Ideas

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 necessary effort each of us must put forward in order to acquire purchasing power. (Yes, yes, I know that […]

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 stores. People were “sick” of sitting and waiting for hours in doctors’ offices, emergency rooms, or urgent care centers for

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 posts. Thanks for the link, Ross.

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, they’re also not up for starting a major entrepreneurial venture requiring a million dollars in investment capital. Is it unreasonable,

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 into the private equity markets. Look for people who have worked in related businesses to yours. An entrepreneur-turned-investor who has

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 the idea of an incremental increase in expenses right out of the water. As a result, many micro-business owners delay

Dr. Jeffey R. Cornwall: “Matt Homann asked me to contribute to a feauture called “Five-by-Five” that he uses at his blog the [non]billable hour. He asks five experts to contribute five comments each about a particular topic. This week he asked for advice that we would offer lawyers on how to work effectively with entrepreneurs.”

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, on the contrary, we have a beautiful picture and you have our money to enjoy as you wish. We’re

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