Archive for August 9th, 2005
Business Week: Owning a bed-and-breakfast used to be the domain of retirees looking for something to occupy them during their golden years. And for these corporate refugees in search of a slower pace in a beautiful location, innkeeping was as much a lifestyle choice as a real occupation. Today, however, a new breed of innkeepers [...]
Server Update And The Resulting Email Backlog
I’ve been fighting with my web host for the past week — they’ve determined the “denial of service”-like attack I’ve been receiving from comment and trackback spanners is somehow my fault. I understand that Movable Type has a tendency to take servers down when heavily spammed, but they’ve been treating me like I’ve been doing [...]
Entrepreneurship vs. Small Business
Jeff Cornwall: A debate has been going on for years in the academic world over the difference, if any, between small business and entrepreneurship. While much of this debate is rather esoteric, there is one instance where I draw a clear line between the two. It centers on private versus public ownership. An IPO is [...]
Business Lessons From Blackjack
Steve Pavlina: “Novices miss golden opportunities. Novice blackjack players will almost invariably play their hands too conservatively. They’ll stand too often when they should hit, and they’ll fail to double down and split pairs as often as they should. They hesitate to hit 16 against a dealer’s 7 or to split a pair of 2s [...]
Planning a Small Business Start Up
Business Plan Coach Blog: I have created my own Top 10 list on starting a business. Green Lights are positive indicators. Red Lights mean slow down — you are moving to fast, take some more time to evaluate. (lists are in no particular order of importance) Green Lights – Go Into Business Lack of structure [...]
Survival Tips for Small Business Spouses
One year ago today: Survival Tips for Small Business Spouses.
