Archive for November 2nd, 2004
Payless Car Rental System, Inc.
→ paylesscarrental.com Payless Car Rental is a privately held company and is part of the Avalon Global Group of companies. Founded in 1971, Payless offers the lowest available car rental rates on all vehicles! While many of the major car rental companies focus on buying back franchise agreements to open more corporate stores, Payless® continues [...]
The Regional Economist: Observers comparing the U.S. economy with the economies of other countries often note that Americans seem to be much more willing to become entrepreneurs. Indeed, a recent survey found that more than 70 percent of adult Americans would prefer being an entrepreneur to working for someone else.1 In contrast, the same survey [...]
Tom Waugh wrote: I’m an aspiring entrepreneur. I have a lot of ideas as far as inventions go and I’ve researched every aspect of the ideas. The problem is that I have no idea how to get any of them off the ground. I know about business planning and all but I’ve tried to contact [...]
Getting Your Startup Paperwork in Order
Entrepreneur: “Entrepreneurs aren’t known for being lazy, but most entrepreneurs I know are notoriously lazy about doing legal paperwork. But there’s no place for laziness when it comes to getting licenses and permits for your business. It might seem like an insignificant detail or a waste of money, but it’s necessary. This article provides some [...]
Atlanta Business Chronicle: “I’m sure you’d agree that most people don’t call a plumber when they’re just thinking about a little work. Most people don’t call an electrician when they are just wondering about their electrical system. Most of us call these people when we need help fast.” More accurately, most of us ONLY call [...]
Startup Journal: Approximately 750,000 Americans live and work out of travel trailers, truck campers or motor homes, says Greg Robus, editor of Workamper News, a 74,000-circulation publication based in Heber Springs, Ark. “Quite a few of our readers are what we call workampreneuers,” Mr. Robus says. “They either take a business that they already have [...]
Finders Keepers, Founders Weepers
Paul Allen: “I have heard that Ray Noorda (Novell fame) used to say, Finders Keepers, Founders Weepers to indicate that most of the time inventors and entrepreneurs don’t end up with much. Business savvy investors and later stage business managers can often clean up for themselves, leaving entrepreneurs with nothing but the pride of knowing [...]
Computer World: “Bloggers who write anything negative or defamatory about a corporation or an individual are opening themselves and their companies up to the possibility of libel suits, says David Carr, an attorney and partner at London-based consulting firm Big Blog Co.” I’ve already experience this first hand. A month or so ago, I received [...]
