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I just came across some really exciting material this weekend. Apparently the biggest “school” in the world right now is run and taught by one person. I put school in quotes because it’s not a school in the traditional sense – it is just one guy who started making tutoring videos for his cousins on [...]
How To Sell Your Company
4 May 2010John Warrillow sent me a copy of his book recently (one of the perks of having a business blog) and it was surprisingly good. The book is titled “Built To Sell” – which actually turned me off a bit at first. It reminded me of “Built To Last”, the famous business book by Jim Collins, [...]
Things have been growing nicely at my business, UniversityTutor.com, in the last few months. Here are a few graphs that I have auto-generated each week to see what’s going on. I really like the idea of having a “dashboard” for your business like this to help you see the cycles and spot anomalies early on. [...]
How To Start Your Own Country
26 Jan 2010This is sort of a funny topic I’ve been reading about recently, and I wanted to share some findings. It’s mostly just meant for fun (mental masturbation in the wider sense of “breaking free”) but has some interesting long term implications. Read on future King and Queens! First Of All, Why Would You Want To [...]
My Business Will Take Off This Year, If ONLY…
In: Education
18 Jan 2010What’s holding you back from accomplishing your business goals this year? This might help you stay on track… OnlineProfits.com just re-launched their site. I told people about this last year and it seemed to have pretty good feedback. The people who teach this are pretty top notch in their industry, check out the contributors. A [...]
Check out this page Ramit Sethi put together about getting your finances under control. It’s generally great advice and I do quite a lot of it already, like setting up automatic deposits to my ING Direct savings accounts. Here is an email he got from a reader… “I want to earn more (I know, who [...]
10 Businesses that make REAL money online
29 Oct 2009If you’re interested in starting an online business from home, and you’d like to learn about the top businesses that are working right now, then check this out: http://www.startbreakingfree.com/go/ignition/ Or here is the video link: You can get a free ticket to a 90-minute webinar called: ”10 REAL Online Businesses You Can Start From Home RIGHT NOW.” Eben has [...]
SCREENSHOT: Build A Business That Scales
In: Education
26 Sep 2009It’s inspiring to check out your Google Analytics stats sometimes. Things go up and down naturally a bit each month, but as long as you’re helping more people over time then it will be hard not to be successful. According to Google, over 33,000 people used something that I built last month. That’s a drop [...]
I recently stumbled on the writings of Paul Graham and I have to say I’ve been incredibly impressed. It’s not often that I find myself finding such insight and experience in what I read. Most people out there are hawking versions of the same story, but Paul Graham seems to have a unique perspective on [...]
Nerd Exercise To Stimulate Your Brain
In: Education
27 Aug 2009This isn’t specifically related to starting a business but I thought some people might find it interesting. It gives you a little insight into computer science and will make you feel smarter. You know those weird bunch of characters you see on the end of some URL’s? You might have seen something like this: Please [...]
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