When I was looking at the next “Monday Motivations for MacStartups” I was looking for another company to profile, but then I saw this blog site and thought, “You know, we’re all motivated by our spaces and how we set up our work and living spaces and the way we set them up tells us how we like to live and work.” If we can’t personalize, we become homogenized, and Macs are not about homogenization at all!!
So, we Mac fan boys and girls love working with our Macs, but have you ever thought of how your Mac looks in your office compared with others? Here’s 60 pictures of other Mac fans and their set ups.
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As a beginning entrepreneur I’ve learned that we startups “need to know our numbers.” For entrepreneurs, numbers are the results of what we measure, and we need to measure the right things.
I had a brief discussion with a “up and coming” entrepreneur in Ohio recently and in our discussion he asked me, “How many employees to you have?”
I said, “Only me.”
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I can’t make this up, but it’s gold to entrepreneurs. A quick way to test out an idea from an objective source over coffee.
Snooty Monkey’s The $20 Starbucks Test.
I loved the idea.
What do you think?
This needs nothing else, from Steve Jobs, Macworld Boston 1997.
“We have to let go of the notion that for Apple to win, Microsoft has to lose. We have to embrace the notion that for Apple to win, Apple has to do a really good job. And if others are going to help us, then that is great, because we need all the help we can get. And if we screw up and we don’t do a good job, it’s not somebody else’s fault. It’s our fault.”
Do you agree or disagree?
When you start your own business, you keep your costs down so as to ensure you have enough capital to make it for the long haul. If you have had Angel investors or Venture Capitalists, you still look out for keeping your costs in line with your growth so that you can get your product into a larger market.
In my post last week What do the rich pay for? about what the rich really do pay for I shared that they pay for the expensive stuff which leads to investments to reduce the price of the product so that others can afford it. Now let’s look at the other end of the money spectrum, the poor.
When you think of the poor what brings to mind most of the time his children in Africa or other Third World country with distended bellies and flies surrounding their eyes and mouth. You also think of running around barefoot on a dirt road next to a shack that with pieces of cardboard, metal, plastic, or scraps of wood put together to create a shelter from the elements. You also get the vision of mountains of trash with kids digging through trash to look for food to eat or other things to sell turn enough money to buy food. You’re also reminded of the devastating aftermath of Japan’s recent earthquake and tsunami. This post is not about lessening these problems or that we should not help, we should and as human beings we should take responsibility to provide help. But this post is about a different poor.
Let’s start with watching this, it’s only four minutes long.
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As an startup entrepreneur using a Mac there is one thing that puzzles me: How does one figure that the rich do not pay their fair share of society?
It really boils down to this: What do the rich really pay for?
Here’s the first part of the equation: According to Who Pays Income Taxes and how much? the top 10% of AGI (Adjusted Gross Income) taxpayers pay a WHOPPING 69.94% of our Federal governments bills! And that is for incomes OVER $113,799.00 based on IRS statistics, not the $250,000.00 number that is bantered around so much.
But what DO the rich do for us?
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What most people do not realize is that to start a business can be easy, but a government with laws and regulations can hinder and even prevent you from following your dream. It’s called the barrier to entry. How much does it cost, in time and money, for you just to get started selling your products and services, let alone sell and profit from your first sales?
Dozens of new criminal laws pass Congress every year. Many include prison time and heavy fines for conduct that most citizens would never guess is prohibited.
Here is a great infographic of our nations laws.
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