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I am starting a home based business. Is it better to go with a notebook or desktop computer? What business software, if any, would be recommended? Thanks

~~Either will do you well. I like laptops for portability, but we also have a shared desktop which comes in handy too. For stability and reliability, I suggest either a Dell (my absolute favorite) or an Apple.

For business software we have always used Quickbooks. Very user friendly and they have a software program to fill every type of business need. Very easy to look and compare at www.quickbooks.com

Best of luck with everything!~~

I am thinking of using Peachtree or Quickbooks, but is there something easier, or better, that anyone can recommend? If not, which of those 2 is better? Thanks.

QuickBooks is pretty easy.

I have used QuickBooks for about 4 years now. It has its quirks but, overall, I like it. However, I am an accountant.

I played around with Peachtree years ago and I thought that is was over the head of most people.

This will me my second business I willtry to make. The first business failed because I needed money to get things to progress my business, but didnt have any. I am looking for, not a loan, but money in form of funding where I will NOT have to pay back the money. If anyone can help me this will be great. Thank you

Go to garage.com and learn everything there. Invest in Guy Kawasaki’s book, The Art of the Start. Guy was Apple’s marketing guy for the first 20 years and founded garage.com.

Keep it lean, keep it focused.

Use XP techniques. Invest in the Pragmatic Programmer’s bookshelf, even their seemingly elementary books like Practices of an Agile Developer.

Know your business model well, and know who’s successful at it. Use Alexa.com for benchmarking. Watch what’s out there.

Know the economics of your business model: have an idea of the strategic implications of your ditribution strategy, your deployment strategy, your service offering, your contracts. Where are you liable, what are your strengths.

Find out how you’re going to build buzz. Know the Hollywood model of Teaser > Preview > Release. Use it.

Release fast, release often.

Get these things down, and the financing will come. This is not for the faint of heart. Be realistic as to what you can actually do, how your skills (leadership, technical, analytical, etc.) stack up in the marketplace. Reach out where you can.

Build a presense at LinkedIn. There are investors there, as well as potential clients and employees.

Focus on your value proposition more than your contingencies. Your question smacks of fear and greed. Believe in yourself. Build because you love it. Worry less, produce more.

Invest in The Quiet Mind by David Kuntz and use these practices daily to keep yourself clear and open. Use this clarity to build a better product and a better company.

Invest in Getting Real from the boys at 37Signals.com. Use their successes and failures as shoulders to climb onto.

Feel free to contact me for follow up questions through my Yahoo! Anwers profile.

Good luck

I have a computer business that i do repair and sales. I also sell people’s stuff on ebay .

InDesign or Adobe Illustrator

duh…

quick books: payroll
Microsoft Office: spreadsheets, document editing
quicken: accounting

How are they used in business organizations?

Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint – their usage is self explanatory

Well, that’s a very general question so it’s going to be hard to give you a specific answer. Having said that, there are some resources available that can help you if you are interested in starting your own software business (see websites listed below).

If your business would be selling low-priced (say under $100) software to consumers (home users), then the simplest and best approach is to focus online. Build a professional website that is optimized for the search engines, have some great content that the search engines will want to bring people to, create buzz in blogs/forums.

Hope this helps,

Joanna

i am a senior that is going to college, but cant pick between these two. I would also like to ask yall which degree would probably have me paid more in the future. Thanks

A computer software engineering degree requires a certain level of math skills although it may be less than required by a computer science degree. Can you learn to do Trigonometry and Calculus? Make sure you can if the degree requires it before you commit. You don’t need it for many software development positions but your talking degrees here.

That said, you can also look into "Business Analyst" which is on the interface between Software Development and the end-user departments. It requires some technical competence but it also requires business and marketing knowlege.

I can’t remember what film this is but can remember the plot;

A guy and his friend are software/computer experts and are taken on by a big computer/software business. He begins to find out that the head of the business is awful and, works out that they killed his friend (spied on him using fibre optic) and his girlfriend is a spy working for them

(I don’t remember any actor’s or actress’s names) and i think it was made late 90’s/ early 00’s)

Please help!!

Antitrust (2001) with Ryan Phillippe?

I want to know what can I use for account, work orders, and time and billing tickets and everything else. Also before I start a computer repair business what should I do first? What tools will i need?

I use Quick book, you can buy an older version cheap on eBay.
You need to decide if you want to be a sole owner,LLC, or Corp.
But with the price of computer going down, it may be like VCR, if broken buy a new one.