Archive for August 25th, 2004
Sergio Samoilovich, Ph.D. has developed a system to create unique inks, so that the ink in a signature would be as unique as the signature itself: We want to develop a complete system for producing, delivering and supporting one custom ink per customer, that will add safety to signatures and rubberstamps. This ink is obtained [...]
Law & Entrepreneurship News Previewed
Law & Entrepreneurship News, a new weblog by University of Wisconsin Law School Professor Gordon Smith and his students, will officially launch on September 1 but is already begining to fill with content.
Brain Brew Blog: “This week’s Brain Brew Radio brings you ideas for starting instructional services, making a transition from old format to new, living longer, finding star-up funds, living a more fulfilling life, making big-time money out of small-time success, selling a patent, and contesting the rising inflation rates of today’s markets. Also, our 30 [...]
Today’s New Entrepreneurs Shun Brick and Mortar
NY Times: Mr. Mohrer, a 2004 graduate of a joint degree program at Columbia University and the Jewish Theological Seminary, decided to continue building a company that primarily sells Ralph Lauren Polo shirts and other designer clothes on eBay and its own Rationalfashion.com Web site. What he says he will never do is run his [...]
USA Today: “About 27% of self-employed workers did not have health insurance in 2002, up from 24.6% in 2001, according to new data from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Figures for 2003, expected this week, will likely show another jump, Kaiser says. Overall, 18.1% of all workers lack insurance.”
Designing A Better Yellow Page Listing
Marketing coach and the author John Jantsch recommends that you only let the Yellow Page salesperson design your listing if you want it to look like all the other listings: “big, with a border, with color with, your name big and bold at the top.” If you’d rather that your listing stand out, follow his [...]
A VC: I had lunch yesterday with a friend who is a running a growing startup business. He is the upstart in a two company market. The established company is starting to notice his company. And apparently the established company is “giving away” their service in certain situations in an attempt to stop the upstart [...]
Barry Moltz: The price we charge customers for our products and services is a lot less elastic than we think – that is, as we raise prices, we lose a lot less customers than we fear. If you build value in your product, people will buy it within a large price range (unless, of course, [...]
All Business Schools Directory: “Whether you’re searching for part-time MBA programs, full-time MBA programs, or online MBA programs — or looking to get your bachelor’s degree in business or associate’s degree in business — All Business Schools makes it easy to find the programs that interest you. Search for business schools by location, program type, [...]
