Archive for November 14th, 2005
Ireland: How Do I Turn My Brand Into A Franchise?
Sunday Times: Watching a business grow rapidly into a recognised brand is every entrepreneur’s dream. Franchising is a popular route to turning that vision into reality. That’s what three former IT entrepreneurs did with the wine shop they launched in Limerick (Ireland) five years ago. Having sold their previous venture, a technology firm, to an [...]
BusinessTown: For any new business, you should predict what gross sales volume level you will have to achieve before you reach the break-even point and then, of course, build to make a profit. For early-stage businesses, you should be able to assess your early prediction and determine how accurate they were, and monitor whether you [...]
Business Opportunities Weblog Turns Four
Four years ago yesterday I made the first post to the Business Opportunities Weblog. Today, this weblog contains 4260 posts and the network it spawned now consists of six blogs, including: Ask, Brazil, Español, Franchise, MLM, and Work At Home. If you think the site’s name is long now, when I started the four years [...]
On Continuous Innovation And Disposable Business Ideas
Fortune Magazine’s Business Innovation Blog has posted a Q and A with me on small business innovation: Q: How can a company unlock its “innovation DNA”? Dane: Ideas have always been cheap, because it’s how you execute that matters. Now it’s finally possible to try what I call the disposable business idea: Have an employee [...]
This week’s Carnival of the Capitalists is at Jeff Cornwall’s The Entrepreneurial Mind.
