Archive for April 12th, 2005

If You Like to Follow The Rules, Buy A Franchise!

Smart Money: Franchisors prefer working with people who can follow the rules, rather than true entrepreneurs, says Jeff Elgin, CEO of FranChoice, an Eden Prairie, Minn., consulting firm that coaches people in choosing a franchise. If you’ve got strong feelings about everything from the kinds of products you’ll be selling to the color of the [...]

 

Angels Looking for Deals

Jeff Cornwall: StartupJournal reports that angle investors are “dusting off their calculators and starting to get serious” about doing deals. They are coming together in increasing numbers in both formal networks and informal investment clubs to find good deals to invest in. They also seem to be branching out in the types of deals they [...]