Virtual Entrepreneur

CareerOverview: Entrepreneurship and Startup Find investors, business opportunities, business tools, and other entrepreneurs by following these sites. PartnerUp: You’ll find all sorts of resources for locating property, finding contacts, and getting answers to your business questions. Startup Nation:... More

Virtual Entrepreneur blog has been featured on Executive MBA Programs blog by Adrienne Carlson. It’s always nice to have our work recognized by our peers but it’s even nicer to see that many moms are rocking their businesses. Congrats to all of them and enjoy the list: Advice & Support... More

CBC.ca: While newspapers throughout North America struggle with declining revenues, a Chicago entrepreneur plans to launch a new newspaper that reprints blogs in print format. The first issues of The Printed Blog are to go on sale Tuesday in Chicago and San Francisco. The three-page, full-colour newspaper... More

Search Engine Watch: 1. Do the keyword research. If your most relevant keyword phrases have zero or very few searches, start rethinking right now. 2. If the keyword research works out, move forward and buy a good domain — but don’t spend too much. If it doesn’t work out you’ll... More

Skelliewag.org: If you’re interested in running a big business model blog, here are some principles to keep in mind: * Small niches probably won’t work here unless you’re selling an expensive product or service. If you’re relying mainly on advertising, you need to have broad appeal (which... More

BBC: The advertising slogan says that what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. But at Blogworld Expo it was more likely to appear online, either written up on a website, as a photo on image sharing sites such as Flickr, or as a video clip uploaded to YouTube. Blogging has continued to grow in the last... More

Seth’s Blog: “I never click on ads.” It’s almost a badge of honor to say that. The subtext is, “I’m too smart/busy to waste my time doing that,” or perhaps, “I don’t want someone to sell my attention.” But the real effect is that you’re... More

Killer Startups: Whether you are an Internet entrepreneur or investor, determining the profitability of a website will be much easier with Bizak.com, a site that computes the valuation and profitability of Internet startups. The data calculated for each startup includes revenues per visitor, costs... More

PR Web: If you suffer from back pain, you are not alone. Americans spend $50 billion each year in an attempt to relieve back and even neurological ailments, second in number of occurrences only to headaches, as reported by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. At the center of... More

NYT: They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece – not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may know it by a different name: home. A growing work force of home-office laborers and entrepreneurs, armed with computers and smartphones and wired... More