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The Ultimate Guide for Starting and Running a Business at Home

Up and Running

Now you’re certain you want to (and can legally) operate a business out of your home and have a plan in place, it’s time to knuckle down and get your business registered with the appropriate authorities. Legitimize your business operations. Find good business partners and people who will refer you. Make your business official.

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The Ultimate Work From Home Checklist

Up and Running

Now you’re certain you want to (and can legally) operate a business out of your home, it’s time to knuckle down and get your business registered with the appropriate authorities. Legitimize your business operations. Find good business partners and people who will refer you. Start doing guerilla marketing. Good lighting.

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How to Attract Talent to Your Start-up

www.inc.com

As an instant-messaging and social media service, Meebo never really had trouble finding and attracting talent. They offered employees referral bonuses, posted on job boards and committed themselves to so-called "guerilla recruiting." 500|5000 The 2010 Inc. 500|5000 List The 2010 Top Lists Inc. So were willing to pay for good talent."

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Nine Keys to Entrepreneurial Survival

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Guerilla Innovation — Chapter Thirteen. This post/chapter of Guerilla Innovation is about money and the concept of survival. Survival means you get creative about ways to avoid spending money, ways to trade instead of buy, ways to fund operations. My partner hung on and made a success — it took him two more years.

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How to Have the Best Opening Day Ever

Up and Running

With a plan in place for your opening day, you’ll be able to ensure that you get plenty of customers in the door and generate enough media buzz to keep bringing in business long after. Tom Smith of Insights From Analytics recommends doing PR outreach to local media and sharing your story. Get in early. Alert the press.

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Beware The Consultant

infochachkie.com

Basing a consultant’s compensation on the incremental revenue they generate is a great example of a deal that is on The Fringe (for other creative approaches to partnering, see Agreements on The Fringe). Thus, as your startup matures, many of your operational functions can be successfully outsourced. Get A Company on The Fringe.

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

portfolio operator VCs, e.g., Andreessen Horowitz, ff Venture Capital, First Round Capital, Google Ventures. Design, development, and digital media shops, sometimes just a few years old, are doing bigger and bigger projects and come bearing cash flow and that scarcest resource, talent. mentor VCs, e.g., most VCs. Rock Health).