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, […]
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Dan Sherman, always the idea man, shared his two newest business ideas yesterday: raising money for Republicans for a commission and starting a short run color printing service. The post about the printing service contains this extra gem: Xerox will give you a free color laser printer if you agree to purchase the toner from
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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 many people experience their first major computer crash and lose everything. Dan’s idea is to start a service where
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Newmark’s Door: “Your tax dollars at work: the government tries to explain Social Security to little kids.” I think we could do better than that — and for free! Here’s my version: Social security is like food that the big scary green monster steals from the young people to give to the old people. The
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Dave Ramsey: I wouldn’t call it a rip off. It usually costs anywhere from $18 – $25 a month, and most of the time you get a free will out of it, which usually costs around $300 bucks, so you’ll get your money back in the first year, which is nice. This also encourages people
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You thought they just sold clothing, but J.C. Penney has their own research and development facilities! From the New York Post: ” J.C. Penney is at the forefront of an explosion in so-called performance clothing, a category dominated by wrinkle-free and stain-resistant fabrics that slash dry-cleaning bills and appeal to time-strapped consumers.” It gets better:
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Robert Murphy: “I personally like to use a reductio ad absurdum when it comes to international trade, and the widespread fear of ‘cheap imports.’ When arguing with someone along these lines, I first ask, ‘So are you saying that it would it be better for the US if foreigners shipped us expensive imports?’ This usually
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Someone at CareerJournal is desperately afraid of setting out on their own: There used to be a sharp division between self-employment and working for someone else. Today, with the erosion of the traditional employment contract, those differences are increasingly blurred. After all, everyone today has to take responsibility for their own employability and financial continuity.
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