Latest Stories for February, 2007

 

A Startup Lesson – Bloglines versus Google

Over the weekend FeedBurner, the wildly popular RSS feed statistics tracking package, started showing Google Personal home page and Google Reader stats among the FeedBurner counts. (If you have no idea what kind of feeds I’m talking about, stop and read Feed 101 before going any…

Profile of the Entrepreneurial Generation

Professor Cornwall, Director of the Belmont University Center for Entrepreneurship , profiles today’s young entrepreneurs — those 30 years old and younger. Quoting remarks from a speech he made at the Forbes Enterprise Awards: One group with high rates of entrepreneurial activity is my…

Ten Ways You Should be Using the Web

If you think having a website is your entire Web presence, one industry executive says you are missing the boat. Justin Kitch, CEO of Homestead Technologies, gave one of the keynote addresses at the Small Business Summit I attended in New York this week. In it he emphasized that you need more…

Join Us at Small Business Summit – Join Us for Dinner

I will be in New York later today and tomorrow (February 12 and 13, 2007) for the Small Business Summit 2007. Tonight some of us are meeting up for dinner — all are welcome. It’s Dutch treat. If you’d like to join in (around 7:00 PM) give me a call at 330-242-1893. I hope to see…

More on the Growing Pet Industry

Hey, we told you that the pet industry is big business in the U.S., and in some other countries too. I was planning to write about the Puppy Bowl, to show yet one more example of the new and unique pet businesses being invented, but found that Samantha Hartley of the Enlightened Marketing blog beat…

The Call of the Entrepreneur Movie

The Acton Institute will be releasing a one-hour documentary film this spring, called “The Call of the Entrepreneur.” It’s about the beauty, mystery and power of entrepreneurship. I have not seen the movie, but I did find this 4-minute trailer for the film on the Acton Institute…

Blog Roundups and Lawyers Adopting Technology

This week’s edition of Carnival of the Capitalists is now up at the Mighty Bargain Hunter. The Online Guide to Mediation hosts the latest edition of the The Blawg Review, a roundup of legal related writings. Don’t miss Carolyn Elefant’s post about clients wanting to play a…

How Three Businesses Attracted New Customers

Three more businesses are now featured in the Spotlight section of the JumpUp.com community website. I want to point them out to you, because each overcame a business challenge similar to one you may be facing: how do you attract new customers? Read their stories: Integra Global Solutions, an…

Shopping Trends for 2007

Editor’s Note: Our newest guest columnist, Nellie Lide, came to my attention last year with a blog article she had written about shopping trends. I was so impressed with her treatment of the subject, that I invited her to write a guest column on shopping trends you can expect to see more…

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