I was getting my haircut on Friday and the subject of successful people came up. My guy cuts the hair for a number of financially successfully people and spouses around the area. We both agreed that the common denominator with all these financially successful people was the amount of time they put into their work. […]
Maybe you have heard of the $100 laptop for developing countries. It was the brainchild of Prof. Nicholas Negroponte of MIT. His earth-satering idea is to provide laptops to kids in developing countries for $100 each. He started all this in’05. He started at the UN and got tremendous response. He was set to sell millions […]
Here is the second part of our list of creative ways to finance your small business idea:
6. Cash in an IRA - Be careful now. You’re messing with your retirement funds. See if the bank will take the IRA as collateral without cashing it in.
7. Assign a CD - same as above.
8. Vendor financing […]
Today a court will probably approve Homeland Security’s plan to employ small business owners as immigration police. The letters they are sending out to all businesses about social security number “no match.” Big companies have HR departments to sort these situations out. Small businesses generally have over worked owners.
The simplest thing to do will be […]
My start-up web site needs high quality videos to sell as streaming video or DVDs. I tried to shoot my own with very limited success. Because this is a risky start-up I don’t want to put any more resources into it than a possibility can. What other resources can I tap? The local state university […]
Ever since my second start-up I’ve used a rough gauge of the percentage of trucks were on the road as a way to determine how the general economy was doing. Yesterday I took my mother-in-law back to her home in Chicago. I’m here to tell you that the economy is doing just fine. The per […]
The month is named for Caesar Augustus who was first emperor of Rome, a consummate politician, a courageous and great general, an epileptic, a tyrant and the author of my second year Latin text. Not a go-along-to-get-along type guy. Still down through the ages we have used the definition of word “august” to mean imperial, regal, majestic and important. […]
In The Devil Wears Prada Meryl Streep plays Miranda Priestly, a character with real commitment. She is committed to her industry, her company and the highest level of excellence. Most managers I’ve talked to about that character give me some song and dance about how mean she is. She is not a […]
I’m off to Bloomington, Indiana for the weekend, but there were a few loose ends I wanted to clear up before leaving.
Web sites - When dealing with an Application Service Provider (ASP) you should expect that all their operational issues are being handled by another 3rd party provider who specializes in those areas. Operational areas […]
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I’ll get to it on the weekend. I say it. You’ve said it. Our lives are too full of choices and distractions. If you have kids of a certain age just driving them around to cover their choices and distractions can be a full life. But, you have to do this.
You are […]
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