Archive for December 13th, 2004
Franchising: The Business Strategy That Changed the World
Amazon: “Franchising offers people the opportunity to own and operate their own business. What are the elements of a successful franchised business? The answer may be found through an examination of several of the leading franchises. This book, by a father-daughter business-writing team, presents profiles of ten notable franchises: McDonalds’s, H & R Block, Century [...]
The Basics of Borrowing From Family
Dr. Cornwall: So you are ready to launch your new business, but need about $20,000 to get if off the ground. So you turn to family and friends to help you out. Smart choice? Maybe…. Venture Capitalists make loans based on team members of the deal, but that is because those entrepreneurs are proven business [...]
Thinking by Peter Davidson: “Ever try and get a haircut on a Sunday? It’s not at all easy to do. Most barbers and haircut places are closed tight on Sundays and many on Monday as well. Anybody else smell an opportunity?“
PC World: You’re deep in an online game, storming through a gritty urban landscape. The enemy? A gang of brawling thugs armed with baseball bats. You battle furiously, take out the last villain, and look up in triumph. And the first thing your eyes light upon is a billboard hawking Starbucks. Take note if your [...]
NY Times: “From a marketing perspective, blogs make perfect sense. They are cheap to produce, immersive and interactive. It’s easy to measure their readership and response rates. For small companies, blogs are a quick and dirty promotional tool that cuts out the middleman; for big companies, blogs are a tool of humanization – an informal, [...]
This weeks’s Carnival of the Capitalists is up at Rob Sama’s samaBlog.
