{"id":636,"date":"2008-11-09T20:27:34","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T00:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.local\/?p=636"},"modified":"2008-11-09T20:27:34","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T00:27:34","slug":"micro-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.local\/micro-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Micro Businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think we are at a tipping point.<\/p>\n<p>Where all these <strong>contextual factors<\/strong>, <strong>tip the scales<\/strong>, in<strong> favour of Micro Businesses<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Kind of like <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.local\/small-is-the-new-big\/\">Small is the New Big<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So what am I talking about? I believe the future is in micro niches, dominated by micro businesses, run by 1 or maybe 2\/3 people.<\/p>\n<p>It fits in with a few other trends I have noticed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Desire of Gen Y to &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.local\/you-can-do-what-you-want\/\">do what you want<\/a>&#8216;<\/li>\n<li>Bootstrapping startups<\/li>\n<li>Lower technology costs, meaning you can start a business for nothing that can scale\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Handys <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.bnet.com\/definition\/doughnut+principle.html\">Doughnut Organisation<\/a> discussions (shift to project work)<\/li>\n<li>Current financial crisis forcing all businesses to remain agile.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heymarci.com\/book\">Slashies<\/a> trend, where people hold many roles teacher by day dj at night<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.local\/12-hour-startup\/\">12 Hour Startup<\/a> (great way to stimulate innovation)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The idea of micro businesses;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Small businesses designed to be agile<\/li>\n<li>Garner enough income to live off but big upside potential<\/li>\n<li>People will typically have at least 1, but be involved in 3-4.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>This is the trend which may become Web 3.0 but buzzwords aside, I think all the contextual factors are in place for this to really take off.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Think about it, how many people do you know have multiple projects on the go, or have a full time job and a venture on the side growing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The time is now.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What business ideas do you have that you know would make money and have virtually zero setup costs? What&#8217;s stopping you?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Go out, start them, learn, build and most of all have fun.<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think we are at a tipping point. Where all these contextual factors, tip the scales, in favour of Micro Businesses. Kind of like Small is the New Big. So what am I talking about? I believe the future is in micro niches, dominated by micro businesses, run by 1 or maybe 2\/3 people. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10,396,601,788,789,811,1339,1365],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}