Archive for August 3rd, 2005
David St Lawrence: You can provide consulting services for businesses and offer them flexibility and responsiveness that they cannot match with in-house resources. If you have the contacts and experience, this is a highly remunerative activity with many of the perks of corporate life. You get to wear power suits, carry a briefcase, and wear [...]
Six Disciplines for Excellence
I was planning to post my review of Gary Harpst’s Six Disciplines for Excellence, but my server troubles have forced that to take a back seat. Anita Campbell, though, has done a fantastic podcast interview with Gary on SMB Trendwire. She writes: Six Disciplines is unlike anything I’ve seen for small businesses. It’s a book. [...]
Today’s Protest Is Tomorrow’s Advertisement
One year ago today: Today’s Protest Is Tomorrow’s Advertisement.
Because of comment spam my webhost has decided to shut down comments. I’ll take recommendations for a new web hosting company by email. I’m sorry for the disruption.
Police Shutdown Boy’s Lemonade Stand
Boston Globe: Dominic Serino, 9, and his neighbor, Ryan Decker, 11, were forced Saturday to shut down their lemonade stand at Salem Common after an employee of a nearby sausage vendor called police, complaining that the boys were hurting his sales. The budding entrepreneurs had to call it quits, under orders by some reluctant police [...]
Female Online Entrepreneur Contest
Rogers Cadenhead: “The Planet, the parent company of the ServerMatrix hosting company I’m using for my servers, is having a contest for female entrepreneurs who have a good idea for an online business. A winner will receive free web hosting for a year, $10,000, and other support. From the press release: Women with a great [...]
What Business Are You Really In?
The Small Business Weblog: The business you’re in may not be the business your in. It’s not doubletalk; it’s reality for many small and large companies. For example, I worked with a client not long ago that had an incredibly ability to promote seminars. Their promotion capabilities were developed over years of promoting their own [...]
Brad Feld: If your answer to “What kind of company are you going to start?” is something like “Well, I have a few different ideas…” stop immediately. You should pick one idea in one domain and go extremely deep on this idea. Optimally, it’d be something you already know a lot about so that you’ll [...]
Mark Cuban:”It doesn’t matter how many times you strike out. In business, to be a success, you only have to be right once.” via Ken Dyck.
Anthony Cerminaro: “The Entrepreneur’s Library, from Cayenne Consulting, is a directory of over 600 resources created to help you build, grow, and run your venture.” Some of the topics covered include: Getting Started Legal Structures Directors & Advisors Planning & Research Business Plans Competitive Analysis
