Archive for June 7th, 2006
Young Entrepreneur: Most entrepreneurs fail at least once, if not many times. The characteristic that defines a successful entrepreneur is how failure is handled. I am a believer in the fact that failure is the best teacher, if you deal with it correctly. As someone who has been through a failed business, here are my [...]
Jeff Cornwall: [LLCs] offer no real tax advantage for most entrepreneurs, and since they tend to be more expensive, one might wonder why. But, key in on two words from the last two sentences, attorney and expensive, and you get a clue as to one possible reason. Lawyers make more money from pushing LLCs. There [...]
Yahoo Takes a Step toward Competeing with Ebay
Red herring Yahoo acquired a 10 percent stake in Gmarket on Wednesday, paying $60 million to Oak Investment Partners, a venture firm that owns most of the popular South Korean e-commerce and auction site. Despite Yahoo and eBay’s recent alliance to defend against Google in the United States, Yahoo has been aggressively competing with eBay [...]
Yahoo Takes a Step toward Competeing with Ebay
Red herring Yahoo acquired a 10 percent stake in Gmarket on Wednesday, paying $60 million to Oak Investment Partners, a venture firm that owns most of the popular South Korean e-commerce and auction site. Despite Yahoo and eBay’s recent alliance to defend against Google in the United States, Yahoo has been aggressively competing with eBay [...]
Paypal to Create Community for Developers
InformationWeek PayPal this weekend plans to unveil a community site that targets developers who integrate the online payment service into third-party Web sites. PayPal plans to launch the new developer community at the EBay Developers Conference this weekend in Las Vegas, Nev., Tim Villanueva, general manager of the PayPal Platform, said Monday. PayPal is a [...]
Entrepreneurs Make Poor Patrons
Tim O’Leary: I am an unabashed entrepreneur. Since graduating from college – I have never worked for anyone else for any significant amount of time. In retrospect, this was probably a mistake, as I suspect the right mentor could have smoothed the road for me a bit, but it all turned out, and I have [...]
WWII Solider Finds Lost Coat with Ebay’s Help
United Press International A U.S. Navy sailor who got drunk in San Francisco and lost his peacoat in March 1941 has located it in Belgium through the Internet. Tony Gellepis, 85, recalls the night he was on liberty, and even the bar he was in when he took off the double-breasted dark blue coat with [...]
Ebay Starts Joint Venture with PChome
DigiTimes systems PChome Online, a leading web portal in Taiwan, on June 5 announced that it will set up a joint venture with eBay to establish a brand-new local on-line auction service to replace PChome’s existing on-line auction channel and eBay’s Taiwan auction web site by the end of this year. PChome chairman Hung-tze Jan [...]
Net2Phone Files Law Suit against Ebay
techblog Looks like a good thing can never last. Everyone’s favorite VoIP company Skype which is owned by Ebay has just been sued by Net2Phone alleging that Skype has infringed its patent for the placing of calls over the net. The law suit, filed in the US District court of Newark, alleges that Skype infringed [...]
Janelle Elms Tips for Ebay Live
Auctionbytes: Janelle Elms is an eBay University instructor, author of numerous books about eBay, and creator and teacher of the highly successful eBay 101 and 102 classes taught nationwide. A Silver PowerSeller on eBay, Janelle specializes in coaching individuals and companies how to build successful eBay businesses and maximize their profits. Janelle considers herself an [...]
Slow Leadership:
Home-Based Sole Proprietors Generate $102 Billion in Revenue
Inc.: Home-based sole proprietors generate $102 billion in combined annual revenue, and their ranks are expected keep growing, according to a new study by the Small Business Administration’s Office of Advocacy. While home-based sole proprietors bring in almost $15,700 less on average than their non-home-based counterparts — $22,569 in net income versus $38,243 — they [...]
Founders: Don’t Underpay Yourself
Adventures in Capitalism: I always advise company founders not to underpay themselves. Underpaying yourself isn’t a noble sacrifice, it’s a distortion. If your business can’t turn a profit paying market salaries, maybe it’s not such a good business. Of course, it’s hard to draw this line sometimes, especially when you’re a first-time founder. When I [...]
Startup Journal: For many parents, the whole notion of creating a home office centers on walling yourself off from family life, creating a space — whether an entire room or just a desk tucked into the kitchen or den — where your world is private and removed from all the commotion and demands of spouse [...]
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When the Biz You Want to Buy Is Hard to Find
Startup Journal: Many business buyers now search for acquisition opportunities online, but it does little good when seeking a rather unique business, such as a maple-syrup farm. The problem: The probability of finding such a business in the classifieds is slim to none. So you must persistently scout out the few sellers in the field [...]
Cristian Dorobantescu is covering all his bases: 5 Reasons to Take the Part Time Entrepreneurship Path 5 Reasons Not to Be a Part Time Entrepreneur
