Jun’s Startup Life

I have recently been working very hard to write guest posts for bloggers and publishers that I greatly admire.  I am currently working on getting published on Mashable and Techzulu.  That would be very exciting for me!  Here are two guest posts that I recently wrote that you should take a look at:

• Twitter for business is so Yesterday.  It’s all about Twitter Love - This guest post is for Mike at The Busy Brain.  I write about how you can use Twitter to improve your love life and get you some dates!  Move over Mystery, here comes the Twitter bird!
• How your local business can utilize social media - I am currently working on a social media project for a local company in Beverly Hills.  I decided to reach out to Shama who is an expert in SM consulting to give her readers my input about how a local company can utilize blogs and social media to build their brand and create a community amongst their clients and users.

I hope you guys enjoy the posts and hopefully I’ll be posting up so articles on Mashable and Techzulu soon!

I love Johnny Bunko because I feel like I can totally relate to him.  That’s exactly how I felt when I was in the corporate life: stuck in my cubicle, feeling like my talent was being wasted away.

Maybe if I had read this Manga as an undergraduate, I would have known that the cubicle life was not for me from the very beginning.

Photo by Lucia Holm

Last week I went through a severe depression.  With no money flowing in, a lead developer that left the team, and student loans to pay off, I was pushed to my breaking point.  I contemplated suicide, corporate suicide that is.

My good friend Andrew Warner said it best during an episode of FDTV, “No one will remember your name!”  If you work in the corporate world, you will be forgotten, plain and simple.  If you don’t leave a legacy, if people forget about you the instance you leave this earth, and if your presence on this planet doesn’t positively affect the people around you, then you might as well have not existed.

I actually interviewed with a few firms, and each one reminded me of why I had left the corporate world in the first place.  During one particular interview, I asked my interviewer if his company was open to using the new media to brand itself and develop a conversation with its customers.   My interviewer hesitated for a moment and said:

“My company is open trying new ideas for branding as long as they fit the company goals and vision.  Before we implement any new initiative, we need to talk to the company executives to make sure the new plan fits our budget, that we have the right people for it, and that it fits our future goals.  But yes, we are always open to implementing new ideas that have been proven to work [insert small chuckle].”

Right there is when I knew that going back to the corporate world would be suicide.  Just look at all of the processes that one has to go through to implement something new!

So as an entrepreneur, how can one position himself or herself to be remembered for his or her accomplishments?  These are the 5 steps to being remembered as an entrepreneur:

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