Everything I need to know about startups, I learned from a crime boss

Every Entrepreneur or Business Owner should read this artical!!

Don’t shit where you eat

“When someone’s doing something for the money, people can sense it, like a desperate lover. It’s a turnoff.” – Derek Sivers, Anything You Want

If it don’t make dollars, it don’t make sense

“A business without a path to profit isn’t a business, it’s a hobby.” – Jason Fried, Rework

Be a badass

“There’s only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that’s being so good at what you do that they can’t ignore you.” – Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game


http://gigaom.com/2012/01/07/desantis-startups-crime-boss/

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I have pasted this onto my site www.warehouse-it.co.za - currently value $85.00 according to them, now I will work the site with their methodology over 48 hours and see if I can double or triple the value!!

R1 Million Challenge

I know and have read various blogs regarding earning a million rand in a year out of online web advertising / passive incomes etc., we do this (plus) already out of our online systems just developed and its boring / stressfull and frustrating me as a developer!

My challenge to myself is too earn that figure in 4 weeks from http://www.warehouse-it.co.za/, I have registered two aditional site names to compliment the business plan to do this, I have put aside a development budget to finish the application and a marketing budget to advertise the site on various strategic web sites and other marketing media!

Now can I do it, this is the million rand question and no it will be done only in rands, no playing around in forex conversions (for now!), lets see if the SA market is ready for something different!

Any other web site owner had thoughts on this line or maybe has a web application they think can earn this type of advertising and user signup revenue in 4 weeks?