Entrepreneur

Navigate your next real estate investment with BiggerPockets

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

Around this time last year, I wrote several posts on emerging entrepreneurs and their respective companies.  Since then, they’ve all met with the same financial crisis gripping everything from our stock markets to our labor and housing markets.  I’ve been thinking about writing a follow up post and will do so.  Right now, I want [...]

Practice ownership with a portfolio

Monday, August 31st, 2009

If your plans to start a company require an investor and you’ve never purchased a stock, please do so now. Start a portfolio, and even with small purchases of public company stock, you’ll better understand the role of your angel investor or venture capitalist. You’ll better understand what they’re looking for and what your business [...]

On feedback and using it to your advantage

Monday, January 5th, 2009

I’ve been struggling with the direction of Enter Venture for a few weeks now.  At it’s outset, Enter Venture was designed to be about new entrepreneurs, web applications, events, books, etc. — anything that would help make the entrepreneurial process more transparent. Recently, I’ve gotten away from that.  I’d gotten away from writing about tools [...]

Zdonk to offer film scripts for investment, ownership and professional production

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

ZDONK, an early startup set to open its doors this spring, plans to create a market for new comedy movie scripts in a step towards democratizing the movie-making and investment process.  Once enough investors purchase shares of a script, ZDONK will guarantee its production and distribution and investors will reap what the movie earns at [...]

Ativiti to bring templating to project management (and definition)

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

Ativiti, a still private, new project management tool, will help you figure out your next project and get moving on it. Sometimes, the biggest barrier to starting a project is knowing all of the steps from point A to point B. For example, how do you start a blog? How do you plan a trip? [...]