In my attempt to help you find that great second (or third) career, I’m continuing to look at businesses that baby boomers can start. Today it’s businesses in the beer-wine-alcohol industry, specifically microbreweries.
By the way, American Craft Beer Week was just a couple of weeks ago. Craft Brewers are “small, independent” breweries. A […]
If you have been following the news about National Small Business Week (which I guess is technically over), you might be interested in what the other b5media people have been saying about the phenomenon of Small Business from Accounting$olver:
Small is Beautiful (businesses, that is)
a Success Formula for your small business
The importance of Working Capital and
How […]
On April 28th Eureka Ranch Technology Ltd. will launch a registry site where researchers and inventors can post their ideas. The site is planeteureka.com. The purpose of the site is to offer innovations to people and companies who can develop posted ideas into marketable products.
The reasoning is that small businesses don’t have much money for research and […]
Get your friends together and sponsor a “Baby Boomer Job Fair” - use the one in Golden, Colorado as inspiration. This is the second year for the “BOOM-A-FAIR” - it is being held April 22 at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds. I wonder what kinds of jobs are available - I hope “Wal-Mart Greeter” isn’t one […]
Recently a web site, roommates.com got slapped down by the courts for discriminatory practices, see http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1207219563829for a discussion of the decision. People are all in a snit about the liability of the hosting website. People need to get their heads on straight. You cannot do something on the Internet that is illegal in the real world and expect that […]
Last week a big name finance guy, whom I never heard of, said that the financial markets are like a thirsty man with ten bottles of water, but one is poisoned and he doesn’t know which one. Good analogy. Now, it is clear how to make some money off the current financial crisis. Find the […]
Many baby boomers dream of working from home. Anne Wayman, over at The Golden Pencil, suggests a freelance writing career might be your way to get out of your 9-5 job and into a home-based job. But it’s not easy.
In this recent post, Anne gives some advice to an aspiring freelancer. […]
When the E-Bay reseller idea became popular last year, several people in my town jumped on the idea, but they quickly learned it wasn’t such a great idea. Sean Kelly at Franchise Pick discusses why these reseller stores may not be the franchise opportunity they were billed as.
Both of the people who signed up for […]
Jim Gordon over at the Boss Hatch blog has a great post on how to form an LLC. I have formed two of them, and they are super easy to form, without an attorney. Which is one reason attorneys often won’t tell you to form an LLC. They want you to form […]
Jennifer Hoffman is burning up the blogging world in her new post at My Organized Biz. She’s asked us b5media bloggers to comment on simplicity. Here’s my contribution:
I am a firm believer in the “KISS” principle - that’s “Keep it Short and Simple.”
Henry Thoreau said, “Our lives are frittered away by detail; simplify, simplify.” And […]
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