Entrepreneur on SWiK

[from amaah] Meals and Wheels on Ecuador's Avenue of Volcanoes

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 15:05:03 -0700

street food entrepreneurship in Ecuador

Coopworks - An Open Source Member and Management Information System - Co-operative entrepreneurship

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:05:13 -0700

InnoCentive

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:51:49 -0700

Seth's Blog: Scarcity

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:00:35 -0700

Startups | Startups 100

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:53:24 -0700

BitNami :: Moodle

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:48:49 -0700

BitNami Moodle Stack is an easy to use installer for Moodle, which is a Course Management System that is designed using sound pedagogical principles to help educators create effective online learning communities. It can scale from one computer to a 50,000

MyInternetBusiness: Financial Freedom Is Closer Than You Think.

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:13:19 -0700

What you can look forward to here is the most POWERFUL compensation plan in the industry, the most versatile array of digital products, travel/vacation packages, and physical products, AND a marketing system that even a complete novice can plug into to earn money online!

Six Reasons to Build a Phone Coaching Business

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:50:02 -0700

The benefits of transition your face-to-face practice to a phone-based model are numerous. Here are six reasons to begin that transition today.

LinkedIn: Home

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:48:47 -0700

Club E Network - Club E Network

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:44:14 -0700

Changemakers | Open Sourcing Social Solutions

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:49:13 -0700

A Guide to earning an income from a Free and Open Source project

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:03:35 -0700

Henry Nicholas charged for Maintaining a warehouse full of coke, meth and ecstasy!

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:02:40 -0700

Henry Nicholas, co-founder of Broadcom, has been charged with bunch of stuff including maintaining a warehouse full of coke and ectasy…

This is funny, maybe he should make a DIY about how to make a secret room for drugs…

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Broadcom Corp. co-founder Henry T. Nicholas III was in custody Thursday on charges that he slipped ecstasy into the drinks of technology executives, maintained a warehouse to store cocaine and tried to conceal his illegal conduct with bribes and death threats.

The billionaire also is accused of committing conspiracy, securities fraud and other violations while he led the Irvine-based computer chip company.

A pair of indictments unsealed Thursday, one addressing the drug charges and the other allegations related to improper handling of backdated stock options, paint a bizarre picture. A successful entrepreneur, Nicholas is accused of using much of his fortune to fund drug parties in airplanes and luxury homes and to build a secret tunnel and room beneath his mansion in Laguna Hills.

[via gizmodo - nytimes]

Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:36:08 -0700

iWait.com

Wed, 28 May 2008 06:06:29 -0700

iWait.com is a social/professional network that offers job opportunities to everyone. Its like a Craiglist for hiring people! people put up profiles that are almost like a resumes with services that they offer. These services range from anywhere mowing lawns, baby-sitting, Painting, tutors, to even odd jobs such as waiting in line or designated drivers. We hope to create millions of young entrepreneurs on my site. By getting their foot in the door for business, we feel that we are satisfying the needs of entrepreneurs as well as the employers who has those jobs they haven’t had time to get around to. By doing this, its cheaper and you get to know more about who your are hiring.

[from amaah] Simplot: Farmboy who never went to high school turns potatoes into biggest fortune in Idaho

Tue, 27 May 2008 03:19:10 -0700

obituary of the man who invented the frozen french fry that made a fortune for McDonalds. File under rugged capitalism

User:arjieespina

Fri, 16 May 2008 17:19:15 -0700

User:cbonsobre

Fri, 16 May 2008 17:24:13 -0700

The 5 Stages of a Consumer Web Startup

Fri, 09 May 2008 11:17:15 -0700

In my years covering technology, I’ve gotten more than my fair share of pitches related to the latest consumer Internet startup. Thanks to this I’ve been able to witness what amounts to be a near-familiar life cycle for these companies. Not every company hits every step, but most of these will be familiar to those of you in the Silicon Valley Social Media/Web 2.0-Something trenches.

IN THE BEGINNING

One day an entrepreneur is chatting with his friends, gets an idea, writes about the idea on his or her blog, and then starts coding. A few weeks or possibly days, a beta — increasingly a euphemism for a not-fully-thought-out-product — emerges.

THE LAUNCH

Then the buzz builds and the company opens up the beta far and wide. Maybe TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, WebWorkerDaily or WebWare write about the product. Either way, this is the first traffic spike and the entrepreneur rejoices. The VCs come calling. If they don’t, the angels will certainly do a fly-by.

But eight weeks later reality sets in. The traffic stops growing or — worse yet– dives. The VCs stop calling and blogs start posting Alexa charts that look like ski slopes or tabletops. But as an ever-optimistic entrepreneur it’s time to regroup, gather your programmers, toss back some Red Bull and…

LAUNCH A SOCIAL NETWORK WIDGET

If the user adoption press releases, the widget and subsequent coverage can’t get your site growing again, it’s time for the big guns...the open API. Now you’re a platform! The startup gets a fresh round of publicity, maybe more exposure to new users, and the founder rejoices again. This time the money men get serious because you have shown them you can survive the Silicon Valley jungle and you have a Facebook strategy.

12 MONTHS LATER

Maybe the media is getting too insistent with their questions about how this service is supposed to make money. Maybe the bills from Amazon Web Services are getting too high, or the VCs are getting impatient. The blogs are back to posting unflattering Alexa numbers. Compete data backs those charts up! So it’s time for advertising.

If the startup is well-funded or has a famous founder, the ad unit might be something novel like a widget, pre-roll voice ads on a mobile phone, or Beacon. Otherwise it’s generally based on banners and Google AdWords with promises of more to come.

THE END IS NEAR

But selling online advertising is hard. If Google, Yahoo, AOL or Microsoft haven’t stopped by with a buyout, it’s time to consider reality. You could always try your hand as an ad network or merge with a competitor, but more than likely it’s time to sell that domain name and user base on eBay or quietly shut your doors. Better luck next time.

Wink - [Homepage]

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:40:57 -0800

BarCamp wiki - The password is c4mp.

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:39:22 -0800

The Glasshouse

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:04:27 -0800

Idealab

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:00:05 -0800

Plate-forme de blogs pour une communauté : Entreprise et Blogs - Quelles utilisations du web et des blogs pour une entreprise ?

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:34:52 -0800

Entrepreneurship Masters Program for Young Entrepreneurs

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:20:54 -0800

Master of Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology is an offering to all young entrepreneurs around the world to get trained in entrepreneurship, a better alternative to general master of business programs.

Internet Business Mastery: An Internet Marketing Podcast for Entrepreneurs

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:59:22 -0800

Micro Persuasion: How to Set Up a Portable Personal Nerve Center

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 12:58:17 -0800

Founder of JBOSS new venture

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:07:25 -0800

Founder of JBOSS new venture

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:55:31 -0800

Social Media as Personal Power

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 05:37:20 -0800

Chris Brogan spreads the good word on social media.