good friends came up with the idea to start a t-shirt search engine called Teenormous. I think it was 2 years ago that the site launched and it has already surpassed $1,000,000 in sales. Quite impressive. The cool thing about their business model is that it [...]
I do quite a bit of consulting to college students who are looking to take their business idea to the next level. Most of the time, a person will come to me with an idea for a business that is based either on some perceived market need or based on some pre-existing skill set. One [...]
Businesses, big or small, are essentially solution-providers. People have various problems, and you sell your ideas on how to solve them – if they like it, they’ll buy it. Today, the global economic crisis seems daunting, but entrepreneurs should look at it rather as an opportunity. There is an abundance of problems to be solved. [...]
One of this blog’s most popular posts came ages ago about making summer plans, and it inspired me to start my own web projects which has proved invaluable. So I hope these summer plan making posts do the same. In part one I covered things to do to increase your marketability (on paper) during the [...]
Business ideas are usually born out of spontaneous inspiration. Depending on your means, financial and otherwise, these could be turned into instant ventures or simmer in your brain for a while, where you spend countless hours perfecting it. Sometimes we become so enamored in an idea that we think it’s the best ever, and when [...]
