Is this next generation going to steer clear of being their own boss or are we raising youth who will embrace the entrepreneur spirit? This morning on The View, Sean P. Diddy Combs (he clarified that...
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On this morning's edition of the Today Show there was a segment on starting a business: what you need to know for a successful launch. They started by saying that women entrepreneurs are far most...
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Imagine walking away from your life to pursue...life. Four guys, recent college graduates, have done just that. Some might say they've put their life on hold for a lark, but they aren't...
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I had the opportunity to meet with Cliff Reynolds, Director and Don Knechtges, Senior Advisor of Great Lakes Innovation and Development Enterprise today. GLIDE. Working in conjunction with the Lorain...
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Looking for a way to turn people off? Tell them all the things they CAN'T DO. Have you ever been to a locally owned shop and all you see are signs that SCREAM at you? NO CHECKS NO CREDIT CARDS......
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Last week I wrote about a search engine called Stumble Upon and I signed up. Every day or so, I click on the little button and it surprises me with a site, White Paper or blog within my list of......
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Are you an entrepreneur? Read on. Learn this reality. - Good ideas are a dime a dozen - Think your idea has to be unique? You are deluded. - In love with your idea? Get over it. Ideas are...
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A study of over 800 business owners, carried out by research company YouGov, aimed to examine and understand why only three per cent of UK businesses ever grow to more than 100 employees. The project...
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Analysts from Forrester Research show that the video game industry has surpassed the growth of the film industry. According to market research firm NPD Group, 2006 sales of video game hardware,...
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The face of small business will dramatically change over the next decade, according to the Intuit Future of Small Business Report, a unique study released today that looks forward 10 years and...
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Kudos to Wayne Hulbert at Blog Business World. Every small business began with a dream, a business plan of varying degrees of complexity, and a lot of hard work. Customers and clients were sought and...
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Did you know there is a business model built around the buying and selling of internet domain names? Here is an excerpt from a leader in the space Afternic: The domain industry is understandably...
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Here are some interesting tidbits from Mastercard's recent small business survey. Half of small business owners are confident they will meet their financial goals this year - a 5% increase over...
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The worlds largest wind farm, or so the developers hope of this gigantic wind farm proposal in the UK call The Array. London Array, a proposed offshore wind farm, applied for its various planning...
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This great post by Tim Sanders author of Love is the Killer App really hit home with me. An Ing person is a non-executor and they are constantly thinking-studying-looking into-trying to do things. He...
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If someone asks a small business owner, are you struggling to market your small business effectively? Do you lack the time and resources to run an effective ad campaign? Are you losing your share of...
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If you are a retailer then you no what Black Friday is, the Friday after Thanksgiving. Supposedly the name comes from the fact that for several retailers the sales on that day put them in the black...
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One of the benefits (or sometimes downside) of being a public blogger is that you get dozens of PR reps wanting to have you give their client publicity on your blog. I received the notice below today....
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I recently read that one in six business owners have listened to a Podcast. Every week over at Small Business Trends Radio I write a review of a business related Podcast. This week I review the...
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Ok, I admit I have 484 messages in my inbox and thousands more scattered amongst my Outlook folders. The author or the article I am going to link to says that 30-60 minutes a day can be saved by...
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The Google (The Borg for you Star Trek fans) acquired another great company today, JotSpot. Google Inc., expanding its efforts at providing software that helps users create and post their own...
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Thanks to the Wall Street Journal Free Stuff. Social-networking Web sites like MySpace.com and Facebook.com have helped link millions of friends. But now they have a new enemy: 20-year-old Jenny...
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