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Check out Entrepreneur.com’s article for today, Why Entrepreneurs Celebrate ‘Independent’s Day’. On this Fourth of July holiday, small business owners share why they’re grateful to be calling their own shots.
Since Freedom begats free, so take a look at this FREE font. Per Yanone’s web site about this nice font:
Yanone Kaffeesatz was first published in 2004 and is my first ever finished typeface. Its Bold is reminiscent of 1920s coffee house typography, while the rather thin fonts bridge the gap to present times. Lacking self
confidence and knowledge about the type scene I decided to publish the family for free under a Creative Commons License. A decision that should turn out one of the best I ever made. It has been downloaded over 100,000 times to date from this website alone, and you can witness Kaffeesatz use on German fresh-water gyms, Dubai mall promos and New Zealand McDonald’s ads. And of course on coffee and foodstuff packaging and café design around the globe.
In 2009 I reworked much of the typeface, and it got published in FontShop’s FontFont Library under the new name FF Kava. You can read more about it in an extensive article by Yves Peters on the FontFeed.
In 2010 I decided to re-release the typeface under the SIL Open Font License to make it possible to include in software bundles or web font services like Google’s Font Directory.
While the font is free and most fonts go for around $20-40, some much higher, send him some font money love and donate and buy him some coffee.
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As with any startup entrepreneur you start out with lots of hopes and dreams. And along the way, you expect both good and bad with the hope that there is more good than bad.
The guiding principle for any startup entrepreneur is to spend as little money as possible while accomplishing your goals. It’s about being a good steward of your financial and other resources.It’s about making sure that you’re making money first instead of just spending it.
Here is my short list of both.
Enchantment
I recently had my BEST enchantment encounter with none other than the man himself, Guy Kawasaki. It all started with a story he wrote in MacUser magazine in the 1990s. Fast forward to a few years ago as I began writing my book and the story so kept with me that I wrote the story that Guy wrote about in my book. Here is what I put in my book on page 239:
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Welcome to all of the Problogger.net visitors who stopped by to visit after reading my guest blog post “A Blog, a Book and a Business: One Author’s Journey” was posted today. Thanks for visiting and take a look around and even connect with me if you want or let me know how I can help you out.
Kevin
I’ll be presenting at the Macintech User Group at 6:30 PM tonight. I’ll be discussing how to publish a book using a Mac and iWork Pages. Stop on by meet some great folks.
It’s located here:
I’ll be attending the Personlize Media Conference at the Chautauqua in Boulder, CO on June 20-21, 2011.
The Agenda covers:
It should be a good conference, I’ll blog about it when I’m done. Change is all around and this conference will be a part of that change with technology being at the forefront of media and content.
Why is this a blog post? Because as one who thought I had to go through the route of MAYBE finding a publisher and MAYBE getting my book into the market, independently publishing your book is THE way to launch a new career or resurrect one.
So to answer the question. You bet! Check out Amanda Hocking’s blog about her selling over 900,000 books and not going the traditional publishing route, i.e. finding a publisher and allowing them to sell her books. She has gone ebooks and independently published her books. But, and here’s the big bug, she’s been writing since she was a preteen and is now 26!
In other words, she’s put in the work to get there. But what does she have to do now? Learn how to manager all of her success, like paying taxes on the money she is earning, keeping long lost friends from becoming friends again. There’s more responsibility and she’ll learn, I have not doubt.
Go Amanda.
Enjoy her blog post, does it give you some ideas?
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When an entrepreneur or startup collaborate with others one of the ways to do this is to use Google docs to share documents. Now Google has created 12 new file formats to view documents, one of which is iWork Pages.
Nice going Google.
