Re: questions for the entrepreneurs

2009-02-26 Thread Robert Munn
First decide if you want to be a consultant on your own or run a company. If you go the corp route, follow Duane's advice and set it up properly. Then figure out what you want to do. When you have a company and you talk to people about your business, they will inevitably ask you a handful of quest

Re: questions for the entrepreneurs

2009-02-26 Thread Erika L. Walker
All good stuff - but I was mainly interested in the big client contacts. I'm lucky because I've kept almost all my first clients from 10 years ago throughout the years. I also switch to a service provider model instead of one of contracts, so that keeps residual income coming every month. But I'

Re: questions for the entrepreneurs

2009-02-26 Thread Michael Grant
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RE: questions for the entrepreneurs

2009-02-26 Thread Duane Boudreau
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Re: questions for the entrepreneurs

2009-02-26 Thread Erika L. Walker
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RE: questions for the entrepreneurs

2009-02-26 Thread Duane Boudreau
I basically started through sheer blind luck. Was doing work on the side to support my addiction to tech toys and eventually it got to the point that I was working more than 40 hours on the side so I went solo. My biggest breaks came when I answered an ad for a two contract for a company in Boston