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I have started businesses in more than a few places now and I was thinking it would be really cool to have an unofficial bloggers guide to the legalities of starting a business in various places around the world. Current country guides: Denmark Panama Argentina I think would be great if other entrepreneurial bloggers …
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Jeff Cornwall who I do respect writes in his article Short-cut to Trouble. It is about the importance of revenue forecasting. (Via Ken ) Accurate revenue forecasting is one of the single most important steps an entrepreneur takes in planning for a new venture. And yet, we find that most entrepreneurs do not spend …
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I use the EasySpeedy for my hosting. They already provide the most transparent hosting plans and hosting contract I have seen, but they continue to impress me. I’ve got 2 servers there and will put my 3rd one there if need be. Apparently one of their clients where spamming with spoofed IP addresses from other …
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I don’t know if I should laugh or cry, but it is just typical really of why there are so few large successfull web based services in Europe. The project, called Quaero, found itself in the spotlight following remarks last week by French President Jacques Chirac in a speech laying out his agenda for France in 2006. “We …
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I am constantly getting questions emailed to me about LLCs, Incs, Ltds etc. because of the article Legal structures for bootstrappers I wrote. One misunderstanding many people have is about limited liability. To understand Limited Liability you first must understand that it was originally introduced to protect the …
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I’ve been writing these anti patterns since I started this blog and in honor of Evhead’s 10 rules for web startups I wanted to create an overview over them mostly for my own sake but also for newer readers of my blog. An Anti Pattern is often talked about in the software development world. WikiPedia says the following: …
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Why do we do it? We keep writing legal language to satisfy non existant lawyers that none of can afford anyway. I am not a lawyer (hmm I smell an evil recursive argument coming along), but I think a court (at least in common law countries) looks more at the intention than the language. This is why Click through …
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Just got hit by another typical Bootstrapping Anti Pattern, I have been writing using “We” and not “I”. It is such a bad habit for me, but I keep catching myself writing “We …” when I am writing text for my businesses. I am but myself so why should I write “We offer a secure service.”. I have just gone through a little …
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Seth has a fantastic article about Understanding Local Max that should probably be read by all small entrepreneurs. I is about how you put effort into something and you reach a point where the effort pays off, but eventually starts decreasing. His point is that when you reach what he calls the local max, which is that …
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I wanted to read up about the new features of Mysql 5.0 and I was hit by a registration wall . Whenever I go to a site where I have to register to read their marketing spiels I immediately switch off. It even makes me angry. It all reminds me of my days at AltaVista when the marketing department where busy inventing …
