Dr. Jeffey Cornwall: "Certainly one can over analyze a business or a golf swing. But neither can completely take care of themselves. Even golfers with 'natural swings' have to focus on what they are doing....
Don Boudreaux writing on Cafe Hayek:Almost every one of the goods and services that are routine in modern, commercial society is the result of a long series of mostly small, individual, creative efforts to improve...
Ida May Fuller, the first recepient of a retirement check from the Social Security Administration, received a total of $22,888.92 in benefits from 1940 until her death in 1975. Not bad for someone who...
It's policies like these that drive many of us into business for ourselves.
via Jen at Circadian Shift.
Robbie Vorhaus writes that using a credit card to build your business may not be the best idea. Three years into building his business, Vorhaus Communications, Inc., he found himself $125,000 in debt, $65,000...
David St Lawrence: "If a company has only one customer or only one product line, almost anyone with business experience would say that they are severely at risk, no matter how well they are doing....
Brain Brew Blog: "Barry Moltz (of recent 30 Second Guru fame) has some amusing advice (it's funny because it's true) on common pitfalls to avoid when writing a business plan."
Business Week: How crazy is real estate getting in parts of the country? Ask Sierra and Corbin Stewart, who just bought a modest, 2,000-square-foot house in Pleasanton, Calif., for $730,000. Mortgage and tax payments will...
Walt Disney wasn't always successful. Stephen Schochet describes some of the ways Disney lost millions of dollars before making it big: Walt created a mildly successful cartoon character in 1926 called Oswald the Rabbit....
Kirsten Osolind of re:invention: "The National Federation of Independent Business, the nation's largest small business advocacy group, announced today that its monthly small business optimism index reached 103, a record in the survey's 18-year history....
Snark Hunting: "After years of insisting that Ivory soap's ability to float was the product of a production error, Proctor and Gamble is now conceding that it was in fact due to a calculated marketing...
Ignor Naming and Branding Agency: "We created the Igor Naming Guide in order to demystify the naming process. In it we show how and why great product and company names work, when focus groups and...
Startup Journal: The hard lessons come from not paying attention to basic items, such as having solid contracts with suppliers, doing credit checks on customers or performing due diligence on potential employees, say business owners....
Just in time for the Backup Business I discussed earlier, LaCie today announced a 1.6 terabyte external hard drive for only $1,199!
1.6 terabytes is 1,677,721.6 megabytes, so it's only $0.00071 per megabyte. Wow!
Matthew Linderman on Signal vs. Noise: "Reminds me of some advice Chris Matthews gives in his book Hardball that goes something like this: When you've got bad news, get it all out at once…when it's...
Dan Sherman wrote today about getting into the software backup business.
As more information is trusted to home computers, especially computers running Windows and Internet Explorer, it really is only a matter of time before they...
A company called MovieBankUSA is rolling out a high-tech DVD and VHS tape video rental vending machine. Houston's News 24 has the story and a video:"It has been in business over ten years now...
Venture Blog: I love fanatics. Fanatics make first class entrepreneurs. As long as I have been working with startups, I have seen the power of fanaticism in action. Entrepreneurs who go to sleep thinking about...
Business Pundit: "Taxes could kill my business. I doubt that will happen, but it is an outside possibility. We have yet to turn a profit, but have paid more in taxes than we have for...
Entrepreneur: "Market research, then, can prove invaluable in determining your idea's potential. You can gather information from industry associations, Web searches, periodicals, federal and state agencies, and so forth. A trip to the library or...
