Archive for the 'Business Start Up' Category

The Marketplace For Entrepreneurs is coming to the Fargo Dome on January 17th, 2007. The Marketplace offers participants a variety of workshops and exhibits relating to starting a business, entrepreneurship, finding funding and inventions. You can download their 2006 Resource Directory here for free.

Many people would like to develop real estate portfolios that let them work from home. Some less adventurous but equally entrepreneurial would like own a duplex, live in one side, and rent out or sell the other side to leverage their finances. Some folks buy four-plexes and rent out three so their renters can pay off [...]

The desire to start a small business to provide for one’s family is universal. When traditional banks won’t “touch” a creditor, it’s sometimes possible to find alternative financing through “affinity” groups whose goals are different than commmercial banks. Here’s how the Hebrew Free Loan Association helped one immigrant: Viktor emigrated from Ukraine with his family [...]

This business can be RUN from your home in the sense of taking the calls, doing the books, etc. but to make money, you’ve got to spend time in the field. It’s Crime Scene Clean Up. There are approximately 170 companies specializing in this in the country. When there’s a crime and the “Crime Scene [...]

What most people don’t know when they day dream about working at home is that – at any given time – you can buy a home based business that’s for sale in your area. Most of the time the folks selling the business have overly optimistic expectations about what their business is worth. Hey, if [...]

If you want to know how to write a business plan, this link will put you in touch with some important resources that are – best of all – totally free. Once there, you’ll find a variety of free resources to help you get started and do a good job. The resources at the site [...]

If you’ve always wanted to start a business but also wanted to say you went to “MIT” but didn’t want to pay for four years of schooling, perhaps the MIT Entrepreneurship Development Program is for you. This program is designed for aspiring entrepreneurs, corporate venture officers, and persons who would like to develop or strengthen [...]

Since I went to the microloan seminar yesterday, I wanted to tell you about online loans from Zopa.com, a peer to peer lending site. After hearing that this government sponsored microloan program was costing 12-16% interest for people with even EXCELLENT credit, I figured there had to be a better way for most “second job entrepreneurs” [...]

Since we’re on microfinance already today, here’s a pet peeve I have about it. Jeff Cornwall at The Entrepreneurial Mind got me ranting and raving about this because of his post today on the Debate about Microfinance. I’ve discussed this previously in a post called “Microlending Goes For Profit In The Third World”  I don’t [...]

The Tennessee Small Business Development Centers are hosting microloan information seminars across the state. Microloans are described as $5,000 or less to start or expand a business. The “microentrepreneur’s” to receive the loan own the business and have fewer than 5 employees (including themselves) and is not ordinarily eligible for commerical financing through a bank. [...]