Emergic, an Indian blog by entrepreneur Rajesh Jain, has a fascinating series on small and medium-sized enterprises and technology.
His main premise: small and medium enterprises (SMEs) lag 3-5 years behind larger enterprises when adopting technology. He lists the reasons:
“SMEs are not…
Medpundit writes that as a solo practitioner physician, the cost of providing health insurance coverage for her employees is more than she can afford.
She believes small businesses are disincented to provide insurance, at least in her area (in the Midwest USA). Employer-provided health insurance…
When it comes to nanotech startups, VCs are not exactly falling all over themselves to invest. Most of the funding action right now is in government grants.
That’s according to Howard Lovy, News Editor of the nanotech industry’s Small Times magazine (click here to subscribe —…
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The Workers Comp Insider is a “weblog about workers’ compensation, risk management, business insurance, workplace health & safety, occupational medicine, injured…
Just about everyone has weighed in on the recent antitrust ruling by the European Union Commission against Microsoft for its practice of bundling products.
That includes the Small Business Survival Council, a U.S.-based small business advocacy group. They have criticized the ruling on the basis…
Via Philippe Laferriere’s French Venture and Entrepreneur blog comes this interesting piece on the state of entrepreneurship in Europe. Citing an article by Julie Meyer, CEO of venture firm Ariadne Capital, in Silicon.com:
“Europe is under threat as never before. It is ……
The travel agency business must be brutal.
Traditionally the industry has been made up of many small agencies. But the past decade has been rough.
First the airlines started cutting the commissions paid to travel agents to book tickets. Eventually they eliminated commissions altogether. At…
The Wall Street Journal has a nice piece outlining a trend that we have discussed before here at Small Business Trends: the growth in paid Internet content.
Contrary to popular wisdom, all content is not free online. Paid content is a huge market, to the tune of $1.6 billion (USD) in the U.S. last…
Venerable Coca-Cola seems to be jumping on the experience-economy bandwagon. It has launched Coca-Cola Red Lounges in malls in Chicago and Los Angeles. Aimed at teens, the approximately 4,000 square feet venues offer exclusive music, movies, and games. Producers of the entertainment include the…
This week’s Carnival of the Capitalists is now posted at The Entrepreneurial Mind.
Check it out for links to a showcase of great articles on business topics.
For those of you who are new to Carnival of the Capitalists, it is a traveling event that appears each week at a new weblog. Visit…
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