Archive for the ' my thoughts' Category

Sell it All

When you’re first starting off with a new company you may be tight for cash to get your business going. I remember when I first started Cashcampus I sold just about everything I had for startup cash.
I was an ebay maniac for some time. I sold books, leather jackets, tapes, CDs, video games, my digital […]

David’s Black Book (entry 4)

Originally written 7.16.05
I gave a phenomenal speech last night in my business resources class. It was a 20 minutes speech on “Building and Running a Cross-Functional Team at the Age of 21.” I captivated my audience. Everyone loved the speech. One of my best ever. After the speech people told me how awesome I was […]

MLM for Students?

What’s all this talk about MLM (Multi Level Marketing) that all of your friends, neighbors, and mailmen seem to be trying to get you into? Or what about the time you were at a bar or coffee spot and someone asked you what you do for a living, then asked if you’d like to be […]

College plus Entrepreneur Equals no Time

Time…oh… time… how I wish that I had more of you. Don’t you wish that you had more time, too? The one thing that all students definitely lack is, of course, time. We have to make time for homework…time for our social lives…time for our girlfriends…time for those study groups…time for those nasty part-time jobs […]

David’s Black Book (entry 3)

Originally written: 11.16.04
I hate Mondays. I have two 2 hour classes in the morning and one 3 hour class at night. The only thing that gets me through my classes nowadays is the incessant thinking of my business and my future success as an entrepreneur…
Over the past few months my mind has been invariably fixed […]

David’s Black Book (entry 2)

Originally written 8.9.04
Remarkable. A little over a week ago I decided to go to a church yard sale upon the recommendation of my mother. I spent exactly $4 on a few boxes of old books and within that same week I turned those 4 dollars into $70 by selling the books in packages on ebay. […]

David’s Black Book (entry 1)

Originally written: 7.12.04

I have been quite frustrated with the progression of the website lately. They are taking way too long for a job that should have been completed weeks ago. I feel that they are rushing it along and trying to cramp everything into these last 2 weeks, to make up for the lost time. […]

David’s Black Book (introduction)

Over the next few weeks or so I’ll be adding posts to “Flush the Toilet” directly from a diary that I have been writing in since June 2003. My diary is filled with cool stuff I’ve written about on my journey to become a successful entrepreneur (a journey that I am still on and have […]

Find a Mentor

Something like 7 out of 10 students want to become an entrepreneur and run their own business some day. That’s great. But the chances of all 7 students making it big are slimmer than Anna Nicole Smith’s new waist size.
To increase your chances of really making it in the business world, you may want to […]

Read then read some more

As a student entrepreneur you should be constantly reading. Yeah that’s right, reading and entrepreneurism actually do work well together, believe it or not.
Ok… ok… I know that we’re all very busy and have a lot of other things to do with our time than have our heads in a book, but trust me, […]