Archive for November 15th, 2004
Guest blogging for someone else is a little intimidating. I’ll do my best to keep up Dane’s quality. You’ll just get my take on business. When looking at a business opportunity I tend to look at how much time is involved and the rate of return on that investment. For me it all relates to [...]
While I’m away for the next few days these three fantastic bloggers will be guest posting: Ted Armstrong runs, with his wife Karol, Eastern Business Solutions, a an acounting software service company and regularly blogs at Vorlon Whispers. Tim Grahl is chief blogger at Blue Collar Mountain Biking. Geoffrey Gonzalez runs Ahorre Marketing, a Hispanic [...]
Leaving Corporate Life For Your Own Business
Leaving Corporate Life For Your Own Business By PAULETTE THOMAS The Wall Street Journal walks new entrepreneurs on what the 1) The Problem 2) The Solutions are when you are in this transitional mode. The Problem – Gary Dunn knew he lived an enviable life, marketing financial products at Scudder Investments, commuting to his Park [...]
Women Franchisees Seem Few and Far Between
Entrepreneur: Why aren’t more women getting into franchising? Of the more than 320,000 franchise units in the U.S., about 10% are owned solely by women, while another 20% are owned by male-female partners, according to a 1997 study by Women in Franchising Inc. (WIF), the latest data available. A lack of access to capital is [...]
2nd Annual $10,000 Boomer Business Plan Competition
It’s time for the 2nd Annual $10,000 Boomer Business Plan Competition. The competition is co-sponsored by Santa Clara University’s Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the American Society on Aging’s Business Forum on Aging, and Mary Furlong & Associates. A $10,000 award will go to the winner of the Boomer Business Plan Competition, to be held [...]
Entrepreneur Terry Gold has started a list of things no one tells you when you start a business. Lots of very good advice, including: Being an entrepreneur is like being on a roller coaster 24 hours a day. Every entrepreneur I’ve talked to relates to this. The highs and lows will come fast and furious [...]
