Archive for January 14th, 2007
Entrepreneur Thinks Inside The Box
ToledoBlade.com: Pat Dutched had been a bookkeeper more than 25 years when she got a bright idea. Everything important to a small business should be in one place, easily reachable, and organized alphabetically and by dates. She started with her own 25 clients, filling for each a banker’s box with receipts, invoices, payments, payroll, and [...]
Ecommerce-Guide.com: Jay Moore, a.k.a. the “GPS Dude” of GPSDude.com, has been at it for over four years now, with steady revenue and site visit increases every month. It’s about three and a half years longer than he ever thought he’d be advising on and selling satellite-based navigation devices to consumers. “I initially thought, if I [...]
Best Home-Based Business Ideas
BusinessWeek.com: Is this the year you’ll to start a small business from your home? If so, what opportunities provide your best bets for success? Menlo Park-based Homestead Technologies, which helps entrepreneurs design and maintain their Web sites, has come up with a list of the best home-based business opportunities for 2007. We looked at the [...]
IBM Dreams Up Online Inventor’s Forum
The Dallas Morning News: Along with the announcement that it has won the top patent spot for the 14th consecutive year, IBM is unveiling an online program called the Inventor’s Forum. The forum will be a place where entrepreneurs and small-business owners can share ideas and proposals on how to improve the patenting process. Marc [...]
Broadcast News Goes Human-Free
The Wall Street Journal: As network news programs continue to struggle, the creators of one news show are trying a new strategy — replacing the producer, the editor and even the news anchor with a computer. The online show, called “News at Seven,” uses an automated computer program to comb online news outlets for major [...]
