Since starting to work for myself, I’ve watched carefully other people ideas. I’ve watched even more carefully which ideas worked, and which websites got sold. A great place for observing this is Flippa. Flippa is an online marketplace to buy and sell websites. It turns out it’s a burgeoning industry with established buyers and sellers tracking [...]
I come from a non-english speaking country (and quite well-known for not speaking english: France). Most of my online information sources are in english, for the sheer amount of fantastic blogs, communities and magazines available. That includes information about SEO, entrepreneurship and online marketing. You can read a crazy amount of strategies and tactics that [...]
I’m a data junkie. When my peers wanted to become singers or doctors , I wanted to become a statistician. I was spending hours and hours as a kid reading about economy statistics and making up my own countries. I know, I would have been worried about myself too. So, it doesn’t come as a [...]
I’ve recently started to work on a new startup idea. When I told it around me, I got lots of different answers. Some were positive, but most were negative. It seems talking to people is actually a great way to understand why your idea WON’T WORK. If you have ideas, people will find flaws in [...]
How to get on the first page of Google? Short answer: with hard work! If you want to know the long answer, keep reading In case you don’t understand any of this, you should check out the beginner’s guide to SEO from SEOMoz. A case study on getting to the first page of Google My [...]
Lately, I got this idea of making a website providing gift certificate templates. I selected this niche because: there’s a decent number of searches: Google Adwords reports “gift certificate templates” is searched 60000 times a month. Plus there are an number of alternative searches: “printable gift certificates”, “gift voucher templates”, “online gift certificates” etc. So [...]
Who is this book for? This book was written as a handbook for software developers who want to start their own software business, and doing so without requiring outside funding. Key points Chapter 1: The chasm between developer and entrepreneur In this chapter, the author suggests that having a product idea is a wrong reason [...]
