entrepreneurship

Something outstanding just happened in the internet tech bubble world.

The founder of Odeo, a music and podcast sharing internet service, Evan Williams just bought his company back from his investors to gain control and develop his business.

While every day new web2.0 start up's get funding and get bought by big companies, he decides to do it different. Read the article in 'news for entrepreneurs' "Odeo bought back from investors", especially the quote of the founder and owner Evan Williams.

Evan illustrates how he want to build his business, independent from investors. Longterm instead of shortterm, that is exactly what is our philosophy at The Soul of Entrepreneurship. After inventing a sevice, finding the right business model, means how to make money with it. Then we know people want it, they pay for it...

values

... is the first stage of the growth pattern a business goes through. When you know your own values, you can find out who shares your values. With those people you can easy gain trust, create friendship, do business. "Birds of a feather, flock together". A great example for this effect , lightly twisted you can read in the blog post "Why do people look like their dogs?" from Seth Godin. You find this in the "news for entrepreneurs" section on the top right side of the main page.