Tag: How to start a business
The first book in my new How to Become a Startup Pro On the Side” series is available to order right Now on Amazon. “Essential reading for any creative Entrepreneur – Business Week “If you’re a new entrepreneur, creator or business professional looking start your own business “How To Become A Startup Pro on the side”, will…
Driving competitive advantage by getting your most important capital (people) working together whilst remaining focused on common goals and outcomes can be one of the biggest challenges facing organisations today. Personal agendas, positioning, politics, opinions and differing views and viewpoints can all detract valuable time, effort and financial resources away from delivering the results that…
A Cunning plan Once again “happy” Wednesday (delivery day) had rolled around and the usual free sweetie stocks were duly delivered. Like a hustling drug dealer, I would separate all of the sweets from the tubes and then make up a number of variety packs all containing about eight sweets each, which I duly wrapped…
The Young Entrepreneur My grandparent’s weekly visits were not only eagerly awaited due to the prospect of an afternoon of extreme confectionery indulgence; there was much more at stake from a young entrepreneur’s perspective. In addition to the outstanding selection of what seemed like dinner plate sized cream buns on offer, my generous grandparents also…
In The Beginning My first exposure to and experience of entrepreneurialism and that way of thinking and operating was a complete accident. At just ten years old I was already an avid small-time “on the side” entrepreneur, although I didn’t know it at the time of course. At the tender age of ten I barely…
What You Really Need Many startup “gurus”, books and new entrepreneurs themselves for that matter often focus on the big startup vision. This normally involves grand plans of heading up a large venture capital funded industry disruptor that will quickly redefine entire industries or generate completely new markets, with notions of becoming the next Facebook,…
The Startup Universe We live in a changing world where just about everyone wants to be starting something. We have evolved into a generation of savvy entrepreneurs, business owners and empire builders, who can bootstrap their startups with nothing more than a simple idea, a meagre self-funded budget and a bucket load of effort and…
Welcome to a brand new multi part serialisation containing extracts from the How To Become A Startup pro – On The Side book Series by james Kingham AKA The Online Startup Pro. We Are All Born Entrepreneurs It’s a sad fact of life that the majority of wannabe entrepreneurs will never get to fulfil their…
Many startups these days adopt an agile bootstrap approach. That’s to say they are small or solo boutique enterprises run and funded solely by the owner(s). As a bootstrap startup owner you will be required to wear many different hats and master many differing skills, including idea generation, sales, marketing, finance, product development, support, IT…