#entrepreneurship (18 links)
- Small tech scattered-thoughts.net
Role models matter. So I made a list of small companies that I admire. Neither giants nor startups - just people making a living writing software on their own terms.
Via Popular.
You're so busy, doing everything yourself. You know you need help, but to find and train someone would take more time than you have! So you keep working harder, until you break.
- Organic Startup Ideas paulgraham.com
The best way to come up with startup ideas is to ask yourself the question: what do you wish someone would make for you?
- Startup School 2009: 37 Signals has some lessons for European startups eu.techcrunch.com
Always do good things, never do bad things.
I’ve seen a lot of web apps launched recently which haven’t succeeded. They’re not failing miserably, and they’re not wild successes. They’re just kind of puttering along, sapping just enough resources to be a problem, but not succeeding enough to really take off. The majority of these apps were built by small web design firms or freelancers who bought into the dream without really understanding how much time it takes to make an app succeed.
- Kickstarter kickstarter.com
A funding platform for artists, designers, filmmakers, musicians, journalists, inventors, bloggers, explorers...
#design #music #business #social #work #creativity #ideas #entrepreneurship#fundraising#funding #art #startups The old digital agency model is not helpful today. Instead, the industry can learn a lot from social start-ups (like Vimeo - who I am in love with, or SoundCloud) and work as fast as possible, being entrepreneurial, pragmatic, and nimble [...] People in traditional agencies - ‘old new media’ and our cousins in advertising - say they find all of the above quite challenging - which is weird because these agencies are stuffed with really smart people.
Via markrocky.
- Make Money Online: 101 Top Ways of Doing It experienced-people.co.uk
For PH.
Enables social entrepreneurs, socially-minded people and socially-driven organisations to share, shape and use social insight to generate greater positive impact in the real world.
- Why Zappos Pays New Employees to Quit—And You Should Too - Harvard Business Online's Bill Taylor discussionleader.hbsp.com
Looks like Zappos is doing things right.
- Be Good paulgraham.com
Either businesses aren't supposed to be like charities, and we've proven by reductio ad absurdum that one or both of the principles we began with is false. Or we have a new idea.
A small article on making the leap to working for yourself
I've been thinking about a number of new product ideas lately. In doing so, I've been trying to come up with a way more structured way of evaluating them. Here's a first attempt at defining that.
Great ideas are only great if they fit a purpose, as such it is important to be clear from the outset what your site’s core user proposition is.
- Founder's Syndrome: How Corporations Suffer -- and Can Recover managementhelp.org
This syndrome occurs when, rather than working toward its overall mission, the organization operates primarily according to the personality of a prominent person in the organization, for example, the founder, board chair/president, chief executive, etc
- How To Bootstrap Your Startup readwriteweb.com
"What skills you’ll need, how to write your requirements, how to source developers and designers, how much to budget, how to agree a development contract, how to manage your vendors, how to plan your release, all the documentation you'll need, and much
- The P.T. Barnum Guide to Online Publicity | Copyblogger copyblogger.com
Every once in a while, you might try something completely off the wall and gain big traction, as long as you find a way to deliver value beyond the hype.