Archive for February 9th, 2005
Rural Towns Find A New Way To Attract Small Businesses
Law & Entrepreneurship News: The USA today has an excellent article about some small rural Kansas towns attempting to rebuild its economic base and to prevent “brain drain” one family at a time by giving away free land to families willing to relocate. These small towns have decided that luring a big company to come [...]
Write Down Your Business Ideas
Scotsman: One fifth of businessmen and women spend around 25 hours per week dreaming up new business concepts, mainly outside the office, according to a survey out today. This means eight weeks a year are spent on coming up with bright ideas. The most common places for having a business idea included the car, bedroom [...]
Online Business Opportunity: “Google gives us another lesson today – nothing is ever good enough, and no market is ever saturated. Our example today comes from the new Google Maps application.”
Home Business Setup and Exit Strategy
Des Walsh: When I set up my home based business all those years ago it never occurred to me that it would be a smart move to have an exit strategy. After all, I was free of having a boss and I could make my own rules – or so I thought. What I didn’t [...]
About.com Readers Pick Oprah Winfrey as Most Admired Entrepreneur
About.com: “In a recent poll, we asked readers which famous entrepreneur they admired most, among Oprah Winfrey, Bill Gates, Donald Trump, Martha Stewart, Richard Branson, or someone else. Oprah Winfrey was the hands-down winner, garnering a whopping 36% of the vote — nearly double Bill Gates, who was second at 19%.” Who’s your most admired [...]
