Archive for August 6th, 2004
Entrepreneur.com: “The greatest security you may have is what you create for yourself. When the job market sucks, and your own job is shaky at best, what are your options? Perhaps franchising is the answer that will enable you to enjoy the benefits of all your hard work and ease your worries about plant relocations, [...]
Peerspective: “Remember, the 50-plus market has 43 percent of the country’s total discretionary income — and 77 percent of all financial assets in the U.S. — according to the census. And with the Boomers going gray, you ain’t seen nothing yet.”
Robert Frank: “Considerable evidence suggests that if we use an increase in our incomes, as many of us do, simply to buy bigger houses and more expensive cars, then we do not end up any happier than before. But if we use an increase in our incomes to buy more of certain inconspicuous goods — [...]
A interesting discussion is developing in this post about great examples of two businesses in one: This morning, I had breakfast at my favorite new cafe, Scene It. Scene It is two businesses in one, being both a cafe and a travel agency. The front portion is what’s you’d expect in a cafe: tables and [...]
Dave Pollard: “The big guys don’t want to innovate (they think it’s expensive and risky), they don’t have to innovate (in today’s economy it’s easier for them to litigate, pre-emptively patent and buy out innovators than to develop anything radically new themselves), and they’re no good at innovating (they’re too big, too inflexible, and too [...]
