Archive for January 24th, 2005
Craigslist And Cottage Industries
Kottke: “I’d never really thought about it before, but in some ways, [Craigslist] helps lots of people build businesses cheaper and more effectively than more “robust”, complex, and expensive enterprise software solutions. Movers are just one example. CL can help you find employees for your business. If you’ve got a van, you can pick up [...]
Birth of an Industry: IPod Loading
NY Times: It sounds like a line from a spam e-mail: Work from home! Low risk! Flexible schedule! Earn hundreds of dollars each gig! But an emerging group of resourceful entrepreneurs says there is no catch. The rising popularity of Apple’s sleek iPod has created a new niche service: the professional iPod loader. There are [...]
Collections & Hobbies Can Become Real Businesses
CBS Market Watch: An estimated 430,000 Americans make a full- or part-time living from running a business on eBay, says spokesman Hani Durzy. “It offers a level playing field to businesses of all sizes,” Durzy says. Ninety percent of eBay’s volume is small businesses and individual sellers — it’s one place where big businesses fear [...]
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Carnival of the Capitalists. There were tons of great posts last week in the capitalist blogosphere: David Tufte wondered, in voluntaryXchange: “when is a good worth more when you remove what makes it a good (e.g., a musician wonders whether his reel-to-reel masters of past studio work are [...]
