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When asking someone what they do you often hear “I work for Apple/Microsoft/IBM as a software engineer” or you hear them say “I’m a doctor/attorney for such-and-such company.” On occasion you’ll hear someone say, and somewhat with pride, “I own my own car detailing business.” At the more aggressive person they’ll say “I’m a serial entrepreneur!”

What’s a serial entrepreneur? That’s someone that has started a company and grew it until another company bought them out. In some cases, they failed and have started again. And that’s the good thing. They keep going and learn from their failures and move on.

But what I recently heard by someone was they called themselves a “Parallel Entrepreneur.” While I could figure it out myself, I had to ask what he meant by it.

He stated that he had three companies that he was working on building and was looking to add more.

So there you have it. As an entrepreneur you are a parallel entrepreneur when you have two or more companies that you are building and growing.

So, a parallel entrepreneur builds multiple streams of income. Nice.

Is this what you are striving for?

Hi all,

I’m not going to post today but I thought I’d give you a chance to tell your story about using a Mac in your startup. Tell the truth and keep it clean, ’cause we all want to hear how you’re doing.

Kevin

I can’t say this any better. Napoleon Hill’s comments from an Andrew Carnegie meeting about success.

You have  a new year, begin it anew.

There is a recent discussion about why iWork Pages were not getting through Windows servers for clients with their proposals and HR for job applicants. So why is this?

Well, seems like there are a number of reason:

• You’re sending the files as a Pages document to someone that has MS Word and they can’t read Pages documents.
• You’re sending the files through Apple’s Mail program and not selected the Edit > Attachments > Always send Windows friendly attachments.
• Their using Windows servers “virus” software is turned up WAY to high to allow any of them to get through.

Solutions?

1. File > Export or Print > Print to PDF any Pages document to send it to the intend client.
2. Check the Always send Windows friendly attachments.
3. Tell the client to to talk with their IT department or System Administrator  to ratchet down or lighten up the virus protection software to allow “false positives” to get through.
4. Export your file into a Word document and open and save that document in Word format.

Why this last step? Because of this comment from another person that has gone through the headache of this issue

I believe Alex might have solved the issue with the metadata comment. Firewalls that are screwed down too tight see the MAC PDF as a virus and stop the file at the wall with no bounce back. Chatted with an IT friend of mine at a large corporation and they have recently discovered the same issue and narrowed it down to the metadata issue. No simple resolution for them either other than adjust the firewall “rules” or advise staff to work with Word or know that recipient can receive a iWork ‘09 PDF.

PS On Wednesday night I tried the Pages PDF conversion on my wife’s MACBook Pro running Snow Leopard with Pages 09 and same thing – no show at destination of municipal government office so I know problem wasn’t specific to my unit.

Hope this helps someone if you’re using iWork Pages

Here’s a good list of being innovative from a list of books by BusinessWeek.

You can get the answer here: Professional and Business Services!

Most entrepreneurs know that they need to change with the times, but have you considered that some businesses have changed completely from one business to another. Here are some example of what businesses have done from this article

• Avon – started out selling books door-to-door and gave away perfume in 1886. When the perfume got more response than the books Avon sold the perfume.
• Wrigley sold selling soap and baking powder in 1891, but sold chewing gum as enticements. Customers did not want the baking powder, only the gum.
• Tiffany & Co sold stationary in 1837, in 1853 it switched to jewelry.

So, learn to listen to your customer’s voice.

I can’t do any better than this site does, handing us 25 Startup Law Resources.

Great to start up your business, on the right side of the law.

Here’s an interesting marketing chart of where people may be wanting to spend their marketing dollars for their company’s message. Social media seems to be taking the place of traditional media, so where does that leave you and your marketing? Will you be doing the same?

Your thoughts?

… of rogue programmers/marketers that say they have developed an iPhone application when in fact they have not, just to get work or just to get a foot into the door with iPhone development. This Ars Technical article “Developers stealing from developers” discloses how “marketing” really takes credit for things the company has not done. So  beware of companies contacting you to write that iPhone app for you.