Comments on: You are not a company

By: Inspired or Rip-off? - Tech Soapbox

Inspired or Rip-off? - Tech Soapbox — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:06:21 +0000

[...] the same time, it is more a feature and less a company. Analytic sites agree - it spiked the past two months, but started falling in October. And only [...]

By: Ahmed

Ahmed — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 14:41:13 +0000

@James - well put. Too many thoughts have fried the circuitry up there

And glad you like the blog.

By: James

James — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:02:21 +0000

Good point, probably not the best terminology usage however. Instead of one-man operations being akin to freelance work (blogging does not make one independently contracted to do work), I would suggest it is more like self-employment. Robert Kiyosaki (author of the Rich Dad Poor Dad series) splits the money making world into four quadrants; Employee (you have a job), Self-Employed (your blog makes money, but the blog would not continue to make money without your direct input, or in other words you own the job), Business Owner (you could leave and come back in a year to find your business more profitable than when you left it), and finally Investor (but that isn’t relevant to my point).

I suppose the truth is that most people do not start out as a “real company” and that’s ok. In my honest opinion there is a legitimate middle ground between doing jack squat and owning a business that is self-sustained. I think the Web has brought about this new middle ground and that Web 2.0 and has increased the number of people joining this group.

By the way, love the blog.

By: $1.2 million for … this? - Tech Soapbox

$1.2 million for … this? - Tech Soapbox — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:43:14 +0000

[...] my previous post, I had said you are not a company. The issue was simple - if the business falls apat without you (ie single-employee situations), [...]

By: Anthony

Anthony — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 07:18:55 +0000

I remember years ago I raised this in a thread I started over at SitePoint laughing at freelancers calling themselves CEOs. Offended a few people who flamed me for not getting how massive their one man empires were and how they were fully entitled to be called a CEO amongst the best of them.

By: Food for Thought: So What’s a Company?

Food for Thought: So What’s a Company? — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 12:06:40 +0000

[...] over at Tech Soapbox, wrote this great piece entitled You are not a company. It’s an assertion that entrepreneurship isn’t necessarily the establishment of a viable [...]