July 2011
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Risk Taking and Entrepreneurship
Taking risks is something closely related to entrepreneurship and business start-ups. Below I’ve outlined some basic steps to look at for anyone considering to quit a normal job and start a business. 1. Define Risk According to Wikipedia risk is “the potential that a chosen action or activity (including the choice of inaction) will lead to a loss (an undesirable outcome)”. So...
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How to Pick a Co-Founder
As discussed in my last post, there are many potential benefits coming from starting a business together with a co-founder. However, to get these benefits you need to pick the right people to work with. I believe some of the most important qualities to look for are: Trust
This is probably the most fundamental part in any sort of collaboration. You need to feel that the people you are working...
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The Benefits of Finding a Co-Founder for Your...
Do you want to get your own business going? Maybe you are in the start-up process already? Are you doing it alone? If you are, you might want to consider finding a co-founder. There are many potential benefits coming from working with a co-founder rather than on your own. Some of these are:
Team Spirit We are all fundamentally social creatures, and our outstanding ability to communicate and...
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Changing the World from Your Living Room - The...
As I have started to look more into how to run online-only business projects I just realized that there should be a lot of opportunities for applying the same principles in the non-profit area. You might have considered to go abroad to some less privileged country at some time in your life to teach English, computer skills or any other discipline that there is always a big need for. Fewer people...
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Running Project Meetings Online
Have you ever wondered why companies still spend huge amounts on flight tickets for executives and company representatives to see clients and employees in geographically remote locations? In today’s online world there are video conferences, screen sharing and cloud computing making distance communication more sophisticated than ever. Still companies spend lots of money for people to meet...
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Some of the Better (Free) Cloud Based Apps for...
There are quite a few great tools for business project work available online for free. Below I have summarized some of the better ones.
Teamworkpm.net A project management tool that is extremely useful for any start-up project. You can add several projects, and in each project you can create several task lists and assign each task to one or several team members. There is also a calendar...
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Where to Find Co-Founders
Great businesses are built by teams. We all want to achieve great things, but we will reach there only by the support from others. You can’t pull yourself up to success but you need to be lifted up there by people around you – managers, co-workers, co-founders and customers. Since starting a new business is a rather tough challenge and in most cases requires a lot of willpower and stamina,...
