The Small Business Survival Council claims that proposed rules requiring stock options to be treated as an expense would hurt small business.
Commenting on proposed accounting standards in the United States and at the international level, the Council’s Chairman, Karen Kerrigan,…
Silicon Valley is starting to party again.
Signs of growth, investment, spending and success in Silicon Valley are starting to pick up again, according to an article in the December 8, 2003 edition of Forbes magazine.
Workers are job-hopping, PR firm billings are increasing, banking business…
At a recent conference in Australia, a Microsoft executive charged that Linux software does not address the needs of small business as well as Microsoft’s products, due to the inherent lack of integration.
While addressing a small and mid-market solutions team at a conference on November…
The Internet increasingly plays a key role in the real estate sales industry, and this trend is expected to grow.
According to a recent article by real estate professional John Mudd, more and more homebuyers are using the Internet in some portion of their buying process, either to locate property…
Check out the extremely detailed guide to help entrepreneurs set up a Board of Directors. It is available online at the Telecommunications Development Fund, a venture capital firm for companies in the telecommunications industry. (The guide applies to a corporation in any line of business, and…
A recent poll by the National Association for the Self-Employed shows that more women are starting their own businesses.
Startups by women grew by double digits annually from 2000-2003. This represents a significant increase in growth since the 1990s. The number of women-owned startups out…
According to the Reuters news agency, Microsoft is planning to invest $10 Billion (US) over the next five years to develop software for the small and medium-sized business market. That includes $2 Billion (US) invested in this market space this year.
Microsoft’s SMB strategy chief said that…
Small businesses selling on eBay now have a promising new tool to track visitor behavior on their auctions.
SmallBusinessComputing.com had the following report about this latest breakthrough for eBay merchants:
A company called Sellathon recently launched a product called ViewTracker, and they…
Tech spending is up 7.5% this year. And surprise — it’s not the huge corporations leading the way. Small and midsize companies are leading this upswing. That’s the word from a recent USA Today article.
The article quotes research firm Precursor, stating that small and midsize…
The following is Part #2 of the list of the hottest new U. S. business opportunities for 2004, as contained in Entrepreneur Magazine. Part #1 of the Entrepreneur list was published yesterday (see the post prior to this one):
Online Matchmaking — Americans are willing to pay for connections,…
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