Archive for February 21st, 2006
The Myth of the Entrepreneur and the Garage
California Management Review: There exists a common belief that entrepreneurs commonly start businesses in garages (or basements or dorm rooms or kitchens). The garage entrepreneur is a highly popular contemporary legend, but not quite accurate. An emergent notion in academic research is that entrepreneurs are often organizational products. They typically acquire confidence, business knowledge, and [...]
Brokeback Mountain Shirts Get Over $100K on eBay
Jack’s shirts from the hit movie Brokeback Mountain sold for $101.100.51 in an eBay auction that ended on February 20th. The auction stated that 100% of the final price will go to Variety Children’s Charity of Southern California. From the eBay Auction: These are the men’s shirts, originally selected by BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN costume designer Marit [...]
Double Your eBay Sales in 30 Days
Daily India: First, and as important to your success as anything you learn here, is clearly understanding how eBay users find things to spend their money on. No matter what type of buyer they are, no matter where they come from, they all use the same tool to find auction ads; “They use the search [...]
KCCI: A western Iowa couple found a way to live the small town life and still make big city bucks. Steven and Crystal Holt are making movie magic in Denison. A few years ago, Steven Holt quit his job to sell movies on the online auction site eBay — and business took off. Last year, [...]
No Spreading Ashes Across eBay
vnunet.com: Online auction firm eBay has pulled the sale of a woman’s ashes which were being offered at 1p a packet by her son. Glen Beaton, from Inverness in Scotland, wanted to use the auction site to fulfil his mother’s wish to travel around the world. He put her ashes into small bags and started [...]
Market Watch: Internet auctioneer EBay Inc. on Tuesday named EDS Corp. executive Bob Swan as chief financial officer, with current CFO Rajiv Dutta moving over to run the company’s Skype Internet-phone service. Swan, who was also CFO at Electronic Data Systems, will be eBay’s pointman on all matters financial, including mergers and acquisitions, the company [...]
Small Business Tax Break Could Be Hard To Take
USA Today: Bush recently proposed doubling, to $200,000, the amount small firms can write off annually for spending on vehicles, computers and other big-ticket items. It’s meant to entice the USA’s small businesses to spend more, while plowing the tax savings back into their companies. But it’s unclear how much additional spending it would inspire. [...]
A New Spin On a Cleaning Niche
Startup Journal: When families look to have their homes cleaned in the Boston suburbs, many turn to Brazilian immigrants, part of an exploding population of recent emigres who have been arriving here since the 1980s. But the maid service is different than most. It isn’t an ad-hoc group of workers scouring for weekly gigs; nor [...]
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