Lessons From Starting a Business, The Top Three Things I Learned This Last Year

August 31st, 2010Posted by admin

For first time entrepreneurs there is always much to learn. After a year in business, doing consulting and working on web projects I know I and my partners have learned a lot. Starting Innovative Algorithms Inc. has been a huge learning experience for myself and my partners that has proven as valuable as any college, [...]

Website of the Week: Microsoft.com

August 22nd, 2010Posted by admin

Gas logs, invoices, time sheets, planners. Every small business finds itself needing forms. One of the best sites we have found for form templates is Microsoft.com. The large library of user submitted forms and templates can save you a lot of time. For single use or in house use there is no reason to waste [...]

Summertime Musings

August 21st, 2010Posted by admin

How desperate are you right now in the economy? Seems to be a question I am hearing and being asked a lot these days. Some people disguise the question in nicer ways, trying to be all suave. The gist is the same though. I see a great focus on all the bad things happening in [...]

Website of the Week: Academicearth.org

August 16th, 2010Posted by admin

Education is important, be it from the school of hard knocks, or a true university. Academicearth.org gives you the best of each. Academicearth provides users with video lectures from universities such as Columbia, MIT, and Yale. If you are unsure about a subject or just want to up your skill level give this site a [...]

The 4-Hour Workweek: Must read for everyone.

August 11th, 2010Posted by admin

Work, most everyone wants to do less of it. Many people would be happy to get their hours down to a normal forty a week. What if you could take your workload down to four hours a week? In his book The 4-Hour Workweek, Timothy Ferriss teaches you exactly how to do that. Readers are [...]

Website of the Week: Business.gov

August 8th, 2010Posted by admin

When starting a business entrepreneurs want to do things the right way. This can sometimes be hard with all the government regulations and organizations that must be dealt with. Business.gov is an official federal website that works to clear up many of these questions. People aspiring to start a business should visit this site to [...]

Openoffice.org: Free Office Suite

August 2nd, 2010Posted by admin

Openoffice.org provides a powerful suite of Office products, all free of charge.  The Openoffice.org project is an open source project mainly funded by Oracle.  The suite includes database, document, and spreadsheet capabilities among others.  This software is a must have for anyone wanting to generate simple business documents without having to spend money.  With money [...]

Website of the Week: Entrepreneur.com

July 30th, 2010Posted by admin

So you want to start a business, where to start is often a big question. Entrepreneur.com is a great site for anyone thinking of starting a business. Entrepreneur provides information across many functional areas within a business that can prove useful for people of all backgrounds. They provide a great deal of basic information for [...]