Latest Stories for November, 2004

 

Tax Shelters Cause Concern

If you were a landlord of commercial property and a buyer offered a price greater than the market value of your property, would you be elated? Who wouldn’t? But part of you also might be worried. A tax shelter trend is gaining ground around the United States. It’s called “1031…

Blogging by the Capitalists

Here at Small Business Trends we participate in a weekly business event that travels from blog to blog, called Carnival of the Capitalists. Carnival of the Capitalists showcases business articles from a variety of excellent blogs. It’s a great way for you, the reader, to discover new blogs…

PowerBlog Review: ReachCustomersOnline.com

Editor’s note: Welcome to the thirty-eighth in our regular weekly series of PowerBlog Reviews of business weblogs. This week’s PowerBlog Review is about the blog ReachCustomersOnline.com. The title describes the site as “an online magazine that offers free how-to internet…

Entrepreneurship, Rural America, and Elections

When you hear the word “entrepreneur” in the U.S., do you immediately think of someone working in a cramped office suite in Silicon Valley or Boston or Seattle? If you do, you may be overlooking the vast majority of entrepreneurial ventures in the United States. Entrepreneurship is more…

Is the U.S. Losing its Innovation Leadership?

Fast Company magazine’s November 2004 feature article is about the “top 101 ideas, people and trends for 2005.” In typical Fast Company fashion, at least half of the items are what I would consider short-lived fads that will come and go — very fast. But mixed in here and…

African Entrepreneurs Ascending

Steve Rucinski of Small Business CEO emailed me a link to an article suggesting that African eCommerce may be on the verge of bigger and better things. A joint marketing agreement between Quadrem and TradeWorld holds promise of growing the revenues of South Africa’s 75,000 small and midsize…

Small Business Owners Would Do it All Over Again

Small business owners in the U.S. are pretty happy with their lot. The overwhelming majority of small business owners (86%) say they would do it all over again if given the choice to own a business. That is according to a recent Gallup/Wells Fargo survey of U.S. small business owners, as noted by…

Making a Big Fuss About Small Business

Via the Law and Entrepreneurship News, I found a link to this column entitled “What’s the Big Fuss About Small Business?“. I note the column here not because I agree with it — I do not. Emphatically not. But because it reveals such a non-entrepreneurial thinking process. And…

Blogger a Victim of Its Own Success?

An open letter to all Small Business Trends users: In case you haven’t noticed, Blogger (the software used for this site) is incredibly sloooow today, as it was last week. If you are on the site right now, I want to thank you for hanging in there. I know it took you a while to get here. Biz…

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