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By: DrakNet Web Hosting Blog » Reselling: Web Hosting as a Lifestyle Business

DrakNet Web Hosting Blog » Reselling: Web Hosting as a Lifestyle Business — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:35:46 +0000

[...] Shelter’s Tim Clark wrote a few years ago about the difference between Lifestyle-Focused or Family Businesses, Middle-Market Companies, and High-Potenti…, reminding us that Lifestyle and Family businesses account for 90% of new businesses. While many [...]

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hosting — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:41:02 +0000

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By: Darcoerve

Darcoerve — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:32:01 +0000

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By: M I L A N A . C O M » Lifestyle Business “Ala Milana”

M I L A N A . C O M » Lifestyle Business “Ala Milana” — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 20:55:55 +0000

[...] Lifestyle-Focused or Family Businesses “These are firms that depend heavily on founder skills, personality, energy, and contacts. Often their founders create them to exercise personal talent or skills, achieve a flexible schedule, work with other family members, remain in a desired geographic area, or simply to express themselves. But without the founder’s deep personal involvement, such businesses are likely to, well, founder. Professional investors are therefore rarely involved with lifestyle businesses.” [...]

By: by Tim

by Tim — Sat, 31 May 2008 00:24:42 +0000

Jon, you’ll add much value to the discussion. Thanks for checking in!

By: Jon P

Jon P — Thu, 29 May 2008 00:40:55 +0000

Tim,

Great stuff. I run a 3-person firm (myself and two employees) and find myself constantly having to explain the value in a nice, well-oiled small firm. Many people seem to think I’m crazy for not trying to grow employee size dramatically – which would in my case deteriorate the quality level of our service. Anyhow, I think the point that you can have a small 1-5 person business that is efficient, effective, successful and profitable needs to emphasized.

By: Eric Greene

Eric Greene — Wed, 28 May 2008 16:32:33 +0000

Thanks! I am looking forward to the rest of the series.

By: by Tim

by Tim — Tue, 27 May 2008 19:30:39 +0000

Thanks, Anthony—and great blog, by the way. Stay tuned for Three Things I Wish I’d Known Before Starting My Own Business this Wednesday night and an interview with blogger extraordinaire J.D. Roth next week.

By: Anthony Kuhn

Anthony Kuhn — Tue, 27 May 2008 18:23:00 +0000

Great to see a new thread starting. My readers are also interesting in this kind of thing, so I took the liberty of linking to your post in my blog today at the Innovators-Network with the hope of sending more interested readers to the Soul Shelter. Best luck and I’m looking forward to your future posts.

By: by Tim

by Tim — Mon, 26 May 2008 19:06:35 +0000

Maybe small is the new big … at any rate, more people are recognizing that they’re miserable in large organizations and taking entrepreneurial action. More power to them, and to you!