Archive for October 21st, 2004
Dear Fellow Bloggers, When someone asks you to remove a comment that they made on your weblog, what do you do? Do you remove it? Do you require that they prove that they posted the comment? How? Do you make a notation on the page indicating that you’ve removed a comment? I was planning to [...]
Nick Infusino: “Thus, today a small business could mean anything from a company with one employee, to the largest company in the world that has experienced great growth within the last twenty years, to the largest company in the world that has just purchased a small business, to a doctor who has a 1/100th interest [...]
Stay-at-Home Moms Get Entrepreneurial
WSJ: Tamara Monosoff, a former business consultant and Clinton White House staffer, quit work to stay at home when her daughter Sophia was born. Then she found herself annoyed by the constant need to re-roll the toilet paper Sophia unraveled onto the floor. So she invented a special latch to prevent the problem. Now, she [...]
25 Part-Time Businesses to Start Today!
Entrepreneur: Ever dream of running a part-time business while keeping your day job? Want to operate a sideline business along with your current business? Or are you simply curious about entrepreneurship, and want to test the waters before you commit to the world of commerce? Whatever your reason, here are 25 sure-fire ways to get [...]
Poll: Small Businesses Have A Positive Impact
Startup Journal: n a poll conducted by the National Federation of Independent Business, people rated institutions or sectors in society, as having a positive, negative, or neutral influence. Topping the list was science and technology, with 86% of respondents saying the area had a favorable impact. Small business took the runner-up spot with 78%, while [...]
I was going to link to one of Chuck Huckaby’s recent posts, but the stories made me think of some kind of entrepreneur tabloid, and I couldn’t narrow bring myself to just chose one. Instead, here are four: Publisher Receives $4,500 bill for Collecting Own Mail! Woman Fined For Being “Unofficial” Tour Guide Homeschooling Family [...]
Small Business Loans Hit Record Level in 2004
Inc.: The Small Business Administration last week reported record lending results in 2004, surpassing previous marks in two of its major loan programs and lending record amounts to women, minorities, and veterans. According to its results for fiscal year 2004, which ended on Sept. 30, the SBA backed 74,825 7(a) loans totaling $12.5 billion to [...]
Fortune Small Business: “The origins of some companies are so familiar that they almost qualify as folklore. Everyone knows that Bill Gates left college to launch Microsoft. Or that Martha Stewart was a stockbroker before founding her media empire. We wanted less obvious choices: the visionaries behind name-brand companies such as Bose and Mag Instruments [...]
They Made America is a four-part series from PBS coming in November: American history is filled with the stories of influential innovators, whose ideas and entrepreneurial spirit gave birth to commercial milestones like the steamboat and cultural touchstones like the Barbie doll. Twelve of these individuals are profiled in They Made America, a four-part television [...]
