Archive for January 19th, 2006
How To Start Your Own Tutoring Business
Work at Home Business Opportunities: How To Start Your Own Tutoring Business
StartupNation: Our lead article indicates that over 80% of the businesses that will open for business next month will be launched by people who are stuck in corporate jobs this month.
Chuck Green: A smart business card is a “tool” — a device that aids in accomplishing a task. It gives your contact a reason to keep your card within reach — it adds function to form. Yet, in an effort to save a few pennies in printing, millions of business cards are printed with a [...]
Reveries: It used to be that a tree wasn’t fit for logging unless it was at least 50 inches in diameter, but now trees as small as seven-inches around are in demand, reports Jim Robbins in The New York Times (1/10/06). Small-diameter trees were just collected and burned — considered too small to command decent [...]
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→ dentdoctor.com Dent Doctor was rated as one of the top 15 automotive franchises in Successful Franchising magazine and is one of the top 500 U.S. franchises in the January 2004 issue of Entrepreneur magazine. Chosen by Mercedes-Benz, Lexus and national fleet leasing companies for producing superior quality results, Dent Doctor offers you an opportunity [...]
Google Answers: What are the most acceptable tax write offs when self-employed?
Building To Flip Is Building To Flop
Jason Fried: If you’re about to build anything, don’t build it to flip or you’re almost guaranteed to flop. Sure, you could win the Yahoo lottery, but the odds aren’t in your favor. If 9 out of every 10 new companies fail, I can’t imagine the minute percentage of successful acquisitions. 1 in 100? 1 [...]
Red Herring: More investment in green startups Voice becomes free within data networks Electronic technology changes from a growth engine to a commodity China to become low-cost world innovator Microsoft, SAP, and Oracle will lose dominance in software U.S. on path to following the third-world Biological sciences become popular in colleges Most compelling technologies will [...]
TEC Online: Few things have more impact on the long-term success of your business than your ability to cut successful deals with customers, vendors, bankers and other key constituencies. Yet, according to TEC speakers and negotiations experts Ron Fleisher, Doug Gilliss and Jack Kaine, most CEOs leave too much money on the table during their [...]
Chuck Huckaby: Want a cheap but unique product to resell? Go to places like Rent A Coder and see what’s been developed recently. If it’s at a fair price and a utility you’d like to sell, you can often purchase the rights for the same or less price.
