Archive for March 10th, 2006
Homeland Security Startups: DOA
Robert X. Cringely: Take Boeing, for example. Last year, Barrons compared Boeing with its rivals Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, and said Boeing was the better bet for investors mainly because of the company’s homeland security work. Only last month, Boeing closed its homeland security division, and is busily laying-off most of the people who [...]
Finding Soulmates to Make a Living With
Dave Pollard: But here’s another idea: Instead of starting with what you think you might want to do, what about starting with who you’d like to do it with? My top advice to aspiring entrepreneurs is don’t try to start a business yourself. The biggest problem with navel-gazing around the chart above is that it [...]
Business Week: When entrepreneurs start their companies, they’re hitting the gas really hard. What they fail to realize is that as their business grows and the demands of that business shift, the same strategy doesn’t work. In fact, it can accelerate the propensity for burnout, which I define as: investing increasing amounts of energy and [...]
German-speaking readers, can you translate this for me? Vergangenes Jahr übernahm AOL das Blogger-Netzwerk Weblogs Inc. zu einem nicht näher spezifizierten Preis. Die Gerüchte sprechen von einer Summe zwischen 25 und 40 Millionen US-Dollar. Dane Carlson, Betreiber des “Business Opportunities Weblog” hatte nun nichts besseres zu tun, als auf Basis dieser Zahlen und der Verlinkungsstatistiken [...]
EMail Segmentation Generates Higher Income
Affiliate Classroom: Numerous studies show that targeting email messages maximizes ROI (return on investment). Both time and money are always in limited supply. Crafting content, both message body and – especially – subject lines – takes skill and effort. But the rewards, as these studies show, more than compensate in higher open and conversion rates. [...]
Ramit Sethi: Why do events fail? Why do we have such a visceral dislike for some companies? How do we surprise and impress people around us? I’ve been thinking about this for a while, and I came up with an idea. I call it The Failure of the Last Mile, and it happens when you [...]
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Franchises Riding the Housing Boom
CNN Money: One of the strongest and broadest of trends, of course, is home ownership and remodeling. The Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard reports that homeowners spent $149 billion in 2005 on renovations. “People are investing in their houses,” says Steve Hockett of FranChoice, a business referral consultant. “And higher house prices have [...]
