Archive for October 5th, 2004
Patent Tips for a Small Business
Dennis Crouch, Patent Attorney: 1. If someone at your company has an idea that may be patentable, act quickly. You can lose rights by disclosing the idea publicly or by offering it for sale before filing for a patent application. This type of disclosure can even occur before you make any engineering drawings or working [...]
I’m not sure if he believes it or not, but in a great post on creating thirty second radio spots, Paul Williams captures what I believe is the most important insight into radio and television advertising today: Seems Clear Channel believe[s] bad ads are causing radio listeners to change channels. With a thousand channels to [...]
BusinessWeek: You must be willing to take calculated risks. You must move toward the edge and almost step over it. You must truly utilize out-of-the-box thinking and rat-like cunning. You must be ready to lead by example and empower your teammates to make decisions and handle crisis situations. You must have a management style that [...]
Here are three new bloggers I’ve been meaning to promote*: Jim Bursch has started a new blog detailing his trials and tribulations of taking an idea and trying to turn it into a viable business: The idea is called Quinset: A platform for hosting online talent contests. Accounting for Non-Accountants’ Blog is a new weblog [...]
Finding U.S. Government Grants and Contracts
Deborah Kluge: It’s a lot easier these days to search for and identify federal government grant and contracting opportunities. There are web sites and services that can help you do this: Grants.gov. You can go to this site and search for government grants by keyword, or you can browse them by category or agency. If [...]
Creator of Blogger is a Serial Entrepreneur
Evan Willians, co-founder of the Pyra, the company that created Blogger, is leaving Google just one year and eight months after Google acquired his company. He explains that he’s leaving not because of any conflict, but because he’s a serial entrepreneur and doesn’t like working for someone else: The reason I’m leaving probably comes down [...]
The Role Of Compensation In Startups
Steve Bayle: “A couple of questions from one of the members of the Otter Group about compensation prompted me to post what I think is the role of compensation in startups. Compensation is a management tool, and like any tool can be applied for the benefit of the company or the detriment. More often, it [...]
Creating Info Products to Sell
Entrepreneur: “Can’t think of a subject that you’re qualified to write about? Try compiling a directory. A directory is nothing more than a listing of specialized information targeted to a particular segment of the buying public. For example, my company publishes a drop-ship and wholesale industry directory that lists company names, addresses, phone numbers and [...]
