Ubuntu entrepreneurialism

[Patrick]

Hi Alfred

Well that makes five people who are interested in our ubuntu 
entrepreneurism thing ! :-)

My books are a mess and I am afraid I cannot provide any guidance here. 
However I noticed that you wrote "sole proprietor bookkeeping".

If you are just collecting the pieces for your business this is no harm 
but if you are canvasing for business I recommend you incorporate to 
protect your assets or the assets you will have in the near future along 
with your personal credit rating.

Incorporating federally only costs about $220 ish. There is a recurring 
fee every year of about $40 ish but this is well worth the piece of 
mind. I spent three days figuring out how to incorporate. In the end it 
was a complete anti-climax, just a few simple pages. I would be happy to 
show you how to do it, you will sleep better at night.

Again if we could keep up the discussion on how to get this ubuntu 
entrepreneur thing going that would be great. If it is best served on a 
separate mailing list then I will take responsibility for making this 
happen.

Please send in your opinions, thanks-patrick

Alfred wrote:
> Hi I'm slowly putting a little Business together, and trying to learn
> how to use GNUCASH, in Ubuntu 7.10. A local Course here on Quick Books,
> meant I had to buy a new computer to make use of the Vista Software they
> were using, and then Quick Books too and then the course. This way I can
> use my old homemade 2 Ghz Klunker and GNUCASH. To learn the terms I went
> to a website called 
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> http://www.dwmbeancounter.com
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> There is a 7 lessons in Sole Proprietor Bookkeeping. Anyone else
> learning GNUCASH? Some things don't add up just yet, I'll have to do it
> by hand perhaps. Never did accounting before! GnuCash says in the Docs
> that it can be used for Business Purposes. 
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> I'm hoping this isn't Canned Meat!
>
> Alfred!
>
> I tried Virtual Box in the last couple of days, running win 98 from
> inside Ubuntu, but ran into some unexpected problems, like how to add
> the NVidia Drivers, to the Virtual Box, so that the Screen Size is
> bigger than 600x480, in 16 Colours.    
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Az <alt69 at rogers.com>
> Reply-To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community
> <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
> To: ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Ubuntu entrepreneurialism
> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:54:09 -0500
>
> Well Patrick it looked you sparked some life back into this list. :)
>
> I am also one who is interested in the Ubuntu entrepreneurialism, as I also
> see lots of promise for it. I have found no support in Toronto. I am
> learning as I go and I would love to share ideas with anyone.
>
> So, if a group starts up, please keep me posted.
>
> Cheers,
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