The Bruneian Dollar

Published on 2010-10-17 23:31:00

Cover via AmazonI've found this post off from one of the discussions at LinkedIn, by a guy named Amol from UK. What he said made sense and its actually what we should be practicing for all this time as entrepreneurs. Learn how to make the million dollars through this article: Making a million is an idea that appeals to us all, be that a million dollars, pounds, yen or whatever currency your country uses. But unless you’re currency is practically worthless it’s not an easy task.In fact, makin

Businesses In Brunei From 2007: Infograph

Published on 2010-10-07 04:08:00

Sorry. I didn't make that Paypal Tutorial for Bruneians yet. Still working on it with a friend of mine in Germany to show that it's possible to withdraw, send, receive and add money to your Brunei Paypal account. The only thing it can't do for Bruneians is no merchant service. That includes "Buy Now", "Donate" and "Add To Shopping Cart" Buttons. As far as I'm concerned with the payment gateways, you can still use the Paypal Sandbox (I havn't touched it but it could prove useful for any IT Wizard

15 Brunei Websites For Market Gathering Round-Up

Published on 2010-09-26 20:41:00

5Being a Bruneian Entrepreneur, it feels difficult to get all the necessary information needed from the current Brunei market that I often find other markets more attractive to enter. But, I won't give up on Brunei and here is the list that I have always kept a watchful eye on the Brunei market via the Internet. I have gathered 12 locally-owned websites while the last 3 is not but worth mentioning as it relates to market information gathering. 1. Brudirect Brudirect - Brunei Directory

Never Assume Anything

Published on 2010-09-23 22:27:00

Image by danbri via FlickrThe headline says it all about this next article. You should never assume anything at all. You may assume a few things that has little or no consequences that may befall onto you or anyone for that matter. But when it comes to making financial decisions, assuming can lead to being an @$$. You can't spell assumption without @$$ anyways. Let's say Guy A has a product that he's just recently discovered that he could sell to the market. Here and there he hears

The Price Illusion: How To Cut Costs Further

Published on 2010-09-14 01:19:00

Image via WikipediaYou go into a shop, you find something interesting that you have always wanted to buy for (say, a new t-shirt that says, "+2 Constitution T-Shirt" with some added fantasy designs here and there) and then you started taking it to the fitting room. After trying it on, you look at yourself in the big mirror and said to yourself, "This is so geeky and cool that my friends would be so envious." until you see a price tag hanging off from the back clothe tag. The

Who Are Your "Right" Customers?

Published on 2010-09-08 20:00:00

Image via CrunchBase "It's not who can benefit from what you sell. It's about choosing the customers you'd like to have." - Seth Godin After I read that quote, it made me realize something. That a business cannot survive without customers. Because customers are a business lifeforce. You take that away, you'll be seeing that business gone bankrupt faster than Zek's popularity. Read more »

Happy Birthday, Bruneian Dollar!

Published on 2010-09-01 20:28:00

Bruneian Dollar is now 1 years old and I would like to offer myself a big hug, a pat on my back, a bucket of nice hot water for my feet, a hot towel for my face and listening to Nickelback music. It wasn't too long ago till I wrote my first post one year ago since today. It was a troubled time, I admit. Fresh out of University and into the unemployment market. KB was not the best place to find numerous of job opportunities. Although, it did force me to open my eyes, ears, the Internet which

Entrepreneurs Startup: Passion or Profits?

Published on 2010-08-31 22:06:00

Over the past month or so, I hoisted up a poll to find out how many entrepreneurs, like-minded business people and money-making individuals (freelancers included), would one day open up shop based on the kind of intention they have. And here are the results: 20% - Voted for Passion 10% - Voted for Profits 70% - Voted for Both The third choice was not supposed to be there but I believe that is where I wanted to be anyways just as the other 70% of the Bruneian Dollar public voted. Read more »

When Ideas Have Sex by Matt Ridley

Published on 2010-08-23 02:22:00

I watched this video and it was very interesting. And don't think for a second about the real coitus to ideas. It's about ideas that advances throughout history and how we should take note to actually advance ours. So without further ado, Matt Ridley with his talk that will take us through a journey to understand what the meaning of technology advancement with ideas from something simple to something more complex. So provided of what he has said, do you think anyone can actually fully underst

How Do You Talk To Kids About Money?

Published on 2010-08-20 21:47:00

Last year during Ramadhan, I met my little cousins and we break fast together. And it was interesting that they were playing "restaurant" after Sungkai. I observed how they behaved (often to just come up with a new idea to write about but later forgotten till now.): customer comes in, orders a food, pays the meal, and leave. A simple business restaurant process until I asked the little restaurant manager, "How much are you making?". He guessed and claimed to have made, "