Having thought about it long and hard, I have decided it’s time to compose my Business. Being no stranger to the contemporary meta-post-modernist jungle that is our information-scape, the obvious next step was to gather some advice (I’m much too lazy to disrespect the last x billion years of evolution by setting off to re-invent the wheel).

I do know a fair bit about Design, and my business will definitely be very design orientated. What I don’t know much about is the Business side. So I figure, if I’m going to have a design business, best I start learning about the business of making and managing a business. Call a Friend! So I called a few friends in business.

I phoned Erich Viedge, hoping to get either a pointer to a good book (been wondering about getting one of those MBA While You Sip Cocktails by the Pool books, but their covers are just so damn ugly!). Instead, what I did get was a half hour long initiation in the fundamentals of business, complete with explanations, contextualization, recaps and homework.

Mister Erich Viedge, you rock!

Some of the input from Erich under How to start a Business, Part 1