Archive for the 'Business Start Up' Category

Have you been following the news about Google Wave? Frankly I’ve only heard about it… watching their hour long presentation was just not in my schedule!
So I’m not up on it. But I’ve found an interesting article that does peak my interest. It should peak yours too if you have programming capabilities and would want [...]

Many older workers are worried about retirement studies are showing.
That shows that someone at least still has a brain left in this economy.
Pension plans, 401 k plans, IRA’s are mostly built on the stock market and real estate markets that have been boosted artificially by inflation and money being pumped into the system by [...]

Maverick Money Making Club
To make money online many people jump right in before they are properly prepared. You know that to be a rocket scientist, a doctor, a brick layer, a construction worker, an office worker, a teacher there are prerequisites, things you must learn, before you can be successful, you don’t just jump right [...]

In all the talk about the REASON to start a home based business or online business, such as funding your retirement account or paying down debt or just living better and obtaining tax deductions, there’s not much talk about HOW to do all that.
This excellent article from SavingsAdvice.com is different in that it’s concrete:How Dumping [...]

During a downturn in the economy like this, people are thinking about their options. Many are being encouraged to train for a vocational career as opposed to starting a business per se. Is that wise? Well, that depends on what you were doing when you were laid off. If you had a high degree of [...]

The people who sell the Blackberry are finally setting up their own applications store – it’s about time!
When I wrote about The New Mailbox Money I talked about how iphone applications and Kindle could put money in your pockets.
Now Blackberry will be selling applications and there will even be a Kindle like (if not a [...]

There’s a sudden interest in gardening these days… and as a result people are wondering if they can turn their gardening aspirations into a gardening business.
Perhaps you can relate to this. Probably one of the most enjoyable thing for gardeners is watching new plants grow. I love it when one of my plants I grew [...]

The cost of producing audiobooks and ebooks and delivering them is falling through the floor.  One major pubisher is using that fact to boost the sale of their paper and ink books. By using the falling price of technology in this way they can keep selling their bread and butter – traditional books which people [...]

I told you that from time to time I hang around with economic development people.
Today the discussion on venture capital came up.
Everyone wants to know about this from time to time, but how do you look for venture capital?
At the meeting, this database was mentioned. But nobody, including me, can vouch for it’s accuracy or [...]

Mark Cuban has launched his own stimulus plan based on venture capital and business start up … not spend and tax megalomania.
The owner of the Dallas Mavericks is putting up his own money to fund business ideas he thinks are noteworthy if they meet these rules:
I will invest money in businesses presented here on this [...]