Canines, Trains and Really Gre
One of my favorite things about the information economy is the extent to which a highly commoditized, social web lowers the barrier to entry for prospective entrepreneurs. While some of ...
Through the Entrepreneurial Lo
In a recent blog post, author Scott Ginsberg recently asked Have You Executed These Ten Essentials of Entrepreneurial Excellence? He then listed off the ten things he highlights as essential ...
What Makes Innovation?
CNN recently reported that researchers from Harvard Business School, Insead and Brigham Young University have just completed a six-year study of more than 3,000 executives and 500 innovative entrepreneurs, and ...
These are a few of my favorite
One of my favorite parts of the end of any year are the 'year in review' and/or 'next year's prediction' lists. And when it's a year that ends in a ...
Lies, Damn Lies and SEO
One of the reasons that I have always loved being in the web business is because things constantly change. When I first got online in 1993, we used bulletin board ...
Mixing Business and Family
For some families, business is just part of the package. As someone who grew up in a family-owned business, one of the reasons I ducked-and-weaved every time my husband used ...
Entrepreneurs Get it Done
Entrepreneur-turned-VC, Mark Suster, recently posted an article on his blog, Both Sides of the Table, highlighting what he considers to be the essential qualities of entrepreneurship. At the heart of ...
Updated Marketing Plans
In the world of tech startups there is a common phenomenon: developer entrepreneurs who can write great apps, build slick sites and develop cool technology... but who forget that the ...
Partnership Planning
Earlier this year, my husband and I took a small business workshop offered by a local certified public accountant. He covered the ins-and-outs of both starting and growing a small ...
Necessity is the Mother of Inv
CNNMoney.com published an article on this week's government report that states, over the past six months, the "22 banks that got the most help from the Treasury's bailout programs cut ...
What if the answer is no?
In Marc Kramer's recent Forbes article titled, The 10 Questions You Should Never Stop Asking, the Wharton School professor identifies ten vital questions that all organizations should continue to ask ...
Hooray the Freelance Economy
Scott Shane's recent article on Business Week is called, "Beware the Freelance Economy." In it, he posits that cheering for the increased number of new businesses is premature, since so ...