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Last night I was at the Sunshine Coast premier of the documentary The Startup Kids.
It’s an hour long movie created by two woman from iceland, Vala Halldorsdottir and Sesselja Vilhjalmsdottir, who came to America to interview people about life as a young entrepreneur working on a tech startup.
Several high profile company founders feature in the … Read the rest of this entry »
As I write this on my 31st birthday, I thought it may be helpful to take a look back at this year in my life as well as in business. I probably learned more about business in the past 365 days than I have thus far in my life.
Overall, my business did grow (prorating fiscal year) and … Read the rest of this entry »
We are now living in the age of Vocational Darwinism, and the business skill that will make the difference in every professional life is the ability to adapt.
At its core, Vocational Darwinism is the application of Charles Darwin’s principle of “survival of the fittest” to our working world – and whether you are a budding entrepreneur … Read the rest of this entry »
Sometimes, no matter how carefully you plan and prepare to execute a client engagement, things just go wrong. Big things, small things, crazy things, ridiculous things. Things just go wrong.
I know because ALL of the following have happened to me at some point over the last four years:
When you hear the term “Mission Statement“, what comes to mind?
For many of us, Mission Statements are synonymous with corporate entities and impersonal HR departments (did someone say TPS reports?).
Yet Mission Statements aren’t just for the Kodaks and Coca Colas of the world – they can be effective tools for entrepreneurs to not only keep … Read the rest of this entry »
Last week I wrote about my social media adventures and the results I’ve had even though I’m not a social media guru. I also mentioned how my computer/technical skills were questionable, and it got me thinking about how someone like me could ever end up writing on a blog like Entrepreneur’s Journey and setting up a big part of … Read the rest of this entry »
I’m not going to lie – living the freelance life is pretty awesome.
I make my own schedule, work where I want, and can make things like exercising, spending time with my family, and meditation a part of my daily life without issue (all things that I struggled with while commuting two hours a day to a 9-5!).
I like to use my time and the space Yaro gives me here at Entrepreneurs-Journey to base my articles on questions I often receive and this one will be no different as I am going to discuss how “Mitch’s Blog” became a company with 18 current writers.
While the building a company part I have talked about in … Read the rest of this entry »
Every morning, we wake up and get ready to do some things. Often those things revolve around our job, our business or our hobbies.
Day after day, week after week, year after year, we do them. Why? What drives you to do what you do?
Sometimes it is necessity. Sometimes it is passion. Even curiosity, compulsion or coercion. But … Read the rest of this entry »
Late to Bed,
Early to Rise,
Makes an Entrepreneur,
Happy, Cheerful & Nice!
What gets you so excited you can’t wait to begin working on it today?
Think about it while you read the rest of this post.
In 1997, I got married. It was barely two weeks later that my wife and I had our first serious argument. … Read the rest of this entry »
I am unemployable. I always have been. I always will be.
Up until last year employment gave me a morbid fear deep in the pit of my stomach. Even with a successful personal business, living in a house that is paid for, and a dedicated support team in the wings – I still was freaking out about the fact … Read the rest of this entry »
I was speaking to my home loan broker this week. I’m purchasing an investment property and he helps organize the loans to make it all happen.
My broker is good at what he does, but like many small business owners there’s a lot of latency in his operations. He was explaining to me how he had a huge database … Read the rest of this entry »
Back in August of 2005 I wrote an article that outlined what a typical day in my life was like. I linked to the post in my about page as I see it as a subject people are very interested in – what’s it like to live each day when you make money from the Internet?
You can read … Read the rest of this entry »
Several years ago when I was managing BetterEdit, my proofreading company that I sold in 2007, I was knee deep learning from Rich Schefren, taking his Business Growth System course.
Rich launched that program on the back of his most successful report to date, the Internet Business Manifesto, which featured the now famous flow chart of … Read the rest of this entry »
We’ve almost nutted out the bugs with the new design and I must say I’m very happy with how everything looks. I’ll talk more about the design process (and reveal who did my blog design) in a later post, now I want to tell you about a little free report I’m giving away to my RSS subscribers as part … Read the rest of this entry »
I’m not sure this will teach you a whole lot about Internet business but hey, you get to see what I had for lunch. Give a guy a camera and this is what happens…
I’ve been thinking lately about starting another Internet business. I’m not actually going to (right now), but I was considering my future and also what I might do hypothetically if today I decided to dedicate myself to a new project.
Over the past years of running an Internet business and studying information marketing and strategic business development I’ve come … Read the rest of this entry »
For any entrepreneurs in Brisbane around late March, I’m organising another entrepreneurs meet-up and you are welcome to come provided you are not completely insane or only looking to recruit people into your pyramid business scheme.
I’ve sent out an email to the people that I know would be interested but I’ve lost a few contact details for other … Read the rest of this entry »
For any aspiring Australian entrepreneurs out there with a good idea but lacking capital the Best Business Idea Awards 2006 may be just what you are looking for.
At once stage in life everyone has had a great business idea that will make a million dollars, but there’s been one big problem – no money to make it work.
