One of the more heart-warming stories to zoom around the Internet lately involves a young man, his dying grandmother, and a bowl of clam chowder from Panera Bread. It’s a little story that offers big lessons about service, brands, and the human side of business — a story that underscores why efficiency should never come at the expense of humanity.
So you want to build an app, construct your dream gadget or become the next Steve Jobs. No matter what entrepreneurial visions you may want to venture, to be an entrepreneur you must be able to roll with the punches and understand that failure is a part of the process since 82% of the time you will.
This does not mean that your success isn’t awaiting you, but first you need to understand what it takes to be an entrepreneur and the risks and rewards that come with turning a vision into a reality. Money will never be the motive as to why you take the risk and increase your debt to ensure that what you want to see birthed is born, it will be built upon your passion and ambitions, then and only then, will you see results.
What do you do most of the time you are online? Apart from reading hongkiat.com that is. Blogging, designing, emailing, gaming, pinning, reading, socializing, surfing, watching videos, writing reviews… take your pick. Even when we’re not in front of the personal computer or laptop, we may have a phone on one ear, and a tablet on the other arm.
After a long time of being on my “must-read” book list, I finally started reading The Art of Non-Conformity by Chris Guillebeau. The book is all about “Setting Your Own Rules, Living the Life You Want, and Changing the World.”
And I gotta say, I can’t put it down.
Seriously, this is the only book that has ever caused me to miss my train stop because I was so into it I wasn’t paying any attention to anything else.
But all train-missing aside, here’s why I love The Art of Non-Conformity.
It helped me realize the real reason I love being an entrepreneur.
Criticism can tear you apart, but only if you allow it to do that. Accepting criticism is an essential part of improving one’s skill. A person always has to face his own share of criticism. The best kind are those who take criticism in their stride, and learn to live with it. It is a lot difficult than it sounds.
Your information is for sale to all kinds of different entities.
Thankfully, there’s an easy way to remove it from the places where companies harvest it.
Safe Shepherd has been helping people protect their privacy since being founded in October 2011.
For a very agreeable price of free, the web service will help you take your info off the grid.
We took it for a test drive this morning.
Technology has advanced dramatically since the days of the Baby Boomers so much so, that all of our history’s milestones such as radio, television, print and recorded media are now all accessible in one place, the Internet.
This massive increase has exploded an array of Technology, from various sizes of laptops, sleeker desktops, tablets and smart phones. These gadgets are very useful in cutting down the amount of time we spend in one place while on the web as well as enabling us to keep in touch wirelessly while on the go.
Every person has an implicit hourly rate of value they create, in business and beyond. Determining that number is tough, but if you don’t have an estimate—you don’t have a framework within which to make decisions. SeatGeek founder Jack Groetzinger explains.
Let’s use a business example to illustrate hourly rate of value. Perhaps Bob, SeatGeek’s (fictional) traveling salesman, provides $150 of value for every hour that he’s working. If Bob catches the flu and is forced to spend a day hunched over a toilet rather on the road selling, then the DCF of future earnings decreases by $1,500.
You all know Steve Wozniak. If you’re using a computer today is partly because this man created some really awesome things. You know, like changing the world with the other Steve. He’s here now to answer your questions about what made him take his path.
You’ve built a team of top-notch employees, but can you make them think like entrepreneurs? Here’s how to create a source of profitable business ventures that keeps on giving.
