The goldrush years of blogging have been over for quite some time already. Back in the good ole days, anybody with a hint of entrepreneurial drive could buy a domain, throw up an ‘advanced’ wordpress blog, and follow ProBlogger’s tips verbatim to make a pretty easy penny. Google Adsense, Text-Link-Ads, and then those beautiful 125X125 [...]
While it’s true that the best entrepreneurs are people with vision, creativity and passion, to be a great entrepreneur you also need to develop certain skills. To make your idea successful, you need to know a little about how to do market research, differentiate, develop a business plan, hire good employees, adapt to competitors, use [...]
Society as a whole has a bad habit of frowning on those who lead lives of nonconformity. In school creativity is often punished, alternative fashion is usually scoffed at, and not following the herd is often times just labeled wrongly. In reality, though, these critics are really just jealous (cliche, kind of, i know) but [...]
I was watching CNN the other day when they featured an impressive young entrepreneur named Farrah Gray. Growing up in the projects of Chicago’s south side, he was a natural businessman. At age six, he started selling home-made body lotion and hand-painted rocks to his neighbors. By twelve, he was operating several ventures related to [...]
Finals week has come and gone for me. A total of 9 days of preparation including countless theses all revised ~12 times each, countless practice problems, and bunches of Facebook status updates to complain about finals week to fit in amongst your fellow, struggling students. So the natural question arises: What if you tried this [...]
