http://www.diigo.com/user/Joel/entrepreneur Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:49:36 -0000 Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:49:36 -0000 http://www.springwise.com/ <p></p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/entrepreneur' rel='tag'>entrepreneur</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/ideas' rel='tag'>ideas</a> </p><p><strong>Posted by:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel'>joel</a></p> Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:49:36 -0000 http://jsomers.net/street.html <p></p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/entrepreneur' rel='tag'>entrepreneur</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/hr' rel='tag'>hr</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/startup' rel='tag'>startup</a> </p><p><strong>Posted by:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel'>joel</a></p> Sun, 30 Mar 2008 06:31:14 -0000 http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206904080 <p></p><p><strong>Comments:</strong><ul><li>one person lifestyle business<br /> <small>posted by <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel'>joel</a></small></li></ul></p><p><strong>Highlights and Sticky Notes:</strong><p><div class="content">"The no-employee business springs from the notion that there are two spheres: a manager/contributor sphere and a passion sphere," said Terri Loier, founder of <a href="http://www.workingsolo.com" target="new">WorkingSolo.com</a>, a Website devoted to the challenges facing one-person businesses. There are many people who love to live in their passion sphere. They really don't want to build a big business by hiring lots of other people --although that doesn't necessarily mean they don't think big in terms of dollars."</div></p><p><div class="content">Call them <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifestyle_business" target="new">lifestyle businesses.</a> People-less enterprises. Solo entrepreneurs. Workers like Bradbury are becoming increasingly common as the Internet matures, software-as-a-service (SaaS) is more reliable, outsourcing becomes more commonplace, and customers and user communities begin to shoulder more of the work of keeping operations going. Such companies get big results by thinking small -- from an organizational perspective, that is. From a revenue perspective, they're quite ambitious.</div></p><p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/entrepreneur' rel='tag'>entrepreneur</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/startup' rel='tag'>startup</a> </p><p><strong>Posted by:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel'>joel</a></p> Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:26:45 -0000 http://www.16thletter.com/2008/02/25/10-less-than-great-personality-traits-of-entrepreneurs <p></p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/entrepreneur' rel='tag'>entrepreneur</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/personality' rel='tag'>personality</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/startups' rel='tag'>startups</a> </p><p><strong>Posted by:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel'>joel</a></p> Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:09:41 -0000 http://www.brucejudson.com/frombook.html <p></p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/book' rel='tag'>book</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/entrepreneur' rel='tag'>entrepreneur</a> </p><p><strong>Posted by:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel'>joel</a></p> Fri, 03 Aug 2007 21:30:17 -0000 http://blog.sina.com.cn/u/4a4b47f1010008ba <p></p><p><strong>Highlights and Sticky Notes:</strong><p><div class="content">年轻的时候看《西游记》，特别喜欢看大闹天宫时期的孙悟空，觉得他好威风，上天下海，无所不能，谁都奈何他不得，真是个名副其实的“齐天大圣”呢！特别不喜欢西天取经时期的孙悟空，真的好笨！一个老鼠精，能让他无可奈何；一个老牛精，也能把他置于死地。遇到困难，不是去找观音菩萨，就是去求玉皇大帝，好窝囊，好没志气！创业之后，忽然对《西游记》有了新的认识：取经之前的孙悟空，只是个单打独斗的破坏分子；取经之后，他身负使命，已经是创业团队的实际负责人啦。一个独立的职业人士，他只负责自己相关的业务，业务能力是他最重要的能力，在这个范畴内，他有充分的展示机会和施展的空间，很容易成为一个个体英雄。一个创业者，无形间他的责任和需要负责的范畴大了百倍不止，这个时候，所需要的综合能力已经远远超出他自身的专业能力，单打独斗个人英雄主义已经不能适合他新的角色了。他现在需要的是，如何充分利用内部和外部各种资源和人脉，帮助自己解决自己没有能力解决的问题和困难。</div></p><p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/entrepreneur' rel='tag'>entrepreneur</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/%E5%88%9B%E4%B8%9A' rel='tag'>创业</a> </p><p><strong>Posted by:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel'>joel</a></p> Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:41:34 -0000 http://jkanstyle.com/2006/08/17/actual-lessons-from-kiko <p></p><p><strong>Highlights and Sticky Notes:</strong><p><div class="content"><strong>Hire Slow, Fire Fast.</strong> Picking the right people is life and death for your company. We hired two people for Kiko. One of them (Rich White, our interface designer) was awesome; everything I could have asked for and more: self motivated, entrepreneurial, competant, hard working, and very smart. However, one of our hires turned out to be a huge mistake: he basically spun his wheels, didn’t complete anything, and left for months at a time without word. Working with someone like this can easily make working on your company not very fun at all. If you have any reservations about someone at the outset, you should probably not hire them.</div></p><p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/entrepreneur' rel='tag'>entrepreneur</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/kiko' rel='tag'>kiko</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/startup' rel='tag'>startup</a> </p><p><strong>Posted by:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel'>joel</a></p> Tue, 22 Aug 2006 00:15:13 -0000 http://startupguide.typepad.com/startup_guide/2005/09/relevent_to_ent.html <p></p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/entrepreneur' rel='tag'>entrepreneur</a> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel/startup' rel='tag'>startup</a> </p><p><strong>Posted by:</strong> <a href='http://www.diigo.com/user/joel'>joel</a></p> Thu, 02 Mar 2006 02:21:30 -0000 60