How can Reading Later help you?

Instapaper is a website that allows you to save web articles to read later. It conveniently provides you with a bookmark link that you can click each time you see a website that you don’t have time to read.

When you click the link, you can log in to Instapaper.com (or use their Android/iOS app) and read the article through there. It saves the website in its most basic form–just photos and text, so you can’t really view any videos or slideshows embedded on it.

It’s a great idea, considering we have information overload nowadays and we’re all trying to resist the urge to keep reading blogs while working.

What’s in it for Instapaper?

Which Business Do You Want To Be?

Dp you want to be the smaller one, targeting niches and owning it? Or target the mass market, going online to save costs but joining group buy sites to increase volume sales?

There are now two kinds of businesses. One is starting to grow, the other is trying to keep plateauing.

It’s Easy to be That Good Student

It’s easy to be that good student. It’s easy to…
- listen to the teacher.
- ask the right questions.
- get 90% on tests.
- get honors upon graduation.
- be known by your class as the smart one.

All you have to do is follow instructions.

What Plates, Toilets and Movie Credits Have In Common…

…is that no one advertises through them.

Urinal Advertising in other countries

There’s been a craze in the past 2 years about innovations and tapping new markets. I just want to differentiate for a bit and point to tapping new spaces.

Halfway Valet

You’ve probably given your car keys to the valet to avoid the hassle of parking. You were happy about it, until you had to wait twenty minutes for them to get your car.

Parking is a hassle.

Teaching Teens to Handle Money

One of my realizations now is that we lacked financial education while we were in our formative years. Probably because parents and schools thought that there was no need to teach kids about money and how to grow it, because kids are still young. This is a big mistake on the part of us adults. Money is not life and not to be worshipped, but handling money requires a lot of wisdom and is a very practical thing to be good with at an early age.

Entrepreneurs Can Exist in Companies

Who says we can’t be entrepreneurs while working for a company?

Entrepreneur’s common traits: owns something fully, loses sleep, time and money working on things, brings personal belongings to work, will do everything to make sure the project launches.

Make Yourself Rock

What is a skill? It is something we pick up from doing work. Something that we can specialize in. Examples are typing really fast. Or coming up with a kickass, interactive, alluring presentation in the form of a Marketing Plan or Business Case. It is a result in itself.

What is a competency? It is our ability to do something, something we are good at. Examples are being good at handling people, or being good at synergy (like a baws) and integrating things into a solid idea. It is not necessarily a result in itself, but it leads to quality results.

Fairness Culls the Good

Managers and companies, by nature, are usually fair to their people (play along, I know it’s not always true). We all get the same treatment, benefits, evaluations, raises.

Feedback in Rejection

A way to honor your partners is to give them feedback.

I remember the first time I had to say no to a potential business partner. It took me half of my day to make the email, I even consulted with my boss and our COO about what to say. After quite a number of rejections, now I get it.