Latest Stories for April, 2004
Broadband Use Rises to New Highs
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…
Entrepreneurs Make Money Last Longer
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…
More on the Entrepreneurial Economy
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…
Internet Increases Demand for Niche Stuff
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…
Visit Carnival of the Capitalists
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…
Not Your Father’s Farmer
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…
PowerBlog Review: Blog For Business
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…
Small Business Trends “Comments”
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…
The Hollow Corporation
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…
Tech Recovery and SMBs
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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