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Category Archives: Entrepreneurship
All It Takes Is Persistence
My roughest year was, without a doubt, 2007. I had quit college after just five weeks and had barely settled down before I started having gallbladder attacks. The resulting surgery forced me into whatever work I could get to pay off the hospital bill. In my case, this work came in the form of two…
Idea Idolatry: Letting Go of Ineffective Ideas No Matter How Much You Like Them
Tibetan Buddhists have this tradition of crafting mandalas out of crushed and dyed stones. They spend weeks drawing out very specific geometric measurements for the mandala and then, starting from the center and moving outwards, a team of monks create intricate designs and patterns one section at a time using the simplest tools. To any…
What Everybody Should Know About Working Online
Long time, no see! Don’t worry, Wage Slave Rebel hasn’t been abandoned. Not by a long shot! In the last month or so, I’ve really been kicking some ass in the way of creating an awesome web design business (called Idea Anarchy — Feel free to ‘Like’ it on Facebook!) and that’s why you haven’t…
Stop Enabling
This is a guest post by JC Hewitt, founder of Fail Often and contributor to NYC 3.0, a new site covering startups in NYC. Bad habits end themselves without outside support. Every alcoholic has a small network of little people keeping them running. It’s usually the romantic partner who ensures that the ne’er-do-well gets out…
The Top 3 Most Successful Online Business Models
Most people have this idea (thanks to scammy late-night infomercials and cheesy books) that the internet is the ultimate get-rich-quick scheme. Find a keyword here, write a blog post there, throw in an affiliate link or two and… BAM! You’re a millionaire! If this is what you believe about internet business, you’ll be sorely disappointed….