Fifty-five percent of all adult American Internet users (34% of all adult Americans) have access to a high-speed, broadband connection either at home or on the job, according to a report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Those numbers translate into 68 million adult Americans…
According to a quarterly MoneyTree Survey for the first quarter of 2004, average time between venture capital rounds for late-stage companies increased to 15.7 months compared to 11.9 months for the same period in 2002. Expansion-stage companies extended their average funding interval to 15.5…
Chad Moutray, of the U.S. Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy, says [paraphrasing]: America has a very low cost of entry to start a business. That’s why the U.S. is an entrepreneurial country. Also, America’s universities need to focus on entrepreneurs… because…
Virginia Postrel takes a look at how the Internet increases the sales of niche products in her latest article in the New York Times:
‘ “When I first started doing work on how the Internet is affecting commerce, like a lot of people, I was really excited by this nearly perfect…
This week’s Carnival of the Capitalists is posted over at Venturepreneur, an entrepreneurial blog.
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 cyber-event that appears each week at…
The more I learn about modern-day farming, the more impressed I am with the business of farming. Like other businesses, farming is becoming more productive and efficient through technology.
Consider this picture: A small business owner attends a seminar put on by experts. At the seminar, the…
Editor’s note: This is the twelfth in our popular weekly series of PowerBlog Reviews of other weblogs…
Blog for Business is a blog by Barbara Payne. Her blog’s tagline is “Find your true voice…and grow your business.”
And that’s really what Blog for…
My partner, Dave, and I have just added “comments” and “trackback” features to Small Business Trends.
We feel that reader comments will make the site a richer resource for everyone. The same goes for trackback, which lets anyone see at a glance the articles that refer to…
When brand is everything, when a company makes nothing and outsources everything — what kind of business is that?
A successful business, according to an article in the UK publication, The Times.
It’s also a template for the modern business model of the 21st century. In Europe and…
The most recent issue of the Kiplinger Letter (subscription required) predicts we are in a tech recovery that will last for years. It will be marked by steady growth, instead of the booms and busts of the past decade.
The largest software providers — Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, SAP — will…
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