Archive for April 5th, 2005

Business Entity Comparison Table

Entreworld: “This is a summary of the various forms of company structure you can use for your business, organized in a chart that’s easy to review. You can compare the sole proprietorship, limited liability company (LLC), general partnership, S-corporation and C-corporation types along an exhaustive set of criteria, including initial business formation, duration, liability issue, [...]

 

National Property Inspections

→ npiweb.com National Property Inspections, Inc. is one of the oldest and most widely respected names in the residential and commercial property inspection business, with experience and knowledge in home, building, and commercial property inspections. Each year they perform tens of thousands of inspections in the United States and Canada with clients ranging from home [...]

 

From A Year Ago

One year ago today: How to Fire Employees Start Up: An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Launching and Managing a New Business Am I an Entrepreneur?

 

Stop Flying Solo: Get A Partner Stop Flying Solo: Get A Partner

I’ve been thinking about finding the perfect business partner recently. When you’re looking for a partner, you don’t want a clone of yourself, rather you want someone that compliments your strengths, makes up for your weaknesses and can offer a different perspective. Adam Rifkin has more: Whereas finding a romantic partner is such a regular [...]

 

Invention Contests

Entrepreneur: “Winning a contest is a great way to achieve the kind of success many inventors only dream about. Sponsored by major companies like Staples and Procter & Gamble, these invention contests offer entrepreneurs major market introduction opportunities. Of course, you can’t win if you don’t enter. Check out the websites for the United Inventors [...]

 

GreenZap GreenZap

Paypal wasn’t always the dominant way to send and receive money online. When they were young and trying to attract an audience, they gave away money to everyone who signed up for an account. Today, a new company called GreenZap announced that they are going challenge Paypal for the space: GreenZap is set up to [...]

 

Promoting Your Self Published Book

David St Lawrence: If you choose to self-publish, you will find yourself with a few weeks of almost-free time while the printers are figuring out how to print your book. It is during this time that you must take off your author hat and put on your publisher hat. It is time to think in [...]

 

What Else Not to Sell on Ebay What Else Not to Sell on Ebay

Sydney Johnston continues her great advice about what not to sell on eBay: My second nomination for the Lame Idea About What To Sell On eBay Award is the entire idea about finding “hot” products. If you really want to know what’s sizzling, what’s fiery H-O-T, spend a few hours watching the infomercials on TV. [...]

 

VCs are Flush with Cash

The Entrepreneurial Mind: Venture Capitalists were busy raising money in 2004 and have some very full pockets of cash. The phenomenon is known as overhang, and you can read about it here (PDF). More cash means more deals and probably a little bit looser purse strings with the investments they are willing to take. Good [...]