Archive for April 8th, 2005
Entreworld: “Launching your first product? Get by with a little help from your friends at an inventors’ group. An inexperienced inventor can gain valuable knowledge and insights by joining such a group. Here are the steps, told in case-study style, you can take to find the right group and make the most of your membership.”
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Eye Contact – A Clue to Ownership
Des Walsh: “On Saturday I went to the mall to buy a printer cartridge at the electronics store. The young guy was keen to serve me, alert, attentive, processed the credit card, gave me the bag with the item in it, said ‘Thanks’ in an offhand way and looked somewhere off to the left. Maybe [...]
Monster Blog: “According to a recent study, 81 percent of people had their best ideas outside of the office. Top places for idea generation? The car, in bed and socializing. Six percent of us have our best ideas in the bathroom.”
Is Bankruptcy Law Bad for Entrepreneurship?
The Entrepreneurial Mind: An article at Knowledge@Emory raises an interesting possibility. They question whether the newly passed Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 may dampen our entrepreneurial economy. Why? Because so many entrepreneurs use personal credit cards and second mortgages on their homes to finance start-ups. For these entrepreneurs, easy bankruptcy provides [...]
