How to Quit Your Job and Start Your Own Business
In: Education| Incorporation
23 Feb 2009It seems lately that everyone is arguing about where to spend the “stimulus” money for the auto industry.
Some think they should stop manufacturing cars and just design them. Some think they should take all the stimulus money and give it venture capitalists. Some think the car companies should fix their PR. And [...]
In: How To| Incorporation| Interviews
12 Aug 2008This video shows an interesting panel of people who’ve started web companies:
Marcus Kazmierczak, VP of Engineering, MayasMom.com
Marcus Frind, Founder, PlentyofFish.com
James Hong, Co-Founder, HotorNot.com
Dave Lu, CEO, Fanpop.com
Karen Northup, CEO and Founder, CoreFino
Check out a hilarious story around the 18:57 mark from James Hong about how he bootstrapped HotOrNot.com for literally zero dollars. [...]
In: Incorporation| Updates
17 Jun 2007This is the first day of the marketing challenge. Here are the three things I got done today. These aren’t the sort of real traffic building activities I’d like to get to, but are more like pre-requisites to get the site together properly.
1. I moved the email newsletter service from Zookoda to FeedBlitz. [...]
In: Incorporation
28 May 2007In Breaking Free, I make a big point of how important it is to incorporate your business.
It makes sense for a couple of reasons. First, because it protects you from personal liability, and second, because it offers you some great tax advantages.
For today, let’s just focus on the personal liability part.
Incorporating your business protects [...]
Breaking Free is a blog for people who'd like to quit their 9-to-5, start their own business, and achieve financial freedom. It's written by web-entrepreneur Brian Armstrong. You can read more here »