CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST Link: Bad advice? • office supplies. When a firm I still work for opened a bureau office in 1999 they supplied it with a box of 500 pens all prominently decorated with...
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CONTINUED NEXT POST This issue was also covered by Harry Goldburg, another commenter who was convinced both Dane and I were off our collective rockers. More on Harry's other great feedback...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST This is more of a consideration for those who practice bootstrap entrepreneurship by choice like Greg Gianforte who made enough on the sale of his first venture...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST Dave mentions GAP accounting laws as a reason to start a business bank account right off the bat. He's referring, I believe, to General Accepted Accounting Principles...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST Before you've sold your first product to your first customer on what exactly will you seek advice from the accountant you retain? The revenues projected in a well...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST This sort of cart-before-the-horse thinking is best expressed in a series of comments on everything from company organization to professional services and right down to...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST Amazingly, most commenters ignored the point of the posts completely which was, of course, small business startup. This means sitting in your living room or in front of...
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Last week's series of posts on Ten (X 2) Commandments when starting your bootstrap business venture inspired by Dane Carlson's "20 things not to do before starting a business"...
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST Having reviewed this great list, let's try a follow-up exercise. If you can think of any startup don'ts (or even some startup do's), post 'em on your own...
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Link: 20 startup tips CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST For his second 10 No-No's Dane suggests: 11. Thou Shalt Not Design A Logo Oh-oh! Explain that light bulb thingy at the top of your website then,...
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Link: 20 startup tips CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST 6. thou Shalt Not Hire An Accountant Dane recommends Quickbooks Simple Start. (An accountant actually recommended I buy this while I was trying to...
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Link: 20 startup tips CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST Automattic Inc., the folks who maintain the popular wordpress blogging platform, have posted a great blurb in the Terms of Sevice section of their...
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Link: 20 startup tips CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST As Dane points out, working from home usually costs you nothing to start and no rent. Here are my own tips for working at home with some helpful...
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Link: 20 startup tips CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST 2. thou Shalt Not Incorporate Especially not in the state of Pennsylvania where I live and which boasts (for some reason) one of the highest...
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Link: 20 startup tips CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST I've posted about this one before. Leaving your day job before you have a viable business model worked out (not on paper, I'm talking about...
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Here's a great set of rules to follow for any bootstrapping entrepreneur. Business Opportunities Weblog Network creator Dane Carlson has assembled what I think are the ultimate Ten Commandments...
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Thanks to Romanian entrepreneur and blogger Cristian Dorobantescu for the great previous guest posts and for the link back from his own blog here. Cristian's got four other great posts on the...
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Link: Cristian Dorobantescu CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST Higher determination to succeed. Now, really, in a self funded company, if you're doing it wrong, it might be the end. You can't...
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Link: Cristian Dorobantescu CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST And then, there is the self-accomplishment feeling. If you are in a small company, you know that everything that was done, was done by you. If...
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Link: Cristian Dorobantescu CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST Also, self funded companies are better in using resources. Sure, I'm talking about travel expenses, office supplies and stuff like that,...
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Link: Cristian Dorobantescu CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST Then, externally funded companies could offer better payments to employees - which in theory attracts better specialists - in reality this...
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