Entrepreneurship Class Weeks 1 & 2

So I started classes March 2nd. The first week was relatively easy going. We were handed out materials and had an introductory session. Going into the program however, I wondered if I belong there. I knew that I had an idea and was accepted but I really wondered who the type [...]

Accepted Into NVTC FastTrac Program

Yeah!!! Just got the email a few minutes ago that I got into the program that is starting this March for one of the sites that I acquired. Persistence absolutely pays.  Back in September, I submitted two applications into the program.  The selection committee liked my entrepreneurial spirit but not the fact that [...]

Power Of Social Media In Face of Disaster

We all heard it before- social media/social networking is just a fad.  It will go away just like bell bottom jeans did.  I think what’s happening right now with the Haiti disaster is proving otherwise.  Here’s why.
Social media has enabled fundraising to be more powerful. 
Think about how fundraising was done traditionally.  There were celebrities, [...]

Peru Mission Debrief

First off, hope you had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. So you know I went to Peru recently not for vacation but on missions work. You may or may not know what that means and what I did. So, this is my attempt to give you the 2-minute, 20-minute [...]

Entrepreneur’s Marriage

I just read an article in the Dec 2009/Jan 2010 issue of Inc.  The article was entitled “House Rules” and it offered 10 suggestions or rules to a happy entrepreneurial marriage.  I won’t go over the ten points but here are the ones I find amusing and/or helpful.  The article assumes only one person is [...]

Blizzard in DC

Last weekend, the DC area got dumped on. We received over 22 inches of snow. And while most stayed inside for Friday, Saturday and Sunday, I took the opportunity to do something fun. At least I considered what I did to be fun. I live on a hill in Virginia, the [...]

Made My First AdSense Dollar

I finally (I repeat finally) made my first Adsense dollar today.  One dollar and eighteen cents to be exact.  It’s not much as I am still very much behind on expenses but I thought this was never going to happen.  The click came from one of the sites that I brought about a month ago [...]

Missionary and a Website

On my birthday today, I officially became a missionary.  My team were commissioned at our church today where the pastor and congregation prayed for us all.  We also had a lot of supporters who cheered, yelled, and shouted letting us know we had fans in the audience.  It felt great knowing that we were doing something that will be [...]

Entreprenuerial Bug Bites

I’m up late last night… really late because I stumbled upon a potentially really good idea.  It started when I was reading a blog post from Jonathan Volk about generating web traffic, and pay per click advertising.  I was hoping to get some insights on how to improve traffic to this blog and how to [...]

Upcoming Missions Trip

Everything’s on hold.  In August, I signed up to go on a short-term missions trip to Peru.  The objective of the trip is to go to a vocational and rehabilitation center for special needs kids and youth and interact with the kids there as well as helping with general repairs.  A missions trip had been [...]

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