Archive for August 13th, 2004
When I was young and used to dream of a future profession, I imagined that I’d someday sit behind a large metal desk in a shadowy office located through beaded curtains from a smoky Moroccan bar. People would bring queries on scraps of paper and I’d search through my files or dispatch investigators to discover [...]
Ebay / Craigslist Deal is a Big Deal?
A reader wrote: Ebay bought Craigslist? It’s a small business that didn’t have any major VC pumped into it and wasn’t even being marketed to a major player like eBay. It shows that either eBay is a perceiving them as a threat (unlikely) b) interested in the profitability of such a site (somewhat unlikely with [...]
The U.S. Small Business Administration announced today that, with almost two full months still remaining in the fiscal year, it has already backed more loans in one year than ever before in its 51-year history.
Maximizing the Utlization of the Underutilized
Dan Sherman: I was driving home today and saw something that I just LOVED. It was a Jiffy Lube implementing guerilla marketing tactics. I was so tickled I almost went in to try to talk to the franchise owner, if he/she were there, to congratulate them. They had an employee out on the major street [...]
