Archive for October 10th, 2005

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Don’t Abandon the Yellow Pages, Yet Don’t Abandon the Yellow Pages, Yet

Startup Journal: Nothing looks more lumpy and anachronistic than that fat yellow directory squatting on a shelf. It requires too much effort to wade through its many business categories. I’m annoyed when the new directories show up on my doorstep and I have to lug the old one to the trash. Yet I think it [...]

 

Partnership Agreements

Bplans Blog: If you are planning to go into business with a partner, then it is critical that you set up a partnership agreement. This is easy to do, but often overlooked during the business planning process. Without an agreed-upon strategy on how you will handle certain unforeseen events, how will you know how your [...]

 

The Myth of the Great Idea

Ramit Sethi has begun, what will undoubtedly be an excellent series of posts on what he call “personal entrepreneurship” and I refer to as “the entrepreneurial lifestyle.” You may not be actively starting, improving and flipping companies, but you can think and function like one: The myth of The Great Idea is a dangerous one. [...]

 

Buying a Business

BizInformer: There are a lot of things to consider when making an offer for a business – price and terms are two of the big ones. But you’d be wrong to assume price, cash, scheduled payments, and ability to finance are the chief considerations of any deal. People are the most important consideration in every [...]

 

How Much is Your Blog Worth? How Much is Your Blog Worth?

My blog is worth $125,327.88.How much is your blog worth? Om Malik: Tristan Louis crunches the numbers on the AOL-Weblogs deal. He figures out that at $25 million valuation, each inbound site (as per Technorati) is worth $564.54. Inspired by Tristan Louis’s research, I’ve created this little applet which computes and displays your blog’s worth [...]

 

Carnival of the Capitalists Turns Two

Rob May is hosting the two year anniversary edition of the Carnival of the Capitalists.