Archive for August 25th, 2005
Make Money Online: If you’re already an eBay seller or planning to become one, check out eBay’s Seller Central section on What’s Hot. This gives you a good idea of what sells. With this in mind, you might get more ideas on how to compete in the market.
Business Opportunities Weblog en Español
After a couple month hiatus, I’ve recently relaunched Business Opportunities Weblog en Español, with Miguel Garces providing the translations of my posts, and some original content. If you can read Spanish, be sure to check out these recent posts: Cómo presentar un proyecto empresarial para que sea aceptado Golosinas Caseras Còmo y por què patentar
Going to the Dogs Can Be Rewarding
Startup Journal: Dogs have always been Martin and Cindy Madden’s best friends. Come November, dogs will be their lifework, too. Like entrepreneurs across the country, the San Diego couple — who have owned several award-winning dogs — are seizing on a boom in demand for pet-care services. The Maddens are letting employees run the restaurants [...]
War Taking Toll on the Self-Employed
NY Times: Within months of James J. Maddix’s departure for Iraq, his Big Daddy Taxi service in Kalamazoo, Mich., bit the dust. Big Daddy, which specialized in driving people home from bars, was bringing in about $175,000 a year when Mr. Maddix, 30, was sent on active duty in December 2003. Without him at the [...]
Little Outside Advice Can Help
The Entrepreneurial Mind: Entrepreneurs can get quite isolated. We get into bad habits, ignore issues that need to be addressed but may cause us some discomfort or pain if we change things, and try to avoid dealing with things we just don’t like to deal with. This can be a problem employee who needs to [...]
HispanicBusiness.com: However, the latest government figures indicate that the tide is turning toward more experienced individuals, many of whom may have lost their jobs during the three-year wave of job cutting, which has yet to let up. Unpublished government data obtained by Challenger researchers show that the number of Americans 55 and older categorized as [...]
Chris Pund: Something that pretty much all young entrepreneurs face with starting a business or running one is problems with age discrimination. Although to some, this may not matter and young entreprenuers are becoming more generally accepted, to many seasons business professionals this is a big deal. I have heard and read a lot about [...]
Young Entrepreneurs Drain Labor Pool
The Herman Trend Alert: Early indications suggest that the Millennial Generation, born after 1985, has a strong orientation toward entrepreneurship. They feel confident that they can achieve great results–at least earn a satisfactory living—by going into business for themselves. This population cohort is showing itself to be self-aware, astute, creative, and comfortable taking the risks [...]
Reveries: Matthew Smith is so sure his $50 work shoes will prevent on-the-job injuries that he’ll pay up to $5,000 in “medical expenses and workers’ comp costs” if anyone gets hurt, reports Dee Gill in Inc. (Sep 05). That may sound a little crazy, but Matthew’s guarantee actually has been the key to his company’s [...]
Jason Fried: If you can’t build your version 1 with three people, then 1. you need different people, or 2. you need to slim down your version 1. Now, before I get yelled at, this doesn’t apply to every project, but I do believe it applies to the majority. And sure, if you are building [...]
Getting Things Done In Your Internet Business
Yaro Starak: The web entrepreneur that sets up a good system earns the benefits of flexibility. That is what you are missing when you work for others or you are a slave to your own business. One of the true perks of being an Internet entrepreneur is being able to be as finicky with your [...]
