Archive for October 26th, 2006
Entrepreneur.com: If you’re like most new or wannabe business owners, you want to hit a home run right from the start. And who can blame you? You’re probably investing the majority of your life savings in your business, so you need it to succeed, right? Here are eight guidelines you’ll want to follow to help [...]
BusinessWeek Smallbiz: Walt Disney was at a local carnival with his grandkids when he was inspired to create Disneyland. A cold winter day of skating got Chester Greenwood thinking up earmuffs. And Bill Bowerman saw in his morning waffles the design for the Nike Waffle running shoe. Eureka moments — those sudden bursts of inspiration [...]
From Goofy Podcast to Real Business
Ad Age Digital: A year ago, Los Angeles improv artists Douglas Saline and Kent Nichols were out of work and nearly destitute. Today, as creators and operators of the “Ask a Ninja” website and podcast, they run an expanding media property selling ad space at $50 CPM to companies such as Sony and Warner Bros. [...]
Jeff Cornwall: A common practice in writing business plans is to offer three scenarios: most-likely, best case and worst case. When I see worst cases presented in most business plans, they are almost always not the worst case scenario. They are most often a less optimistic variation of what the entrepreneur thinks will actually happen. [...]
