Are You Starting Up Just Because it’s Hip to be an Entrepreneur?
The trend is confirmed: Regardless of the very low startup success rate, budding entrepreneurs are rushing into the world of business like there’s a gold mine in sight. While it’s true that the opportunities are there, most of startups won’t struck gold at the end. But why entrepreneurs are still doing it even though the…

6 Questions You Need to Ask Yourself Before Launching a Startup
From conception to launch, there’s nothing easy about being a startup founder. The road will likely be arduous. Few people will help you at first. If history is any lesson, there will be many failures followed (hopefully) by a few smashing successes. Following are 6 questions you need to ask yourself, starting when the first…

10 Indispensable Lessons to Learn from a Failed Startup
There are a thousand and one cliches out there about failure and how you need to get back up and keep going when your business fails for the first, second, third, etc., time. More important than the “getting back up” part, is to have the ability to see the forest for the trees. To recognize…

Farm from a Box Enables you to Build a Tech-powered 2-Acre Farm and Feed a Community – Just from a Container Box
Worried about the apocalypse’s aftermath and have a plan to prepare a community for it? Entrepreneurs know very well about the emerging “doomsday prepper” market, and they launch startups that help people to feel safer by providing some kind of “insurance” that will increase their well-being when things go bad. Now, some other startups are…

Repair Cafes Help People Fix Broken Things, in DIY Style
When I was a kid, my remote control car survives well under heavy use. As a kid, you redefine the word ‘heavy use.’ It means that your RC car survived falls, crashes, trips, and anything else you could think of. If it didn’t suffer much, it lasted for years before you need to buy another…

Don’t be a Wannapreneur – Grow up!
“Wanting to be an entrepreneur vs. being an entrepreneur is two different things” – Gary Vaynerchuk “I own a startup. I’m an entrepreneur. F*** yeah!” is many young people’s mantra, but I think that having that cool idea and work on it on the weekends won’t make you an entrepreneur in its truest sense.  You…