Goal: Building a Profitable Business from Scratch
Over the past few years I’ve been trying to start a variety of businesses but have never really hit a success. As someone who loves reading and studying business, it’s getting kind of embarrassing, so this year’s resolution is to build a business from scratch with no less than $1k in monthly revenue. My plan of [...]
The $100k Reason You Need To Open Your Own Online Store
Ever thought about opening your own e-commerce store? I think most people with an Internet connection have, after all, what’s not to love about shipping millions of dollars worth of products around the world while you sit at home in your pyjamas (or other choice of clothing)? Pyjamas aside, starting an e-commerce store is exciting [...]
Why I’m Staying With SkyClerk Instead Of Switching To Xero
Earlier this week I received a promo email from Xero offering free use of their service until May of this year. It makes sense for me to switch to Xero. After all it’s founded in New Zealand so is suited to our accounting standards, it can pull transactions directly from my NZ bank account and [...]
Change of plan: Learning Django instead of Ruby on Rails
I mentioned previously on this blog that I was going to start learning Ruby on Rails. I’d been a bit busy since then so haven’t had time to get started, but in-between now and then I’ve had multiple recommendations (both on the web and from people in person) that I should start off learning Python [...]
Don’t Worry, There’s Still Money In Selling Physical Products
Got an great idea for a physical product? As a rebuttal to my previous article You’ll Make More Money If You’re In The Software Business, I thought it’d be worth stressing that there is still a lot of money to be made selling physical products. The start up costs are higher and unlike selling digital [...]
Why I decided to learn Ruby on Rails instead of outsourcing
“Find out what you’re good out and outsource the rest” This is very common advice these days. We obviously all have limited time available to us and if you’re not a programmer but you need some code written, the best plan is to outsource it, right? It makes sense and it could mean your project [...]
How Tracy Learnt Programming & Built Her First Web App In 6 Weeks
I’m a sucker for any entrepreneurial success story. To me, such stories are entertaining and insightful and I wish more movies were made about entrepreneurs! [See 2 footnotes below] Although learning to code and building software by yourself isn’t strictly an entrepreneurial success story, it is definitely classed in a very similar category (at least [...]
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