Welcome to Despreneur
Here you’ll find the tools and resources to turn your entrepreneurial ideas and dreams a reality.
We teach you the design and development skills to bring your ideas to life, then show you step-by-step how to market yourself and your skills to maximise your success.
Hi, I’m Elliott Davidson. As the Founder of Despreneur, I can tell you first hand how exciting it is to launch your own business from scratch.
But at the very same time, when you’re the boss, you’re the one responsible for creating your own destiny. It’s exciting, yes, but it can also feel scary, lonely, and uncertain.
Luckily, you don’t have to do it alone.
With the tools and resources you’ll find here on Despreneur, you have everything you need to achieve the high levels of success you’ve always wanted. So take a minute to browse around, join our community, and make it a habit to learn as much as you can. When you continually improve your skills day after day, you’ll ensure your business remains competitive (and profitable) in a fast-paced world that’s constantly delivering groundbreaking technologies and endless numbers of exciting opportunities.
Click here to join our community today.
Despreneur Academy
Over the last 5 years, I’ve gained loads of valuable business, design, and entrepreneurship skills (many of which I’ve learned the hard way).
Everything I’ve learned, I’ve compiled into my flagship course specifically for designers who want to get started learning the skills they need to become a successful design entrepreneur: Despreneur Academy.
This course will give you everything you need to start your own web design freelance business — Inside, you’ll find lessons on everything from the basics of design, to the business side of things like marketing yourself and gaining new clients.
Click here to learn more about Despreneur Academy.
Despreneur Newsletter
If you like the podcasts, blog posts, and other content on Despreneur and want to stay updated on everything as it happens, join over 13,000+ other subscribers in our FREE Despreneur Newsletter.
Whether you’re a designer, developer, or entrepreneur, you’ll get all of our best content straight to your inbox, AND to get you started, you’ll receive a completely FREE 7-Day course on Web Design & Development Fundamentals.
Here’s everything that’s inside:
- Lesson 1 — HTML basics
- Lesson 2 — CSS basics
- Lesson 3 — Responsive design
- Lesson 4 — Hacking typography
- Lesson 5 — Basic colour theory
- Lesson 6 — The importance of whitespace
- Lesson 7 — Getting visual hierarchy right
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Most Popular Posts
Here are our most popular most popular and valuable resources on Despreneur, organized by topic. Since the launch of Despreneur, we’ve helped over 2 million people gain the skills they need to become successful design entrepreneurs.
Entrepreneurship
- Top 20 Most Inspiring Quotes from World Business Icons
- 10 Personal Branding Tips
- 10 Reasons To Start Design Business Now
- Everyday I Wake Up And Thank God I Got Fired
Technology
- Best Tools to Build Your App Prototype in a Day
- 40 Useful Apps To Make Your Life Better
- Useful Mac Keyboard Shortcuts Worth Memorizing
- 50 HTML5 Tools for Designers & Developers
Resources & Freebies
- 15 Best Free Stock Photo Websites
- Best Free Fonts for Mobile App Designs
- 10 Essential Tools for Startups
- 15 Free Photoshop Extensions for Designers