Starting your own business

This post is to put together links to useful information about starting your own business:

1. New York Times' Small Business section: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/business/smallbusiness/index.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1259524816-DEabVUyXrN6xmccjLiYHng
2. Small Business 101: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/02/business/smallbusiness/01websb101.html
3. Networking sites for startups: http://smallbizbee.com/index/2010/02/02/ultimate-list-40-social-networking/
4. SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives): http://www.score.org/index.html
5. Seattle SCORE: http://www.seattlescore.org/default.aspx

Because it's there! (and free)

So someone asks the avid mountain climber why he climbs mountains. His answer? "Because it's there".

Last weekend I stumbled on an interesting blog about Sun's VirtualBox virtualization software. So I decided to give it a try. What the heck, it was free anyways. And yes, because it was there.

Surprisingly (to me atleast) it installed without a hitch on my home machine.

Once installed, you can setup what's called a Guest OS, to virtualize. I decided to choose Linux. That's right, because it's free, and it's there. So I downloaded Ubuntu's desktop iso, setup the necessary settings in VirtualBox's Guest OS UI, and presto, had Ubuntu Linux up and running. Again surprisingly (to me atleast) without a hitch.

Very impressive.