Using non-profit employment-related organizations in your community can be a low-cost way to hire and train employees, and even provide benefits for them.
The Hitachi Foundation has issued “A Pocket Guide for Business Leaders.” This is a PDF report that outlines why and where to set up…
This week’s Carnival of the Capitalists is posted at the brand new Carnival of the Capitalists site.
One of the entries I highly recommend is by business owner Wilson Ng. He writes about the mistake so many entrepreneurs make by pricing offerings lower than competitors. He says,…
Information Week recently ran an interesting cover article about the hacker economy. Hacking is no longer a teenager hobby sport. It’s organized crime. Lots of money is at stake. According to the article, the market for stolen identities has reached $1 Billion (citing statistics from…
Editor’s Note: Not long ago I conducted an audio interview with small business expert Andy Birol (see his earlier contributions in our Small Business Experts Directory). With so many companies these days interested in selling to small business owners, I wanted to know what Andy saw as the…
Today, high-growth startups seeking outside funding sources such as venture capital and angel capital, are unlikely to get millions of dollars in funding right out of the gate.
For instance, if your company is 3 weeks old and you have zero customers and your product offering is still being…
My latest column at Inc Technology is up. Like my last Inc column, this latest one is also about the “search” field — specifically about how and where to educate yourself about search engine optimization (SEO).
I write about search from time to time because I have observed a…
A while back I wrote about Work.com. It’s a site with how-to articles on a wide range of topics — everything from “Hiring and Managing Union Employees” to “Doing Business in Chile.”
Work.com (blog) is geared toward business owners, self-employed individuals,…
Last week I had an interesting discussion with the Vice President of a software company that sells to the small business market. I asked who in a small business he typically sold his product to. I expected to hear him mention the company owner or an IT person, or other titles along those lines. …
Recently I started writing a column for Success Magazine, at a blog called SMB Success Strategies.
My most recent article posted there is called “Can You Describe Your Business Strategy in Two Words?” It’s based upon something I heard not long ago in a speech given by Gary Harpst,…
The Council on Competitiveness has issued a study on the state of entrepreneurship in America. One of the most fascinating parts of the report is that it identifies a trend toward something called the “micro-multinationals.”
Micro-multinationals are small companies with a presence and…
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