Reducing business setup costs – Open source software

One of the major problems for any business – especially a startup business – is reducing startup cost. Thats the time when money has not started to roll in and every dollar needs to be spent carefully. One very good way to reduce costs in such a situation is by using open source software to [...]

Sending large files

Online collaboration needs have grown to such a large extent that the 10MB file attachment limit of most email providers now appears insufficient. Videos, rich media and presentations now easily exceed the limit and transferring such files is a trouble. There are those who would love to break a file into pieces and request the [...]

Online networking for beginners

Social media sites are now everywhere and while the large ones(digg, facebook, myspace, ibibo) have huge fan following there are those that cater to niche groups of people. The key to utilizing social media websites for your benefit is to interact in these sites. Many people tend to ignore these websites in their online marketing/branding [...]

Getting the right people for the job

One of my favorite topics of discussion with my fellow colleagues and entrepreneurs is always about hiring the best employees. Like everyone else I have spent many hours pouring over CV’s and filtering out candidates for interviews. I have developed tips and discarded/modified those self made tips and then developed more tips to improve the [...]

Project monitoring. Can you afford to live without it?

One of the biggest hassles for any small entrepreneur is the planning and monitoring of projects. Small business owners do not have the option of having multiple people just for the task of project management and are generally wearing too many hats themselves. The relegation of project management as a side activity can possibly [...]