Is entrepreneurship anything more than shorts, sand, and margaritas?
I started MuseShark to teach others how to create muses. The mantra is “Empower Young Entrepreneurs.” So I’ve come up with some notes on how to find your market and then test a potential product with minimum-to-no costs. Your muse: How to find a market and test a product Find 1. Jot down what social, …
The rock star persona of entrepreneurship is so engrained in the American Dream that it’s in the ranks of baseball and McDonald’s. Who doesn’t dream of starting their own business, calling the shots, and making tons of cash? I remember not too long ago when I thought that I could use my computer smarts with …
All the bells and whistles of Hollywood in pure, unadulterated HD. For $5. That’s right. Thanks to Fiverr, you can get a lot more with an Abe Lincoln than just a $5 foot-long from Subway. Fiverr allows anyone to buy (or sell) gigs for five bucks. You can get everything from SEO reports to a …
18. I’m turning glorious 18 this Friday. It’s going to be a great natal year – I can already feel it. I’m going off to college soon in Cali, I’m writing a book, and I’m meeting some great people along the way. Perhaps some big things will happen for you, too; in this post I’m …
Remember that high school math class you hated? You had done fine in elementary school, but one day the material just stopped making sense. Maybe you missed class one day because you were sick, or maybe you just zoned out during the lesson. The reason you couldn’t make sense of it is because of the …
I’m sitting in my room and I have no idea what I’m going to do. I quit my job at the movie theater to trek around Nevada and California for the summer, and now I’m back home. I’d depleted most of my reserves on living expenses over the summer, and the need for cash just …
So you found a target niche and bought your domain name and hosting. Now what? You searched “start a blog,store,etc” and got bombarded with SEO, WordPress themes, content, and anything remotely related to online business. You’re having second thoughts about your muse because you’ve just experienced search overload and look like the mumbling idiot from …
Intrapreneurs are the new entrepreneurs! This has become a popular headline as well as a way to use the buzzword, “intrapreneur”. But what the heck is an intrapreneur? The term is a play on the word “entrepreneur” (obviously), and entered into our vocabulary circa 1970s. The definition, as well as the estimated origin date, …
Social entrepreneurship. It’s the cool thing to be doing these days if you’re an entrepreneur; everyone from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg is on board. PBS defined a social entrepreneur as: [One who] identifies and solves social problems on a large scale. Just as business entrepreneurs create and transform whole industries, social entrepreneurs act as …
I’ve been asked the same two questions a lot recently: Why do I blog? How do I make money? I blog because the blog allows me to meet incredible people I wouldn’t meet otherwise. For the most part, there’s not much money in blogging or affiliate advertising. Everybody and their grandma has a …
