Entrepreneur

Guy Kawasaki is the ultimate startup guru. He's a writer and a great speaker (I've seen him talk at Fed Hall for Entrepreneur Week). As a summary of a lot of his startup wisdom, he's written the following article for OPEN Forum:

The Art of Bootstrapping

It's pretty much a re-hash of his previous writings, but a good place to start if you're considering a startup.

The 37signals blog pointed me to a video talk by Jason Fried (founder and CEO of 37signals) where he talks about how businesses can use teaching as a way attract and retain customers. To paraphrase the 14 minute talk, telling your customers how and why you do what you do can actually make you money. He talks about how 37signals repurposed a collection of their "lessons" (describing the strengths of their own application development "philosophy") from their blog into a book and a conference... both of which made them money.

Are you considering starting your own business? Thinking about bringing your existing business on-line? If you're looking to get some inspiration, head over to Gary Vaynerchuk's blog.

His site includes fairly regular videos about his successes with Wine Library TV, on-line marketing, social media sites, self promotion and how to start and run a business in an Internet-connected world. Gary is animated and emotional, passionate and blunt.

His videos are well worth the time... and they might get you inspired enough to start your own video show :)