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In 1995 I was working for Bank of America in a small 3 person group when word came down from on high that we had to rightsize (I hate that term) by 1/3rd. Being the youngest and last in, I was the first out.
It was not fun being fired and I decided then & there that the only person who would fire me from now on would be me. Which meant going into business myself. I started the Ameristock Mutual Fund out of my home that year and have never looked back. We now employ 8 people and manage over $2 billion in assets.
Kemmons Wilson, that man who founded Holiday Inn tells this story about how he became an entrepreneur.
I was working at a brokerage for $12 a week. When everyone else went home for the day, Kemmons stayed behind and made friends with the bookkeeper. “I got him to show me how to do it, and when he left he recommended me to succeed him. They gave me the job, but after three weeks I was still making $12 a week. The other bookkeeper made $35 a week. I asked for a raise, but they only gave me another $3 a week. So I quit, and that was the last first and last full-time job I ever had working for someone else”.
Whats your story?
Welcome to numia.biz’s blog. I hope you find it informative.
My name is NIck Gerber and I started numia.biz because I run a number of small businesses and I have a hard time keeping track of them all. I have an accountant and a bookkeeper but the accounting software they suggested I use, while OK, was the packaged kind. This meant that to share information we had to email the file back and forth. A cumbersome and risky venture to say the least. What if it got lost or the accountant made an entry that never got updated to my copy?
The solution? Numia.biz an online web accounting software (software as a service or SAAS) with one central database that allows me to enter sales, the bookkeeper to enter payroll & other expenses, the accountant to change entries as needed to make nice profit & loss reports and the banker who gets a view only account.
Check it out and tell me what you think. Lets create a community of like minded creative business people unwilling to take “no” as an answer.
