Archive for November 17th, 2009
Lessons Learned From A Million-Dollar Mistake
Entrepreneurs are forever learning from their own mistakes, so once in a while it’s nice to learn from someone else’s for a change. Tech entrepreneur Neil Patel shares the story of his million-dollar mistake made while pursuing a web-hosting start-up. Patel lists a number of things that went wrong with the businesss, poor money management [...]
Startups Continue To Attract Funding, Create Jobs
Innovative startups in the U.S. continue to attract capital from investors, and in turn are doing their part to counter the trend of the rising unemployment rate in the country, reports TechCrunch. According to the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) and StartUpHire.com, thousands of jobs are available at venture-backed startups today, despite the overall job-cutting [...]
For those in the professional world, it’s easy to fall prey to bad habits — procrastination, poor time management, and impatience are all examples of behavior that can affect the productivity of one’s work or business. Fortunately, says Web Worker Daily, training the brain to adopt good habits doesn’t take as long as most people [...]
Best Inventions of 2009: Wooden Bones
TIME‘s picks for the best new gadgets and breakthrough ideas of the year, we’ll feature some of the ones we find interesting. It’s odd to think of putting sticks of wood inside people as a revolutionary medical procedure, but that’s exactly what a group of Italian scientists is working on. They’re using wood — red [...]
Cyber Monday is, of course, what is touted to be the busiest day of the year for online sales. It comes the Monday after Black Friday (the Friday after Thanksgiving that kicks off the holiday shopping season at bricks and mortar stores), reports Inc.com. Here’s where, you, the online seller, have a distinct advantage over [...]
Is Imitation The Hidden Key To Creativity?
People like Catherina Fake, the Flickr co-founder, and Stefan Sagmeister keep their creative juices flowing. They point out: Constantly working hard blinds you to breakthrough ideas; one solution is taking copious time off. Maybe that solves the problem for individuals. But can society organize itself in such a way as to maximize the number of [...]
Mobile Nail Spa Business Is Heavenly For Mompreneur
Naperville Sun: Tinika Amison realizes that if she is going to help people, the first step must literally be her own. The 33-year-old single mom of three children who lives in Naperville launched a new mobile nail spa business earlier this year known as Angel Feet. It’s an at-home nail service that Amison said focuses [...]
