Brad Feld: What follows are some fundamental financial tenets that all early-stage entrepreneurs should be aware of, understand, and heed.Cash is king: No matter what, don't run out of money. Nothing else in this article...
On the MIT Entrepreneurship Center website, there is a great collection of entrepreneurial advice and tips from friends and alumni of the school.
My favorite quip comes from Bart Stuck, now the Managing Director...
Nolo: If you want to go into the business of putting naked body parts on display, chances are that you'll have to deal with local zoning restrictions that govern where adult-oriented businesses may be located....
Jeff Cornwall: "The Kauffman Foundation has released its latest report on entrepreneurship that is part of its Global Entrepreneurship Monitoring project. United States Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2003 Report, by Maria Minitti and William D. Bygrave,...
Joseph Kowal: "If you're going into business on the Internet, you MUST automate everything possible - right from the start. Why? I'll let a little story about my personal experience answer that question... When I...
CNN: You've opted to stay home to care for the kids. But you wouldn't mind making some extra income during those hours between sending your charges off to school and picking them up again.
You're...
Fortune: "Chemical Bank's ad campaign announced the start of the revolution in 1969: 'On Sept. 2, our bank will open at 9:00 and never close again!' On that day at the Rockville Centre branch at...
Welcome to this week's edition of the Carnival of the Capitalists. We've got a big show for you today:
In An Alternative View Of Organizations in the Future, Gautam Ghosh speculates that in the future,...
Jeremy Wright: "Sometimes it's easy to forget what's important. Some people will dismiss this essay by my friend Mattias Johansson as trivial, naive and simplistic and it's likely those people who need to read it...
Duct Tape Marketing: "One of the greatest opportunities open to the small business owner is duplication. Look, you're an expert a something right, I mean, people pay you for your knowledge, skill, advice, or ability...
Startup Journal: From an initial investment of $120,000, Ms. Robinson and her partners -- though she's now the sole owner -- built an agency that today places about 300 nannies a year and charges a...
Cafe Hayek: "People talk of 'jobs' as if these are ends in themselves -- as if jobs are goods, rather than bads. But jobs are bads -- or, more precisely, they're costs. A job is...
The Entrepreneurial Mind: "Here is today's latest marvel of the marketplace: health care kiosks. It is a fast, efficient mini-clinic that specializes in common health problems. These kiosks operate out of Target and other retail...
I just found a great marketing blog called Marketing Genius from Maple Creative. Its not exactly new, there are posts back to March, but I'm looking forward to exploring the archives and reading new...
BusinessLogs: "If a weblog pops up on the first page of Google results, there's a reason for it."
I've been saying this for ages, and someday soon, I'm going to share some of my Google secrets.
Womens Wall Street: "Many women, particularly mothers of young children, dream of earning a part-time salary and enjoying the flexibility of a freelance lifestyle. But wary of those Spam-mailing con artists peddling bogus work-at-home schemes,...
Martin Tobias writing at AlwaysOn: "Good equity investors should be business partners, not just financial investors. Purely financial investors should be the public markets. Unfortunately, as the mood brightens, many of them will come back...
David St Lawrence: Using conventional thinking, the growing company would have to add office space, extra phone lines, computers, and all of the other expenses that are required to support additional staff. This really blows...
Dr. Jeffey R. Cornwall: "Matt Homann asked me to contribute to a feauture called "Five-by-Five" that he uses at his blog the billable hour. He asks five experts to contribute five comments each about...
Russell Roberts' account of this exchange with a sidewalk artist makes me feel all warm and tingly inside: I gave him a $20. He handed me the change and said, "We're even."
I smiled and said,...