SelfEmployment.ca is back. Given that we’re in the midst of the single biggest economic meltdown since the Great Depression, there are bound to be more people looking to self-employment as a vehicle toward their own economic security.
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Considering Self-Employment?
Many good companies started as a self-employment venture, where one or more individuals ardently poured all that is necessary into becoming successful entrepreneurs. However, self-employment is not for everyone. No one should know this better than you if you are planning to become an entrepreneur. Knowing yourself will make the difference between [...]
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Everybody wants to be a work-from-home Internet start-up
We can’t all be self-employed webmasters, although I’m sure we’ll all use the internet as a tool to further our businesses. But I think people who are outside the industry seem to liken “the internet” as a type of Shangra-La place where the streets are paved with gold and everybody can launch an internet start-up [...]
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Necessity as the mother of entrepreneurship
Mark Hendrickson on Techcrunch’s Will the Credit Crunch Inflate the Internet Bubble? notes a survey of over 800 mortgage and real estate professionals (presumably in danger of, or recently having lost their jobs in the subprime blow up and credit crunch), found that 56% intend to start a business and 14% had already started.
While the [...]
The Four Horsemen part 2: Real Estate Flipping
Back in the summer I started a four part series The Four Horsemen of the BYOB Apocalypse, where “BYOB” means “Be Your Own Boss”. Briefly, the four horseman of self-employment doom are:
Daytrading
Real Estate Flipping
Forex
Blogging
Today is part II of the series, “Real Estate Flipping” and why, to paraphrase AC/DC “It’s harder than it looks…It’s a long [...]
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