Archive for June 16th, 2006

Friday Speedlinking

It’s Friday and for time for some speedlinking so I can close some long neglected Firefox tabs: How To Help Your Kids Succeed In Business Gbuy Not Direct Competition To PayPal Can Ordinary People Make Money On The Internet? Home Business for Baby Boomers Foreman’s a lean, mean entrepreneurial machine Half of U.S. Small Businesses [...]

 

Prize Corn Prize Corn

Rick Roberge recounted Kimberley Wu, MIT’s 2006 Class President, speech to the graduating class: There was a farmer who grew corn. Every year his county held a contest to determine which farmer grew the best corn. Every year he won. Year after year this farmer grew the best corn in the county and he won [...]

 

MySpace Nukes SingleStat.us MySpace Nukes SingleStat.us

It seems that MySpace doesn’t want to be the new entrepreneurial playground. TechCrunch: Well, so much for the SingleStat.us experiment that allowed people to find out when someone on MySpace changes their relationship status. MySpace’s friendly lawyers sent a cease and desist letter to David Weekly, the engineer who built SingleStat.us, demanding he take the [...]

 

Factoring Advice for Startups

Via Anita Campbell comes this startup advice from a factoring company executive: … start-up firms need to ‘always, always, always watch their overhead. They have to run extremely lean businesses in the beginning. They should network as much as they can and farm out as much of the work as possible to keep the overhead [...]

 

Carnival of Entrepreneurship

This week’s Carnival of Entrepreneurship is up at Matt Inglot’s blog.