Archive for November 13th, 2004
Clearing the Hurdles : Women Building High-Growth Businesses
Amazon: “Starting, funding, and growing a new venture are significant challenges for every entrepreneur. For women, the hurdles are even higher, due to widely held perceptions about them, their capabilities, and their businesses. Now, five leading experts on women entrepreneurs offer systematic solutions to the challenges, offering timely advice to women dedicated to achieving success [...]
Fast Company: Hot Ideas for 2005
Fast Company has posted their list of 101 urprising people, ideas, and trends that will change how we work and live in 2005. I would link to some of my favorites, but then I’d end up listing to all of them. Go read it!
Today is the fourth third birthday of the Business Opportunities Weblog. If you think the name is long now, when I started the site four threeyears ago, the name was “The Moderated Listed of Legitimated Business Opportunities for Entrepreneurs.” Quite a mouthful, don’t you think? (To my wife, Angie Carlson, and my father, John Henry [...]
News.com: A new kid on the block promises to give offshore outsourcing a run for its money–by routing technology work to rural America. Rural Sourcing is a start-up founded and largely funded by Kathy White, former chief information officer for health care giant Cardinal Health. White, also Rural Sourcing’s president, has set up two facilities [...]
Trader Mike: In case you missed it (like I did), CNBC is re-airing ‘The Age of Wal-Mart’ Sunday at 9 PM (EST) and again at midnight (12 AM Monday EST). I’ve seen clips of it and read/heard some comments about it and it seems intriguing. (The Donald even called in to congratulate David Faber on [...]
Audio Interview About Blogging for Entrepreneurs
Paul Chaney of Radiant Marketing Group: “Last Wednesday evening I had the privilege of being the guest speaker in a teleclass with Coachamatic’s Andy Wibbels on the subject of business blogging for solo entrepreneurs. Here’s a link to the audio of that interview. It’s 55 min. long and weighs 16 MB.”
More 20somethings Finding Ways to be Their Own Boss
Associated Press: Nationwide, it’s difficult to estimate the number of young small business owners: The federal Small Business Administration does not keep statistics by age. But there are signs of growth. The Virginia-based Young Entrepreneurs’ Organization — a group founded in 1987 that requires $1 million in annual sales before it will admit a business [...]
