Monthly Archives: February 2010

Part III: Starting Your Own Business In Less Than 3600 Words

By Andrew Starks | Published: February 24, 2010

In last week’s post, we covered the depressing topics of failure and venture capitalists. We continue this series by talking about pressure, partners and niches. Step 4: Along with Failure, Get to Know Pressure As we illustrated in parts of Step 3, you need pressure. Having a wife and kids is no excuse to not [...]

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Part II: Starting Your Own Business In Less Than 3600 Words

By Andrew Starks | Published: February 17, 2010

Last week I started this four part series on starting your business. I talked about the importance of being unemployable and becoming an unreasonable person. Hmm…. This week, we’ll continue the happy thoughts with… Step 3: Get to Know and Love Failure The only lessons that you ever truly learn come from failure. Since you’ve [...]

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Part I: Starting Your Own Business In Less Than 3600 Words

By Andrew Starks | Published: February 10, 2010

A friend of mine asked about starting his own business. All he really wanted to know was how to register a business name, which I thought as odd. Our approach to starting a business was: Sell the product Make the product Deliver the product, fixing it as you try to get it running. Make up [...]