be an Entrepreneur

i’ve learned that starting is easy. anyone can start a business. sustaining/growing the business is key. it’s this you have to keep working at. it’s tough and I’m still learning…

I would love to start my own business. I frequently have ideas, am learning quite a bit at my current job, but don’t think I have all the tools I need yet to be successful.

I want to start my own business. Why?
-businesses i’ve worked for are incredibly inefficient and full of people who talk as if they have no time to blink but yet nonone of them are so busy that they have to work overtime.
-I’m not passionate about what i’m doing. i dont want to work to pay the bills. we work during most of our waking hours. why not love it!
-I get pigeon holed. I’m an accountant so i get to do accountant things. I want to get my hands wet in many areas: marketing, management, accounting, finance, customer service, etc.
-I’m under utilized. i look for things to do and while doing so come up with better ways of doing things but i guess they don’t want to change or they don’t want to be upstaged.
-i’m constantly thinking about business ideas. I love it and i think i would love being an entrepreneur.

Whats holding me back?
Nothing really. i do need to get quite a bit of financing which will be quite difficult. i also need to make sure and get all of the city permits and adhere to all of the ordinances but that shouldnt be too difficult.

If anyone is reading this and hates their job:

think about all of your passions and figure out how to make money at it and DO IT. I watch an awesome show on CNBC called the Big Idea and it features about 5 entrepreneurs who tell their story. you should watch this show. i guarantee you will have trouble sleeping after watching it because it will inspire you and you’ll be thinking about business ideas instead of sleeping. anyway, i’ve seen some pretty amazing ideas and some pretty stupid ideas that make me wonder how they can be making money. so i’ve come to the conclusion that anything can be sold if you are good at marketing and customer service. obviously you need the backend stuff going for you like operations but the product isnt really important as long as it does what it says it does and doesnt break. make a quality product and market the product. there a market for anything. seemingly. you may have to create the market. seriously. i’ve seen some stupid products whose company’s are making millions. why not you?

for a good book at going from ‘working for the man’ to ‘working for yourself’, check out Entrepreneurship 101 from Trump University. now, i’m not one to buy things because of the person endorsing it. actually, i hesitated picking up this book because of the Trump University title. however, it is an excellent book. way better than business plan for dummies.

I apolgize if this is too lengthy.

OK. Targ8 is my pet project outside of my working hours and raising a family. Its a search engine that uses the power of google but also has a custom search directory via a drop down menu that can prioritise other peoples websites. If any of you enterpreneurs own business websites, I am happy to add your sites, so simply visit the add url option on the targ8 website.

Anyway to date we started with a simple custom search engine, which you can see via www.archive.org on how targ8.com used to look. (Useful site if you want to see old websites like boo.com that went bust years ago).

We now have targ8 buttons that link you straight to other searchable sites. 43things will be added soon. The idea is to become the default homepage for people who love the whole web2.0 thing and social search sites, but cannot be bothered to build their own custom homepage.

We are listed on ranking.com and are more popular than the UK supermarket site ‘Somerfield’ after only a few months, so something is working.

Problem is we are not graphic designers so I am sure the site could look a whole lot better. Anyway, heres to a successful venture I hope….

A person who organizes, operates, and assumes the risk for a business venture.
A risk-taker who has the skills and initiative to establish a business.

I have a sideline in addition to a salaried job. I would like to bring the sideline to full time.

It has already been 12 months since I quit very high paying good job in an amazing MNC and jumped in with my two friends to build a company from ground up.

Its as hard as they say it is and also easy than what they make it out to be. Im still no guru there neither are we profitable, we will definitely be soon. But then for all its worth, the joy of holding the first salary from your own company… NOTHING in the whole corporate world can ever come even near to that feeling.

For all the time just spent doing, thinking and redoing and rethinking, this is just amazing. And the emotional rollercoaster this experience can be … Im speechless.

I want to be an Entreprenuer. Thing is, I don’t know where to start. Any ideas? I’m into music, mainly hip-hop. I was thinking of being in that area of work. Start my own record company maybe. For now, its just a dream. Wonder if I’ll be there one day or not. Who knows..

...we’re not loads further down the road than we were before. At least we’ve got a lot of ground work done, we have systems in place for invoicing, quoting etc etc. They say most companies that fail fail within 6 months, it’s been since July 24th which is about 2 weeks away from 6 full months. We’re not dead yet. So we’re not doing too badly. Need to work more though…

I actually want to become an entrepreneur later in life. When I am around 40 or 50. I already have the idea. I want to teach first, though.

This has become quite a thing. It’s taking 7 days a week and most of the available hours in those days to get this off the ground. We’ve started out as IT support (hardware/software installation, training and website design/construction). We’ve been going about 2 weeks (?) and been busy every day. We’ve got two large (for us) contracts already and hoping to pull in a really big job in a couple months; one that requires us to hire some people to share the work load. This isn’t easy. But still very recommendable.