Yes, zoning laws generally frown on improperly zoned home businesses (although they rarely ever actually enforce it unless a neighbor or homeowner's association complains). However, there is a ridiculously simple workaround for 100% online businesses like yours (and mine) - get a private mailbox...
Stop attending events and start making stuff. You'll quickly find out if there's any demand and if you care about it enough to do it for 10+ years.
You would include all those lines in your revenue. Typically this looks like: Receipts: [full cash inflows] Fees: [payouts to vendors] Gross Receipts: [subtract] This ALL does into the Revenue category, so that your stated revenue is indeed net of fees, but you can see how it breaks out to und...
First of all, get an NDA in place. Then discuss with the potential partner what type of resources they can provide you to assist with time to market and after launch. From resources to operations to marketing, etc; what is the overall sense of the partnership.
I have always wondered about that model when it's not vertical and anyone can sell anything Digital, Physical or Service. (Gumroad, Selify, etc) Marketplaces tend gain traction faster when they are vertical and specific. My best word of advice would be to select the vertical that's bringing in t...
Find a business similar to the one you wish to open. Speak to the owner and make a wholesale pricing agreement. ie: he gives you a discount and produces work for you that you provide to your client. Go find customers and sell the services. If you can sell enough services for it to make sense t...
As I understand , you have domain expertise in travel industry and have a unique idea that you think will is needed in the market. I also assume that you did some study and came to conclusion that website is what you need (Not mobile first .. re-think !!) If you are a first time found I would s...
Hi, Membership site is a great idea.. I hear about it a lot at the Mixergy Interview. So many signle founders who are bootstarpped started with Membership.,.. I have listened to atleast a dozen of them.. Now the fun part -- Most of them who started with wordpress were not happy. It is a good wa...
I've worked on large civilian and defense projects for the Federal Government while working for two top-tier management/technology consulting firms and one smaller technology consulting firm. Have you considered approaching some of the big management/technology consulting firms that do most of th...
Being from Denmark, I had to look up disposable books as a concept. It lead to an interesting link, I wanted to share, that describes disposable books as "the dregs of the book infrastructure" http://craigmod.com/journal/ipad_and_books/. So I assume, that your market is in some sense a niche mark...