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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
When looking at the difference between countries with emerging and developing economies and those with advanced economies, a big area that sticks out is the way in which they make money. In looking at different countries, what type of industries are strongest? First level: Sell raw materials Selling raw materials is easy. Grow the trees, [...]