Entrepreneurship

Here are two articles with recession tips for web designers and developers. I figure that they also apply to most types of businesses.

There's no new advice here but the points are definitely worth remembering. Take a look:

• Recession Tips For Web Designers
• Top 10 Reasons Why Many Freelance Designers and Fresh Start Up Design Firms Fail

David Armano, from the interactive services firm Critical Mass, suggests 10 Ways Digital Can Help You Thrive in a Recession. It's a US-focused slideshow presentation but also applies to British small businesses.

I share it because several points correspond with our approach when building sites:

In this video, David Heinemeier Hansson, co-founder of 37signals, talks about how build a sustainable on-line business. 37signals builds Basecamp, a successful online project management tool which, incidentally, is what we use for our own projects.

Here's a summary for you: