Archive for May 19th, 2004
Internet Lowers Real Estate Commissions
KFMB TV: Real estate and mortgage brokers have less of a hold on clients from the start of the home-buying process, according to a national study which researchers at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock helped organize. More Americans are doing Internet research before they make their first calls when starting to buy a [...]
Business 2.0 takes on and exposes the secrets of Nick Denton’s Gawker Media blogging empire: Of course, if it were that simple, everyone would be doing it. Denton, 37, has figured out a couple of tricks. By offering fame rather than fortune, he’s persuaded talented writers to work for him for less money than they’d [...]
Pitch A VC Your Billion-Dollar Idea
Time Draper of Draper Fisher Jurvetson: “At the end of 2003, I invited entrepreneurs from all over the world to post their ideas to my AlwaysOn blog. I then selected 10 entries from over 110 postings, and these winning entrepreneurs had the opportunity to pitch their ideas to me face-to-face, using VidiTel’s videoconferencing. I will [...]
How To Avoid Work at Home Scams and What To Do When You’re A Victim
Vishal P. Rao: “As more and more people opt-out of conventional jobs and instead choose to work from their homes, the number of work at home scams has also increased. Each year thousands of people find out the hard way that opportunities which are too good to be true usually are but not before they [...]
Circle Lending is a company that facilitates interpersonal loans between friends, relatives, and other less formal partnerships. For centuries, individuals have been lending money to their relatives, friends and business associates. Today, the volume of these interpersonal loans is over $89 billion according to the Federal Reserve Board’s Survey of Consumer Finances. Despite this substantial [...]
Worthwhile: America was founded on the Puritan work ethic, which can be roughly defined as: If you like it, stop doing it immediately. It’s this philosophy which has given rise to much of our thinking about work, including the currently popular “work-life balance” — as if the two were as polar opposite as good and [...]
Startup Journal: “You don’t have to have a revolutionary new idea to start a business. Deborah Jacobson, author of 150 Jobs You Can Start Today: Creative Ways to Make Money Now, has started several small businesses on a part-time basis. All you need is something to sell and a business card.” A business card and [...]
