Explaining to people a vision, the new masterful concept which will one day make billions upon billions of dollars is without a doubt one of the most daunting tasks an entrepreneur experiences.

Your job as an entrepreneur is to sell ideas to many people. You have to sell your ideas to developers, engineers, product development specialists, marketing and sales.

If you find that you have to explain something multiple times before people truly grasp your concepts this is a sign that you’re pitching something sophisticated. Sophisticated concepts take quite a bit more time to sell and require a highly customized marketing plan to target that unique market.

Then again, the flipside to highly sophisticated concepts are those that are so simple people just don’t get it. I sometimes think about the movie the Hudsucker Proxy with Tim Robbins. He has the idea for the Hula-hoop. He spends sometime in the movie showing people what the Hula-hoop looks like on a napkin. Basically, it’s a circle on a piece of paper and its quite funny watching him run around holding up this napkin with a drawn circle. He says “You know, it’s for kids”.

You know something is not right with the housing market when a family who earns way more then the average cannot afford to buy a decent home to live in.

Living in Los Angeles homes are more than double the national average. Home that should sell for between $300,000 to $400,000 are now being sold for $700,000 to $800,000.

In the past few years prices have skyrocketed so much that buying a townhouse and renting it out as an investment is impossible unless you’re putting down 40% to 50%. Now I am no expert but if I can not even come close to a fetching rental income for what the mortgage is, to me it’s a bad deal. (more…)

At the suggestion of DreamHost and Tamar Weinberg of Techipedia, I’ve installed WP-Cache 2.0 for this blog. (more…)

I’ve received a few emails over the past few days and a handful of instant messages informing me that my site takes forever to load. I have also been sarcastically thanked by a few friends for recommending them to DreamHost as their web hosting solution.

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This post is addressed to all you entrepreneurs and small business owners. There seems to be a growing trend where many of you believe you personally possess the essential skills necessary that will allow you to take your business online and market it to everyone on the World Wide Web.

And why should you not feel this way? There are dozens if not hundreds of solutions now offered that will hand-hold you through the process of registering a new domain name, hosting it and building a “customized” business website. (more…)

There are only a few books that when finished reading I think to myself “Shit, why did I not read this ten years ago?” I happen to just finish reading one of these types of books; The Millionaire Mind, Thomas J. Stanley, Ph.D.

Part of being an Obsessive Compulsive Entrepreneur is that my career path is far from normal. My days are typically filled with uncertainty. (more…)