The axiom used to be that if you owned a restaurant, you had to be there all the time or your profits would be “eaten up.”
That made the restaurant business a physically grueling one for most small business owners. A 60-, 70- or 80-hour work week was not uncommon.
Well, now,…
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Check out Sardonic Views for a weblog with views that are, well, sardonic.
Sardonic Views is published by Chas Rich. Like me, Chas, is a transplant to Cleveland, Ohio from Western…
Small Business Trends has been named “Blog of the Day” over at — you guessed it — the Blog of the Day weblog.
Thank you, Arthur!
Eight finalists competed in the University of Pennsylvania’s fourth annual Wharton Business Plan Competition last week. They presented their plans to a six-judge panel, hoping to win the $20,000 Grand Prize. Second place received $10,000 and third earned $5,000. Each of the three top teams…
“Bull Market is filled with people who will shake things up.”
That’s what Seth Godin says in his latest business eBook, Bull Market 2004.
And Dave and I are thrilled to report that Small Business Trends is one of the business blogs profiled in Bull Market 2004.
Seth, an…
The nature of employment is changing. Howard Rheingold comments on the new breed of free agent whose workplace is Starbuck’s, Kinko’s and the Fedex drop box:
“Now that Fedex owns Kinko’s, I really think they ought to consider buying Starbucks to constitute the ultimate…
The Chicago Boyz outline five trends that led to the U.S. economic boom of the past decade.
The growth in small businesses was one of them: “Many, many people risked their homes and life savings to start small businesses. Small businesses are the biggest source of jobs and economic…
The Internet is on the rise again. Both the number of websites and Internet advertising revenues have increased substantially in recent months.
For the first time, the Internet has topped more than 50 million websites according to the May 2004 Web Server Survey issued by Netcraft, an Internet…
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Inside Real Estate Journal is published by John Mudd.
John is a realtor located in beautiful Tampa Bay, Florida, USA. He also goes by the name “Mr. Real Estate.”
As…
Jim Hake, the entrepreneurial founder of Spirit of America, raised US$1.52 Million so far through the Internet, media, and blogs, among other sources. The money will be used to fund requests by Americans serving overseas on behalf of the countries where they are stationed. Most recently, Spirit…
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