Archive for September 2005
Carnival of Personal Finance # 13
This week’s Carnival of Personal Finance is up at Smart Money Daily.
Amazon: After a brief career in professional bodybuilding, Jake Steinfeld found his calling in helping others pump themselves up. Beginning as a personal trainer to Hollywood celebrities, he soon started his remarkably successful Body by Jake brand of health and fitness programs. Now he hopes to motivate readers to start their own businesses. His experience [...]
Start-Up Money: 7 Sources to Consider
NFIB: Many entrepreneurs opening small businesses need money, but most of them aren’t sure where to get it. While many sources of money for small businesses exist, some avenues are more accessible than others. Here are seven suggestions to consider when you find yourself in this position: Personal Savings Equity in Your Home Credit Cards [...]
Geoff Cook: Highschoolstartups will not help you run your babysitting business or increase sales of your lemonade stand. We will not invent silly jargon or paint on overly optimistic picture of the brutal world of e-commerce. This site is for young people serious about starting a business on the web. You will discover nuts and [...]
The Next Step in Outsourcing: Online Tutors
Entrepreneur Almost Daily: Earlier this month, we blogged about the federal funds available for tutoring companies. Today, the New York Times features a company that’s doing quite well in the online tutoring arena by outsourcing their work to Indian tutors. According to the article, customers are charged $20 per hour compared to an average of [...]
Jennifer Lawton in Entrepreneur’s Byline: For entrepreneurs who don’t have a plan, it’s OK! But… don’t just wash your hands of it. In the early days, when NDA had a “no-plan plan,” that might have been too little. Now that we have many plans, perhaps that is too much: we need to make sure planning [...]
Hispanic Business: Martha Llamas began her career as a cleaning lady in office buildings making $5.50 an hour. Today, she owns her own company employing 60 people and grossing more than $1 million annually. “I never dreamed of getting paid what I’m getting paid now,” says Ms. Llamas of Mesa, Arizona. Ten years after going [...]
Starting Something : An Entrepreneurs Tale of Control, Confrontation Corporate Culture
Amazon: In 1996, when architect/designer/visionary hipster Wayne McVicker and a partner launched the healthcare website, Neoforma.com, he just wanted to live the life of a creative entrepreneur while helping make the world a better place. He soon realized that he’d climbed aboard a careening, billion-dollar roller coaster ride. This is a story of survival in [...]
One year ago today: Customers Won’t Buy Won’t They Can’t Understand.
I don’t read Spanish very well, but if you do, you might enjoy these recent posts from Business Opportunities Weblog en Español: Selecciòn de Mercado ¿Còmo? ¿Anécdota de profesor de business school o realidad? El dominio del tiempo Rentable Por Sí Mismo. El poder de los libros Espíritu emprendedor y conocimiento Reducir emisiones es negocio [...]
Starting Small Businesses Later in Life
Small Business Trends: [There is a] growing trend of people in the United States starting businesses later in life or after retirement. And he’s got lots of company. Yahoo Small Business commissioned Harris Interactive to conduct a survey to gauge entrepreneurial attitudes back in April 2005. Of those surveyed, 56% said they wanted to own [...]
Good Ebay Listings, or Why We Usually Don’t Make Out at the Beginning of a Blind Date
eBay Seller Central: Quite a few eBay listings start with bulleted lists of features. In boxing this would be called leading with your chin. In the dating world, I’d describe this as trying make out with a blind date when you first pick her up. Feature lists are important to listings, but you don’t want [...]
Advice to Entrepreneurs from Entrepreneurs
Southeast VC: There are a lot of good new ideas out there. What differentiates companies and makes them great is the execution. Entrepreneurs shouldn’t debate whether or not this is the right time to start a business. That is almost like trying to time the stock market. The advice was to ignore market conditions. Also, [...]
This week’s Brain Brew Radio episode is online. This week: Brad in Alberta, Canada looks to the Brain Brew Crew for brutally honest advice on his new product ideas… Bill and his wife just opened a cooking school in Italy, Italian Country Cooking, and they are looking for inventive ways to market their new company…
HP Small Business Templates & Images
BizzBangBuzz: “Create dynamic business materials such as brochures, letterhead, presentations, job applications, calendars, and more with our easy to use, customizable templates and images from HP Small & Medium Business.”
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What No One Ever Tells You About Starting Your Own Business
One year ago today: What No One Ever Tells You About Starting Your Own Business: Real Life Start-Up Advice from 101 Successful Entrepreneurs.
Is an MBA a Requisite for Entrepreneurs?
Wilson Ng: Is an MBA necessary? If you are like me, a bizdriven person, one of whose goal is to make my dreams come true in the form of my business, then it is. If you want to excel in the field, be one of the top 5 percent of the business, you will. If [...]
Jeff Cornwall: The National Dialogue on Entrepreneurship links to a a new study by the Millikin Institute that ranks states on the “cost of doing business.” The lowest costs can be found in: South Dakota North Dakota Iowa Montana Idaho Mississippi South Carolina Oklahoma Arkansas West Virginia Alabama Tennessee
SBA Offers Special Loans to Katrina Survivors
Houston Chronicle: Small-business owners across the stricken Gulf Coast are expected to turn to the federal government for financial help in getting their companies running again. The Small Business Administration’s disaster loan program is often the only salvation for companies without insurance, or whose insurance didn’t cover all the damage. The SBA offers two kinds [...]
Giving Voice to Vcs and Entrepreneurs
EirePreneur: Gregory Galant, quite an entrepreneur himself, is conducting a series of audio interviews with Venture Capitalists and other entrepreneurs under the banner of Venture Voice. Having listened to to two of the podcasts last night I went ahead and downloaded the lot today. Even though the sound quality is dire on a few they [...]
This week’s Carnival of the Capitalists is up at Rethink(IP).
Carnival of Personal Finance #12
This week’s Carnival of Personal Finance is up at Savvy Saver.
A Duty to Sell Quality Products
Jared Cosulich: When I was in high school, though, I sold knives door to door for a company called Vector Marketing Corporation that sold Cutco Knives. Despite my dislike for sales in general, I was proud of my position and accelled in it. Why? Well I was proud of what I was selling. I didn’t [...]
Opportunities From The High Price Of Gas
Ankesh Kothari writing on SowPub: A few opportunities and ideas: Make a plan for solar energy. “How to build a solar roof top” plans are selling well. You could research other “alternative” energy sources and write about them too. Research and write a report “How to make your SUV’s more fuel efficient.” One such report [...]
Michael Rappa: Internet commerce will give rise to new kinds of business models. That much is certain. But the web is also likely to reinvent tried-and-true models. Auctions are a perfect example. One of the oldest forms of brokering, auctions have been widely used throughout the world to set prices for such items as agricultural [...]
Life (And Business) In The Slow Lane
Lifestylepreneur: Today’s New York Times includes an article entitled, ‘Reaching for Success but Not Too Much of It.’ It’s about the increasing number of entrepreneurs who are choosing the path of slow growth or even no growth in order to maintain work-life balance and create community-oriented businesses that provide a personal touch.
How Entrepreneurs Differ from Big Business Executives
One year ago today: How Entrepreneurs Differ from Big Business Executives
FranchisePundit: Entreprenuer Magazine wrote an informative introduction to the kiosk and cart business a few years ago. It a good place to start when deciding if a kiosk location is for you. A Maui Wowi kiosk is picture to the [right].
Continuous Bootstrapping as Strategy
Dave Bayless: Bootstrapping has long been associated with startups. Having few resources of their own, startups are forced to find ways to leverage the complementary resources of others in order to achieve their objectives. However, the pervasiveness of information technologies is forcing all of us – big and small – to adopt continuous bootstrapping as [...]
Red Cross Hurricane Katrina Relief
Victims of Hurricane Katrina are attempting to recover from the massive storm that is still making its way across the Mid-Atlantic states. American Red Cross volunteers have been deployed to the hardest-hit areas of Katrina’s destruction, supplying hundreds of thousands of victims left homeless with critical necessities. By making a financial gift to Hurricane 2005 [...]
Tom Evslin: A leopard chasing an impala can make a mistake, lose the quarry, learn from the mistake, and hunt more wisely on another day. If the impala makes a mistake, it becomes the leopard’ slunch. Predators fail often; prey fail only once. via EirePreneur.
→ wonderpizzausa.com Wonder Pizza of Italy will place America’s most popular food source in places never before available. The innovative machine holds 102 different pizzas in their own separate and sealed trays, and then cooks and serves 9″ whole pizza pies in just 2 minutes. 5 years and 6 million dollars of R&D went into [...]
