Great Article on How to Start a Business for Free!

Christopher Null has an excellent article in a recent article in PC World entitled "How to Start a Business for Free".  In this article, Null updates many of the answers to the basic questions explored by Tim Ferris in his best seller The 4-hour Workweek.  "How to Start a Business for Free" is an essential read for anyone thinking about starting a business.


Excerpts from the article "How to Start a Business for Free" by Christopher Null in PC World:


"Everything from raising money to finding staff to getting the word out about your business has evolved with the times, even if your wallet hasn't.

How do you start a business today with practically nothing besides a good idea and a lot of free time? By following this advice."

"Writing a business plan is for suckers. Today the hottest way to raise money for your startup--provided that you don't need a whole lot of it--is with Kickstarter, a crowdsourced fundraising (aka "crowdfunding") system that can help you collect any sum from a few hundred bucks to almost a million."

"Going into the world of invention and manufacturing? Have a genius idea for a new class of product--but no idea how to get it built on the scale required for selling to the Walmarts of the world? Offshore manufacturing is now a viable option for even small shops . . . ."

Are you interested, yet?  If so, read the entire article by clicking here.  This article may allow you to change your life by starting your own business.  This may be the Cheese you were scrambling for - Good Cheese!

This is a Good Article: Eight Ways to Make a Million

This article from Kiplinger is a keeper.  How can you miss with a title like "Eight Ways to Make a Million"?  You can't. 


I just picked up one of Seth Godin's books, Tribe.  One of the things that Godin writes about  that resonates with me is the thought process of why most of us do not follow up on starting our own businesses.  In essence, Godin writes that a great many of us have good to excellent ideas but fear stifles us from acting on those ideas.  He explains that this is not just a fear of failure or even a fear of bankruptcy.  According to Godin, the fear that stifles us is the fear of criticism.  The fear that others will laugh at our ideas or point out how stupid our ideas are. And ultimately we fear that should we fail then others will really humiliate us.  


You should consider reading this book:

Who wants to be the guy in the movie Office Space that comes up with the "Jump to Conclusions" game idea? What a confused loser - remember he thought he was in an enviable situation after a car accident that left him in a body cast and with a halo brace screwed into his head.  I'll bet a lot of our best ideas are never put into action because deep down we fear that we might be that guy.

This Kiplinger article with 8 examples of people that made a million dollars from their ideas ought to give you real perspective of what could happen when your ideas are acted upon.