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2008 How Design Conference Notes: Financial planning for solo designers

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presented by Shel Perkins, author of Talent is Not Enough: Business Secrets for Designers. (original description)

  • you need to have adequate startup capital to cover the first two years
  • most start with savings and personal loans
  • most only last about three years
  • essential to work with a CPA
  • because you’re self-employed, you need to make quarterly tax pre-payments

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Back from Boston

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I’m back from Boston, where I attended the 2008 How Design Conference. It was interesting to be among ~4000 other designers, and there were iPhones & Blackberries, MacBooks & messenger bags as far as the eye could see (I went unplugged for the most part, except for a few tweets and a visit to the Apple Store). I like Boston’s balance of historical architecture, metropolitan pace and New England culture (I had a cuppa chowda every day for lunch). In the coming days, I’ll be posting my notes from some of the standout sessions.