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home office freelancing, eagle or turkey?

In these times of greater flexibility, many desire to work at home.

Some giant companies have been started in a garage somewhere like microsoft and yahoo and grew to giants, while others just make a freelancer a living, and some are simply dismal failures.

Is there a special kind of person who can work freelance from a home office without a boss cracking the whip?

Are some of us destined to always drive 50km to work and sit in an open plan office with a boss watching us from his corner glass-walled office for ever?

In previous posts I’ve interviewed hot new start ups and  I asked what you would do with 20,000 seed money to work on your own business. I’ve asked this question of many people and it’s surprising how few really have a clear vision or dream of what they want. They can tell you what they don’t want, but can’t sketch out their desired future. Can You?

Here’s a great competition you can enter. I’ll be interviewing one of the contestants here. so watch this space.

What work do you do as a freelancer? write, design, sell, manage?

How do you keep yourself motivated and on target?

Do you hang around with turkeys or eagles?

Do you use use others success to motivate you or depress you?
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If you had 20,000 to start a new business idea

So let’s suppose you won 20,000 dollars, Euro, pounds, francs whatever you prefer. What would you do with it?

Do you have a hot business idea you think no one else is doing? What sector would that new business be in.

Just tell us the basic idea, we know you are probably scared someone will steal your idea, so don’ give us all the details just the idea. I’m just curious to see how many peoples’ dreams are on ice because of lack of seed capital.

Is it a grand idea like yattoo free TV on your computer, or laptop, a new gadget or simply to set up a home office and work freelance from home?

Write in and tell us we’d like to share your vision.

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moving in small spaces with vision and vivacity

big companies rethinking
moving in small spaces with vision and vivacity. This is what start ups must do, last month I had the pleasure of interviewing Tech startups at a meet up in Zurich at Techcrunch.
There were 40 startups there and some really stood out like amazee where you can manage collaborations and projects online.
Watch video interviews

Wua.la social network storage solutions, Yattoo free TV on your laptop, W2ML a simple writing platform, Poken a new social, virtual gadget, Yes.com music sharing and voting for your site, and an opportunity to win 100,000 dollars by downloading itunes.

So many brilliant tech ideas from the sharpest minds in the business.
I’ll be featuring some of their interviews here over the following weeks. So subscribe to Wise queen on the RSS feed

Here’s the Yes.com interview with

Daniel Goldscheider

Hi Daniel

Where is your home town?
I was born in Vienna, Austria

Where are you living now?
I live in Lachen, Switzerland

What did you study after school?
I left University of Economics in Vienna

What did you want to be when you grew up?
Crane Operator
Austrian Prime Minister
First directly elected President of Europe

Tell me how yes came about
YES was conceived as a simple way to get the song you hear on radio and grew into a social medium after that.

Explain yes.com and radio reborn to me?
Radio has recently celebrated its 100th birthday. It’s old and it hasn’t changed much. YES adds a number of dimensions:

- see music videos that are synchronized with what you hear
-meet other people listening to the same broadcast
-vote for songs and influence the listener charts
-buy 4 songs from iTunes and win $100,000 if you match the station’s 4Tunes of that day.

What is your vision for this company?
I believe that YES will be a leading platform to enjoy broadcasts

What would you like to do next?
Something completely different.

What do your family think of your job?
My father is an advisor to the company, my mother would prefer a less demanding job offering more security

What are you most proud of professionally?
I am not proud yet.

Which book are you reading at the moment?
“God is not great” by Christopher Hitchens

What other profession would you like to try?
Too many including architect, lawyer, politician

Thanks,good to meet you at techcrunch.
Absolutely!

I hope to see you soon again,
Daniel

Why do some startups soar and others nose dive? Do you know? Have you initiated a startup and seen it succeed or fail. We’d like to hear from you good or bad. We learn more from failure than success
sometimes.

Write to us with your story well publish your site and story if it’s useful.
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