How to Quit Your Job and Start Your Own Business
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3 Aug 2010Had the pleasure of meeting Tony recently for lunch. Really enjoyed this post he put up: http://www.tonywright.com/2010/rethinking-f-you-money/ Totally agree that the mythical 6-10% return is not being achieved by many these days, and that the real pay off of selling a business can come from the credibility – not the money. Definitely food for thought, [...]
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26 Jul 2010I’ve seen a few startups recently who want to have their customers sign contracts to get started. The logic being that you can guarantee recurring income for your business (for the length of the contract) or you’ll have some recourse if the person fails to pay. But there are two flaws with this thinking: If [...]
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25 Jul 2010Gotta have a little fun with it :)
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18 Jul 2010I recently put up a project on 99Designs.com to get UniversityTutor redesigned. I put up a $795 prize and got 46 entries from a half dozen designers Most of the designs weren’t very good, but one designer stood out and I awarded him the prize. His name is Jack Herbert and he is in the [...]
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14 Jul 2010This is unfortunate. I no longer have access to the Google Group I use for support http://groups.google.com/group/feedmailpro on FeedmailPro.com. It seems there is a known bug with Groups where people are getting unsubscribed. This happened to me, which in itself is no big deal. But when I re-subscribed by emailing the +subscribe address for the [...]
This is pretty cool. Was looking at the stats recently for FeedmailPro.com and about 600,000 messages (blog posts going to email subscribers) have gone out since it started just six months ago. 306 blogs with 132,844 total subscribers are now using the service 9 paying customers so far which is a 3% conversion rate on [...]
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. [...]
Quick post to let you know I’ve decided to move from Buenos Aires back to the bay area (where I grew up). I’ll be moving in a few days. I was planning to keep traveling for a while but a great opportunity came up to work on a new startup. While I was back in [...]
Over the last month or so I’ve quietly rolled out some changes to BuyersVote. These were little things I discovered that I wanted while using the site. Take note: this is one of the best reasons to build something (in a startup) that you actually want to use for yourself! If you’re an actual user, [...]
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 »