If all you have is hope, it’s not enough. Hoping, wishing, praying without action is a waste of time. You will accomplish nothing by wishing it would happen. You must get off your butt and make it happen.

- Tony Calabrese

With business and technology progressing at such a pace, both the need and opportunity for an individual to continuously develop, improve and sometimes recycle their skills have never been greater.

- Peter J Reed-Forrester

1. COMMIT to your business.
2. SHARE your profits with your associates and treat them as partners.
3. MOTIVATE your partners.
4. COMMUNICATE everything you possibly can to your partners.
5. APPRECIATE everything your associates do for the business.
6. CELEBRATE your success.
7. LISTEN to everyone in your company.
8. EXCEED your customers’ expectations.
9. CONTROL your expenses better than your competition.
10. SWIM upstream.

An entrepreneur is someone that steals office supplies from home and brings them to work

- Auren Hoffman

I heard some rumours today that Youtube is absolutely willing to sell but not for less than $1,5 billion. Not impossible, but if you ask me they won’t if they don’t sort out the problem with the copyrighted material that they shouldn’t be presenting in the first place.

Meanwhile, Yahoo and Microsoft are trying their best to get a stake on the online video market. And again, if you ask me… they’re kinda late.

You either make money or make excuses

-Ryan Hunter

This post is for all the idea-geeks out there who’ve been wanting to launch that brilliant, innovative, new, fresh web 2.0 application, design agency or development company but got stuck where 90% of the people do. Funding.

So here’s 5 simple steps that have done magic for our company.

1. Don’t be afraid.
Statistics say 90% of the people prefer a smaller but safe income than try something on their own. Statistics also say that 50% of the businesses get flushed out the toilet. So I guess that fear is justified, ha? Well, if you ask me, it isn’t. How do you know you’re business isn’t going to work if you don’t start one. Go ahead. Work on your smart idea. Make a business plan. Focus on what you have to do rather than what you’d like to do. Compromise.

2. Get money in.
You’d like to invest some money but you don’t have them, ha? No problem. Our days, all it takes is a website and a few referrals to get you rolling. Build that nifty presentation website. Print your short and clear business plan. Talk to your parents, friends, colleagues. See if they’re interested in joining you on your new adventure.

After you have some money in, say… 500 dollars, start looking for web design clients (people/companies that need websites). You don’t know how to build websites? No problem, we’ll get to that part too. Bid on freelancing websites. Post announcements in the newspaper. Do everything you can to get that first client. The rest will follow.

Ok, so after you get that first web design client, how do you build his website? Well, outsourcing. Find a Romanian, Indian, whatever company that will build it, for a lot less money you’re going to get from the client, I can assure you. You’ll see that the 500 dollars you spend on outsourcing will triple after your first project. Nice, ha?

4. Don’t spend what you earn
Working with outsourcing companies brings you a big advantage: you don’t have any expenses. No programmers/designers to pay, no office rent, nothing. Just pure profit.

Raise the money for that nifty web 2.0 application or whatever project you want to launch. When you think you have enough, outsource the project. Get the same company that has worked for your clients’ projects work for you now.

5. And if you only want an IT company that builds websites, creates web, desktop or mobile apps…
…stick to outsourcing. Get a good western Project Manager that will be the interface between your Company and your Clients. Take advantage of the internet and develop all your projects with Outsourcing Companies. It’s the best thing an IT Company can do.

That’s about it. I’m sure it doesn’t answer all your questions, and it’s possible that you don’t agree with this strategy, but Comments are open .

Starting from that observation, we Brainient people decided it was the right moment to use our brains to brainstorm a brainsmashing revamp of our small corporate website AND to launch that blog stuff you are reading now.

Let’s face it : no wow-fx there. Just a pure service, a communication tool between your neurons and ours.

And as you may have heard… it was not enough for this friday… so we launched THIS.

Brainusers is THE tool all of us Geeks have been waiting for since… huh… 1969 ?
And you know what the scariest part is ?
Brainusers.com was not registered by ANYONE before we got it…
You, I don’t know… but me… that scares me