Update on starting a business

About two months ago, in the post Starting a New Adventure,   I posted about forming an LLC with a friend as a hedge against the current dismal job market.  A lot has happened since then.  My friend was able to find a job.  He is woefully under-employed but, hey,  a job is a job.  I, [...]

Internet business opportunities – Are they real?

When you are unemployed as I am you spend a lot of time on the Internet. Much of it is spent looking for a job. Whether it is browsing company career sites,  pouring over the latest Monster posts, or trying to network on Linkedin I spend a lot of time on the web looking for [...]

Starting your own business

In one of my early posts, Being your own boss,  I talked about using this time of unemployment as an opportunity to look at starting your own business.  I have a former colleague who did just that. After getting laid off he looked around for something to do to earn some money.  What he found was that there [...]

Forming an LLC

I wrote a couple of posts ago that a friend and I are forming a company to do our own thing.  What I found out is that it is surprisingly easy.  In the state where I live it is a very simple process.  First, you need to decide on a business model.  There are several [...]

Starting a new adventure

I haven’t posted in a couple of days because I have been off following my own advice.  I am in the process of starting my own business with a friend.  The job market is still dismal and I am not going to sit around for who knows how long waiting for an offer.  If one [...]

Why wait: Reflections on Doing Your Own Thing

I was talking to my friend JT this morning.  He was relating a story to me about someone who had been out of work for over a year with no prospects.  As I was listening to his story I was thinking, “what is that guy waiting for?”  He could have been using that time to do his [...]