Archive for April 29th, 2004
Small Businesses Deliver Meals
CNN: “Fresh food delivery services offering customized meals are gaining acceptance among busy, well-paid professionals, many of whom aren’t battling weight problems. Some say the plans provide balanced meals on days when they otherwise would have worked hours without eating then binge on something they’d regret later. Programs usually include three neatly packaged meals and [...]
Women Entrepreneurs Doing Better Than Men
New York Times: “This year, women own a 50 percent or larger stake in 10.6 million privately held companies, the Center for Women’s Business Research said. This is almost 48 percent of the country’s privately held businesses. Companies owned by women have $2.46 trillion in sales and employ just over 19 million people nationwide, according [...]
Everyone is reporting that Google has filed for an IPO, but the interesting news is that they’re going to auction all of the IPO shares. TheStreet: “‘An auction is an unusual process for an IPO in the United States,’ the company said in the filing. ‘Our experience with auction-based advertising systems has been surprisingly helpful [...]
Business Lessons from Sesame Street
About.com:”The lesson of ‘One of these things is not like the others…’ taught us at an early age to look for patterns and single out the unusual. The simple lesson for small business today is to be different, stand out and you will be noticed. In the list of carpet cleaners which one of these [...]
Jeff Cornwall: “When facing growth, remember that ultimately there is only one type of growth that matters: profits. Never just chase sales for the sake of more sales. Only grow your sales if they also grow your profits. Profits will not ‘just happen’ as you get bigger and sell more. They must be planned for [...]
Small Business Trends: “Chad Moutray, of the U.S. Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy, says [paraphrasing]: America has a very low cost of entry to start a business. That’s why the U.S. is an entrepreneurial country. Also, America’s universities need to focus on entrepreneurs… because half of the population works for small businesses, yet education [...]
Picking a Business Opportunity
When searching for a business opportunity or franchise, don’t get immediately hung up on “how much money can I make?” Startup Journal: “A better first question at the start of a search, if painfully obvious, is to ask yourself: What do you like to do? What sparks your imagination and engages you? How do you [...]
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has published a list of the most dangerous jobs in America. The top 10: Timber cutters Fishers Pilots and navigators Structural metal workers Drivers-sales workers Roofers Electrical power installers Farm occupations Construction laborers Truck drivers via Eugene Volokh and Marginal Revolution.
Lucas Gonze: “In any field where visibility creates success, resources that are online will experience positive feedback at the expense of their offline rivals.” I agree. I’m not going to mention a business opportunity or franchise that I can’t find anything about online, because its not fair to my readers to present something that they [...]
Eight years ago today, on April 29, 1996, pay per click was born in a deal between Proctor & Gamble and Yahoo.
