My interview of Tim Berry, CEO of Palo Alto Software, is now up over at Small Business Brief.
I was excited to interview Tim because his company developed Business Plan Pro, a well-known business plan software (I’ve used it in the past and found it to be quite helpful). Tim is down to earth…
The National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE) reports that home-based businesses are on the rise in the United States:
As technology increases convenience, more and more self-employed have opened or moved their business into their own homes, giving them greater flexibility and control over…
Here is something you are going to be seeing more of: pricing plans for paid content designed specifically for the small and midsize business (SMB) market.
That’s exactly what Lexis Nexis is doing. SmallBizTechnology.com reports that Lexis Nexis is selling content on a piece by piece basis,…
The National Dialogue on Entrepreneurship just came out with its list of best entrepreneurship books published during 2004. Here are a few of the books on the NDE’s reading list, along with a quote of what they say about each book:
The Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki.
“It is a fun read…
Editor’s note: Welcome to the forty-second in our regular weekly series of PowerBlog Reviews of business weblogs.
Opportunity Wales is a blog serving small and medium sized businesses, (SMEs), which make up 99.9% of the businesses in Wales. The site is a European-funded initiative designed…
Voice over IP (VoIP) — telephone calls over the Internet using a broadband connection — may finally start being adopted in meaningful numbers by small businesses in 2005.
Until recently the hype about VoIP was greater than the actual subscribers. You’d think there were tens of…
Last week I wrote about the weak dollar and whether it helps or hurts U.S. small businesses (answer: it all depends).
Here is another side to the story. A New York Times article by Mark Landler profiles the disastrous impact the dollar’s fall is having on European small businesses that export…
One of the Internet trends we spotted over a year ago was that of business blogging. To track that trend, we started a weekly feature back in February of 2004 called PowerBlog Reviews.
Each week we review notable examples of blogs that are being used for some sort of business purpose. We pick out…
Women-owned businesses are the fastest growing group of businesses in the United States. Minority-owned women businesses especially are growing. That’s according to an interesting article by Erin Chambers in BusinessWeek:
“Business ownership among women in general is growing at nearly…
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