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One Surefire Way to Screw up Your Lifestyle Business

By Derek Pilling on September 2, 2011

Some businesses are designed – maybe even destined – to be owner operated. Industry parlance often refers to these businesses as lifestyle businesses. Wikipedia has a nice definition. They are typically small, profitable, generate cash and enable their owner-operator to sustain a well-above average lifestyle. In some circumstances, they may even make their owner-operator filthy […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged Entrepreneur, Growth Equity, Investment Selection, Investor, lessons learned, lifestyle business, Raising Capital

What If Every Developer Focused On Lifestyle Businesses?

What If Every Developer Focused On Lifestyle Businesses?

By Chris Yeh on March 22, 2011

I recently ran across this post from Justin Vincent, where he argues that entreporn–the overwhelming focus on chasing “the next big thing”–holds developers back from their full potential. Instead, he writes: “The absolute truth is that each and every one of us can build a business that can support us.” That’s bullshit. While Vincent makes […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged businessmodel, developers, hacker news, hackers, lifestyle business

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