Archive for November 22nd, 2004
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Entrepreneur magazine is predicting these four strategies smart entrepreneurs will be using in 2005: Tap the countertrend. For every trend, there’s a potentially lucrative countertrend waiting to be noticed. Eat off the big guys’ plate. Trend agency Trendwatching.com coined the term “feeder business” for companies that feed off giants like Amazon or eBay. Switch the [...]
David Bayless: “The history of entrepreneurship research and journalism is replete with celebrations of entrepreneurial genius; analysis of the distinctive characteristics of successful entrepreneurs; and assertions that entrepreneurs are born, not made. Those messages are, in a perverse way, comforting to those of us who are less accomplished, because they relieve us of responsibility. But, [...]
This week’s Carnival of the Capitalists is up at Gregory Narain’s SocialTwister.
Business 2.0: More than ever, launching a business today is all about connections — starting with broadband connections. In the past 24 months, there’s been a quiet surge in the geographic spread of high-speed Internet networks, and that has dramatic implications for economic development, jobs, and entrepreneurial opportunities. About 51 percent of U.S. Internet users [...]
Blogospher Doubles Every Five Months
Clickz: “The size of the blogosphere has doubled every five months over the last year and a half, according to blog analysis firm Technorati. Over that time, blogs have gone from being a word that sounded insulting to an online trend embraced even by a sexagenarian Massachusetts senator running for president. Given the frenetic pace [...]
Boredom is Bad: Evaluating Your Business Idea
Angie McKaig is running an interesting series of posts about starting an internet business. The most recent entry is about evaluating an idea: “Is it conceivable that if you live and breathe this topic for the next two+ years, you will still be interested in it? That sounds like an easy question, but believe me [...]
Mr. Handyman To Give Away A Franchise
PR Newswire: Do you think you’ve got what it takes to own and operate one of America’s premier franchises? If so, Mr. Handyman and FranNet (“The Franchise Connection”) are offering a unique opportunity to aspiring entrepreneurs. Mr. Handyman and parent company Ann Arbor MI-based Service Brands International, along with FranNet, the world’s largest network of [...]
Survey: Luxury of Home Working ‘A Myth’
BBC News: “Less than 50% of people who work from home are satisfied with their home office space, with a quarter of them forced to work in the kitchen, 37% in the spare room and 10% hotdesking it to anywhere they can find, according to a survey by Lexmark.” via Mahalanobis.
Research the Business Idea to See if it’s Viable
John Osher, a very successful entrepreneur, is making a list of the major mistakes he’s made. He thinkings that the biggest mistake entrepreneurs cane make is failing to spend enough time researching the business idea to see if it’s viable: “This is really the most important mistake of all. They say 9 [out] of 10 [...]
