The following is a guest post by Jim Masterson, author of How to Start a Dog Walking Business: Dog Walking Jobs For Fun and→


The following post is made possible by support from UPS. A reader wrote: Do you have any game changing business ideas you’d care to→


A Frenchman is building a 13th century castle in the Arkansas Ozarks with local laborers and 13th century tools. The goal is tourism, of→


UT San Diego: Last December, Gov. Jerry Brown said a key reason to pursue very costly alternative energy was that America was running out→


Thanks to capitalism, all of these things now fit in your pocket.


If you get a hankering for caviar on the go, and you’re in Los Angeles, three new caviar vending machines conveniently located around the→


Whether you head a secret organization, run a large company, or you simply don’t trust throwing away old hardware with sensitive data, Data Killers→


International vacations can be a great way to come up with new business ideas. When you’re outside of your normal environment, and even more→


Happy Thanksgiving Administrivia

Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at Dane Carlson’s Business Opportunities Weblog. See you Friday!


A reader asked: Do you have any suggestions for entrepreneurial/startup podcasts I should listen to while traveling over the long Thanksgiving weekend? I do→


According to The Tampa Tribune, that hefty leather-bound, gold-edged wedding photo album is getting some new competition, the iPad. In addition to offering a→


Does this happen to you: does your pet’s empty food disk call out to you? Ever time you walk past it do you feel→


Long before the internet, The Boston Globe had a free, real-time, ad-supported product: headlines written on chalkboards inside the windows of their storefront on→


Terror attacks, civil unrest, dirty bombs, earthquakes, 2012. Cue the entrepreneurs. Come-ons for doomsday products, from survival classes to earthquake kits, abound on the→


Mark McGuinness over at the99percent.com shares his productivity secret…the Post-It note. Not the smallest size, but the 3″ x 3″ squares. The Post-It contains→


As the percentage of senior citizens in the world increase, businesses have been quietly getting themselves ready for the trend. For years supermarkets have→


Slate: One of my favorite parables is about a man who arrives in a village with what he claims is a magic stone. Put→


The auction site Govliquidation.com has been called “eBay for the Pentagon”. It lets civilians bid for surplus military assets — from tanks and generators→


ABC: On Hostess Brands’ last day of shipping its iconic snacks, entrepreneurial eBay sellers have taken the opportunity to tap into buyers’ Hostess panic,→


The following post is made possible by support from UPS. A reader wrote: What is supply chain management? Ok, that seems like a really→