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Friday, November 23rd, 2007

3 Dates Forever Burned Into My Brain

Three dates will live in infamy for me: November 22, 2006, November 26, 2006, and December 2, 2006. Since today is November 22, 2007, one year later– last year’s experiences have been on my mind recently.
I’ll explain: November 22nd is the day our entire team was laid off from the tech startup I’d worked […]

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

Update: Project 2 The Entrepreneur Story

Image courtesy Timothy Totten.
So, very exciting news!
I’ve been editing The Entrepreneur Story project for several months, and to be honest, I don’t think I’ve ever worked on something so discouraging (will explain more later).
But, finally, today I sent out the nearly-ready draft to all of the authors, to get their very last revisions, as […]

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

An Update After 30 Days

Well, we made it to 30 days over at the Human Census project!
So, now what?
Typically, the “Hundred Dollar Business” projects are based on 3 specifications:

Spend $100 or less.
Use 30 days.
Learn something about good business principles.

Human Census was started on Jun 24th, with our Day 1 Question. I asked a question per day […]

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

Viral Marketing Tips

I’ve been running the Human Census experiment for 17 days now, and wanted to give you an update. So far, on our brand new site, www.humancensus.com, we’ve had 939 site views, 131 comments, and 17 daily questions.
Not bad. But on the other hand, not particularly amazing, either.
It has been fun to ask […]

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

Follow Up To The Essentials of Business Plans

Yesterday I posted about the critical elements of a business plan. I had a list of 50+ things you can include in your plan, but which are of varying importance.
So, here’s what I came up with, based on asking, “Can I delete this info & still have a good chance at getting $5 million […]