In today’s tough economic market more and more people are losing their jobs and struggling to find new ones. A by-product of this new world is that more and more people are becoming entrepreneurs and starting a wide range of new businesses. Now if you don’t have a job and want to be an entrepreneur you can work from home, rent an office or join the new trend of using coffee shops and cafes as your office – the coffice!
In the first part of this series i looked at some of the more hard core challenges i am facing in building a new business. In this entry i want to explore some other softer lessons being learned as we launch our new business. These lessons cover selection of people, the culture we want to create, our approach to working and most importantly having fun.
Over the last 3 months we have been setting up a new business called Classified Ad Ventures (CAV). As we set up this business, we are learning and re-learning what it takes to start a new business and I thought i would share some of these lessons with you.
Property Portal Watch is part of Classified Ad Ventures. Classified Ad Ventures helps the management teams of classified sites and their advertisers gain the most from using the internet. There are three parts to the business:
Inspire - Our consulting team works with management of classifieds portals to improve performance.
Innovate - Our incubation team develops new products and services for portals and their advertisers.
Invest - Our investment team takes equity stakes in online classifieds businesses around the world.
Classifed Ad Ventures sites include:
| Property Portal Watch | Jobs Portal Watch |
| Property Ad Guru | My CEO Life |
Classifed Ad Ventures Investments Include:
| ArtsHub | RedBubble |
| HippoJobs | HomeThinking |
| TokyoApartment | iProperty |
| Sports Passion |
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