That feeling that comes from being able to fire your boss and set out as an entrepreneur as the business mind behind your own home-based business is enough motivation to fuel the ship, so to speak.
It does take more than that, though, to be successful. Anyone, technically, can take advantage of a home business opportunity. There is a huge difference in taking advantage of a home business opportunity, running a home-based business and having a career as a successful home-based business entrepreneur. Aside from integrity, which was covered in a recent piece you should certainly review, there are plenty of other factors that determine where you will fall within these categories.
You want to be a successful business-man in the future…you envision that one day you will own a multi million dollar empire…but in your clutches today you have a very small business that you are running from the limited dimensions of your bedroom desk. Act as if you are the important CEO you want to be, and run your desk business with diligence, discipline, efficiency and “overtime” productivity. The defining elements of success start when you are down and out in the gutter.
Are there dinosaurs among us? If a new joint report from Regus and Unwired called VWork: Winning Strategies at Work is to be believed, yes. The report on the future of the office in an age of increasingly agile work surveyed 600 businesspeople along with several heads of global real estate. Of course, the lumbering beasts it identifies aren’t giant reptiles, but instead traditional corporate buildings, which the report claims are underutilized, inflexible and a bad fit for the work of today.
You might have heard of “Too big to fail.” At what point does a company become “Too big to succeed?” My post last week about Cisco killing the Flip elicited some input from some people who read the article. One of the people pointed me to an article on Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen of Forbes. The article is here. Allen is promoting his book Idea Man. Vanity Fair has a nice adaptation of the book. While the relationship between Allen and Bill Gates is interesting in itself, Allen also had some very interesting takes on the state of Microsoft.
In some novice investor circles there is a reasoning that companies with a novell business concept or idea tend to transfer that enthusiasm to the stock market. In other words, these companies have a cult-like following which gives the masses to invest in a company even when it is not making money. ZipCar fits into [...]
I have been following Cisco from a business point of view after I contributed information for stock buying to a friend. One of the issues I had indicated other than the up and coming networking companies giving Cisco a run for its money was the issue that the personal side of the business was shacky. [...]
When I first came across the TechCrunch article titled “What Every Entrepreneur Could Learn from Justin Bieber” I really did not pay that much attention to it. I knew there was a Justin Bieber movie out in theaters and I just thought this was link bait. It took someone else talking about the article that [...]
I am a frequent user and a big fan of Skype as evidenced by my several blog posts about the company and its products. To me though it is more than just a service. I have closely followed the company from its inception although at times it fell from my radar when there is something else occupying my attention. Recently I have been excited about Skype’s move to the iphone which allowed me to stop using my computer for calls and have Skype on the go. I use Skype primarily for international calls and I am a heavy paying user.
