I saw this tweet from a twitter account I follow called StartupUK:Considering an Entrepreneurial Venture? Go For It, But Have a Career Contingency Plan « The …http://digg.com/u1HVA7I went via digg to tweetmeme to a blog post on a site called the...
Topics: business, career, entrepreneurship

{"title":"Contingency plan for your business not your career","post_url":"http:\/\/www.fiftybyfifty.com\/lifeoffarhan\/2009\/12\/04\/contingency_plans\/","feed_url":"http:\/\/www.fiftybyfifty.com\/lifeoffarhan\/feed\/","author":"FarhanLalji","date":"2009-12-04 09:08:12","summary":"I saw this tweet from a twitter account I follow called StartupUK:Considering an Entrepreneurial Venture? Go For It, But Have a Career Contingency Plan \u00ab The …http:\/\/digg.com\/u1HVA7I went via digg to tweetmeme to a blog post on a site called the..."}

There’s an interesting post on Techcrunch EU today, where they’ve quoted a prominent European VC at the Noah event in London this week saying:“Whenever we want to grow we are too reliant on US companies and too reliant again when we want to...
Topics: business, entrepreneurship, marketing, technology

{"title":"The European startup view from the sidelines","post_url":"http:\/\/www.fiftybyfifty.com\/lifeoffarhan\/2009\/12\/01\/the-european-startup-view-from-the-sidelines\/","feed_url":"http:\/\/www.fiftybyfifty.com\/lifeoffarhan\/feed\/","author":"FarhanLalji","date":"2009-12-01 05:46:48","summary":"There\u2019s an interesting post on Techcrunch EU today, where they\u2019ve quoted a prominent European VC at the Noah event in London this week saying:\u201cWhenever we want to grow we are too reliant on US companies and too reliant again when we want to..."}

Duane over at Kashflow wrote a great blog post about SEO as a marketing strategy over at the Kashflow blog. I couldn’t agree more. His main point is summed up nicely in this bit:“Whilst free traffic (as opposed to paid-for Adwords) is highly...
Topics: business, communication, entrepreneurship, google, internet, marketing, twitter

{"title":"Beyond Google part two, for marketing","post_url":"http:\/\/www.fiftybyfifty.com\/lifeoffarhan\/2009\/11\/24\/beyond-google-part-two-for-marketing\/","feed_url":"http:\/\/www.fiftybyfifty.com\/lifeoffarhan\/feed\/","author":"FarhanLalji","date":"2009-11-24 07:34:40","summary":"Duane over at Kashflow wrote a great blog post about SEO as a marketing strategy over at the Kashflow blog. I couldn\u2019t agree more. His main point is summed up nicely in this bit:\u201cWhilst free traffic (as opposed to paid-for Adwords) is highly..."}

I’m really digging this campaign by VW – thefuntheory.com – if you’re not familiar with it VW’s doing a bunch of “stunts” to see if making things more fun will get more people to do things. My favourite – and the one that seems the most.
Topics: business, marketing

{"title":"What people say versus what they do","post_url":"http:\/\/www.fiftybyfifty.com\/lifeoffarhan\/2009\/11\/03\/say_versus_do\/","feed_url":"http:\/\/www.fiftybyfifty.com\/lifeoffarhan\/feed\/","author":"FarhanLalji","date":"2009-11-03 07:17:47","summary":"I\u2019m really digging this campaign by VW \u2013 thefuntheory.com \u2013 if you\u2019re not familiar with it VW\u2019s doing a bunch of \u201cstunts\u201d to see if making things more fun will get more people to do things. My favourite \u2013 and the one that seems the most."}

Two articles today got me thinking about giving stuff away to make money.First a survey on the Independent shows that on average people who admit to illegally downloading music actually spend more on music than those who claim that they never down music..
Topics: business, entrepreneurship, google, internet, marketing

{"title":"Give stuff away, offer value, make money","post_url":"http:\/\/www.fiftybyfifty.com\/lifeoffarhan\/2009\/11\/02\/give-stuff-away-offer-value-make-money\/","feed_url":"http:\/\/www.fiftybyfifty.com\/lifeoffarhan\/feed\/","author":"FarhanLalji","date":"2009-11-02 05:18:03","summary":"Two articles today got me thinking about giving stuff away to make money.First a survey on the Independent shows that on average people who admit to illegally downloading music actually spend more on music than those who claim that they never down music.."}