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Sep 24
Posted at 1:25 AM on September 24th, 2009 by Alex
Why be an entrepreneur?
If you caught my earlier post, you read that I’m currently in the middle of a pretty big career shift from full-time free-lancer, to full-fledged entrepreneur. But why? What are the benefits? What’s in it for us entrepreneurs?
Before anything, let’s get one thing straight: if you’re doing it for the money, go elsewhere. Sure: every once in a while someone gets lucky with an idea and strikes it rich. But this is a possibility very different from the norm. The vast majority of entrepreneurs spend years of their life barely scraping by before even getting to a level of income that stops the debt from accumulating. Most entrepreneurs make substantially less than they would have made as an employee, and even those who eventually do strike it rich take decades to get to that point.
So if it isn’t the money, what is it?
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Tags: business. entrepreneurship
Posted in Indie Life, business, favorites | 1 Comment »
Oct 22
Posted at 4:57 PM on October 22nd, 2008 by Alex
Today is a pretty big day.
Why? Because I’m launching my first non-profit project: We Design Change
After being involved in Blog Action Day 2008, I became pretty inspired by the huge levels of cooperation, networking, and just plain creativity throughout the blogosphere, but ESPECIALLY throughout the design communnity. We banded together over Twitter, we networked to keep our stories popular, we used our design skills to draw tons of attention to big issues, and we made our corners of the world look beautiful.
After seeing this awesome potential within the design community, I thought to myself that this HAS to be tapped and our efforts combined more often. We Design Change is the result of that realization.
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Tags: inspiration, we design change
Posted in Indie Life, design, favorites | 8 Comments »
Oct 22
Posted at 4:15 PM on October 22nd, 2008 by Alex
Remember that Blog Action Day Challenge? Well, Congrats: it came out to $123!
Sorry it’s taken so long to get the totals! I’ve been having some issues getting the true numbers for my RSS subscribers and new Twitter followers. It turns out FeedReader doesn’t keep any sort of accurate RSS reader totals — just a number that bounces depending on access to the feed. So, to correct for that, I’m going to take the HIGHEST RSS subscriber total I’ve seen in the last week (51) and use that.
So, here’s what the breakdown looks like:
- TOTAL RSS Subscribers: 51
- NEW Twitter Followers: (current [133] - starting [61]) = 72
- Total money to donate: $123
Congratulations. This is your donation as much as mine. A big shout out to all the new followers and subscribers that made this happen!
I’ll be writing the check and handing it over to the Hillsdale County Salvation Army branch in the next couple days. I’ll try to get some pictures or videos to put up here when I do
FINALLY, I was so inspired by Blog Action Day I’ve been working on a little (ok, actually it is really BIG) side project. Stay tuned: I’ll be inmasking it in my next post (later today).
Thanks again!
Tags: blog action day, donations, inspiration
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Oct 15
Posted at 10:50 PM on October 15th, 2008 by Alex
This post is part of Blog Action Day 2008. Today, over 12,000 blogs around the world are calling awareness to the topic of poverty, reaching an estimated audience of over 13 million readers. Join in at blogactionday.org
Blog Action Day 2008: Poverty - Use your Design Skills to Make a Difference
Ever feel like you are in a profession that doesn’t allow you to have a huge impact on some of the most important issues in the world? Designers can make anything beautiful and eye-catching, but what can they do to solve poverty? The answer is A LOT. Don’t be fooled by the doubts. Here are 10 ways designers can tap their creativity to make a BIG difference in world poverty. Now you have no excuse!
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Tags: blog action day, design, poverty
Posted in Indie Life, design, favorites, marketing | 3 Comments »
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