Archive for June 18th, 2004
I still have one more Gmail invite available and will send it to winner of this competition. To enter, make a post on your weblog about the Business Opportunities Weblog with a link back to this site. The post can say anything you like – as long as it lets your readers know about this [...]
Light transmitting concrete to go on sale later this year
http://optics.org/articles/news/10/3/10/1
Startup Journal: “A Columbian woman who tried to smuggle a handgun into a Bogotá prison taught me everything I need to know about effective business writing. Oh, she got the gun in just fine. Her problem was getting it out. She was lucky, though; doctors were able to surgically remove it from her colon. Unfortunately, [...]
What Motivates Today’s Young Entrepreneurs?
Dr. Cornwall: What is driving so many young people to pursue careers as entrepreneurs? Why are my entrepreneurship classes getting so FULL?? StartupJournal.com provides some insights into these trends. The article opens with Duke University, where they are seeing a reverse in this trend. But this is not the reality most of us are seeing [...]
A Wal-Mart Supercenter opens in America approximately every 1.65 days
http://www.metropolismag.com/html/content_0604/amr/index.html
Entrepreneur: Plan Thoroughly Get Organized Before You Get Started Find the Right People Delegate Wisely Inspect What You Expect Measure What Gets Done Keep People Informed via Sam Decker.
Some Technologies Refuse to Die
Wilson Quarterly: “Take dot-matrix printers. Their heyday was in the 1980s, before ink-jet and laser printers came along. Most personal computer users today probably assume that the clickety dot-matrix machines are heard no more. But in fact they’re alive and well, operating under a new, jazzier name (‘impact printing’) and functioning as an industrial tool. [...]
The Revolution Will Be Drop Shipped
ReveNews: “From an affiliate’s point of view, if they’d prefer to be responsible for closing the sale rather than hoping the merchant does, becoming a retailer has become easier than ever, with increasing levels of automation. There are so many varients appearing in this space — from the technically sophisticated to the point-and-click simple — [...]
25 Ways to Innovate in Your Business
Entrpreneur: “How quickly you respond to ideas has the most influence on the number of ideas people will produce. If an idea or other creative work sits on your desk for a week before you respond to it, you’ll have deflated creative energy.” via Ardinger.
Micro-Consultants for Micro-Businesses
David St Lawrence: In the good old days of consulting (the nineties) consultants wore expensive suits, made PowerPoint presentations, and billed at rates from $50 to $200 an hour depending on the client. They spent lots of time in meetings with management, a little time working with client personnel, and the rest of the time [...]
