Archive for November 4th, 2005

Interesting Posts from Around the Network This Week

MLM Business Opportunities Weblog: The History of Direct Selling Part I, II, III and IV. Herbalife Sponsors Beach Volleyball I Believe in Network Marketing Work at Home Business Opportunities: Beware Whiny MLM Companies The Tax Man Biteth… Telecommuters Respond Home Business Opp For The Mechanically Inclined Toilet Paper Oil Filters Business Opportunities en Español: ¿Por [...]

 

Greg Gianforte’s Talk on Bootstrapping Greg Gianforte’s Talk on Bootstrapping

Bootstrappers’ Blog: Greg, the founder/CEO of RightNow and author of the new book, Bootstrapping Your Business, recently gave a talk at a TiE Institute event in Santa Clara. You can download a pdf (2MB) of the talk and view it on the website. To EVERY bootstrapper (and entrepreneur thinking about starting a company): WATCH THIS [...]

 

The Year-End Shuffle

NFIB: With fewer than two months before the end of the year, there’s still plenty of time to minimize your exposure to Uncle Sam next year. If you haven’t already, consider the following ideas now to ease your tax burden in April. Expense It: Thanks to the work of NFIB, small-business owners are enjoying increased [...]

 

Questions as Business Ideas Questions as Business Ideas

Paul Graham: The fact is, most startups end up nothing like the initial idea. It would be closer to the truth to say the main value of your initial idea is that, in the process of discovering it’s broken, you’ll come up with your real idea. The initial idea is just a starting point– not [...]

 

Businesses With Similar Names

Sometimes just checking whether or not your business name is used by someone else, as this post from the Wiggin and Dana’s Franchise Law Blog describes: Subway has asked Steakways Famous Philly Cheese Steaks, a sandwich shop located two miles from the company’s headquarters in Milford, Connecticut, to cease and desist using the name “Steakways,” [...]