We had a meeting today with a friend, who owns a popular cafe and sandwich shop, about business plans and so forth. He was helpful and suggested that rather than launch the business as one company, even though liability risk is low, we should break it up into three businesses. More that he suggested that we have a fourth company that was the assets holder for the business. By doing this we would completely devalue the other 'front-man' companies meaning that they were even lower risk.
Worth a thought?
Friday, April 30, 2010
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Business Plans
The first step to creating any good business is, apparently, crafting your business plan.
It gives your company direction, helps raise finances and puts on paper the ideas that up until this point have been swimming around in your booze fogged skull.
I'm going to be the first to admit that we are very new to all this so we got some help with our business plan. It certainly isn't something that you want to pay someone else to do. This is YOUR idea and YOUR planning session so if someone else has to do it for you you're fucked already.
However like all new businesses a little help goes a long way. We did a lot of research and then hooked up with the folks at www.entrepreneur.com for the final few steps.
At the time of writing this article we are still writing our business plan, though the first steps are obviously in place; namely this blog. Our plan is a working plan. This means that is is simply for use in house, to keep us on track. We won't be using it to gather funding or for luring in high profile employee's.
So its pretty simple, a little messy and has a few beer stains on it. If we feel like being generous we may link it to this site so that all you thieving low lives can steal our ideas and start your own company; which will invariably fail. Due to karma; not to a bad idea. We hope.
It gives your company direction, helps raise finances and puts on paper the ideas that up until this point have been swimming around in your booze fogged skull.
I'm going to be the first to admit that we are very new to all this so we got some help with our business plan. It certainly isn't something that you want to pay someone else to do. This is YOUR idea and YOUR planning session so if someone else has to do it for you you're fucked already.
However like all new businesses a little help goes a long way. We did a lot of research and then hooked up with the folks at www.entrepreneur.com for the final few steps.
At the time of writing this article we are still writing our business plan, though the first steps are obviously in place; namely this blog. Our plan is a working plan. This means that is is simply for use in house, to keep us on track. We won't be using it to gather funding or for luring in high profile employee's.
So its pretty simple, a little messy and has a few beer stains on it. If we feel like being generous we may link it to this site so that all you thieving low lives can steal our ideas and start your own company; which will invariably fail. Due to karma; not to a bad idea. We hope.
Monday, April 19, 2010
A new adventure
Have you ever thought that you had a good business idea? An idea that could make you tons of money, get you hundreds of beautiful women, fame and five cars? If your idea is anything to do with production, photography, or film making I wouldn't bother. You're not good enough. You're idea is probably shit. Especially if your idea is really good and would provide competition for us, then yeah, I wouldn't bother. You're not good enough. Its a terrible idea; we heard it and we don't think that it'll go anywhere. Give up.
With that out of the way here is what we have to say. This is going to be a blog about the creation of a new business; Electric Mess Productions. As students of science communication with access to many excellent and financially poor film-makers, writers, and photographers we're well set up to undercut everyone by illegally employing them and forcing them to work for just about nothing. Why was slavery ever abolished?
Beyond that the market for gig and party photography in Dunedin, my city, is huge. On top of that the writers under oujr thumb will provide service to all those in need of words, write-ups and anything else that excludes illiterate people. The third arm of our mutated child will be filming, editing, and scoring for advertising and promotional moving pictures.
So this is that story...
With that out of the way here is what we have to say. This is going to be a blog about the creation of a new business; Electric Mess Productions. As students of science communication with access to many excellent and financially poor film-makers, writers, and photographers we're well set up to undercut everyone by illegally employing them and forcing them to work for just about nothing. Why was slavery ever abolished?
Beyond that the market for gig and party photography in Dunedin, my city, is huge. On top of that the writers under oujr thumb will provide service to all those in need of words, write-ups and anything else that excludes illiterate people. The third arm of our mutated child will be filming, editing, and scoring for advertising and promotional moving pictures.
So this is that story...
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