Xconomy:
The University of Washington has hired someone with business chops to run the office that transfers university inventions into the business world.
Linden Rhoads, a serial entrepreneur at Seattle-based technology companies, will take over as Vice Provost for Technology Transfer on August 14, the university said in a statement. Rhoads has been involved in a number […]

PRWeek:
Visa launched a Visa Business Network for small business owners on Facebook in an effort to take its existing relationship with entrepreneurs a step beyond the business cards and services it offers.
The network, unveiled June 24, offers small business owners the opportunity to network among themselves and with their customers.
“Over the last 12 to 18 […]

San Francisco Chronicle:
The U.S. Small Business Administration offers 10 classes this week at its SBA Entrepreneur Center, 455 Market St., Sixth Floor, San Francisco:
Monday classes will focus on public speaking skills and how to computerize your business.
Tuesday’s class is on how to collect your business debts.
6 classes are scheduled Wednesday: free and low-cost resources for […]

Reuters:
Young, tech-savvy South Koreans are making coupon clipping a thing of the past and turning to their mobile phones instead.
Some of the fastest-growing mobile phone services in the country let retailers send discount coupons and users send gift certificates for anything from lattes to movie tickets through their handsets. The merchandise vouchers have a barcode […]

Emax Health:
A study at the University of Liverpool has revealed that entrepreneurs are driven to start companies by their passion for ideas rather than the pursuit of wealth.
Researchers who asked entrepreneurs and small business leaders about their motivations for achieving business success found that only 6.9% were driven by financial reward. Those surveyed cited a […]

Hit Search:
Yahoo! Inc. today announced recipients of its ‘Seeds for Success: Empowering Women Entrepreneurs’ grant program, choosing 3 unique, innovative business ideas from more than 5,500 proposals.
The grant recipients were selected by Yahoo! and Carolyn Kepcher, entrepreneur and former star of NBC’s ‘The Apprentice.’ Each grant package includes $20,000 in cash, $5,000 in web site […]

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 to the hilt, are toiling under great […]

Reuters:
Women own nearly half of the businesses in the U.S. but 97% of them report less than $1 million in revenue.
They’re being held back by factors ranging from culture to childcare and a lack of confidence, says Count Me In for Women’s Economic Independence.
‘There’s this group called the missing middle,’ says entrepreneur and women’s […]

Small Business Trends:
We have had a lot of negative information in the news lately, with the foreclosure problems, bank solvency and the economic slowdown. This spate of bad news got me thinking about how successful entrepreneurs often see negative information differently from the rest of us. They often see opportunities in negative news.
For instance, several […]

Tech Social:
* Tue. Apr 8th, 2008 @ 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Technology Entrepreneur Center, University of Illinois - Illini Center, 4th Floor
Address: 200 South Wacker Dr., Chicago, IL 60606
Fee: $ 12 in advance, $ 15 at the door
Register online or call Stephanie at 217-244-3124
Please join the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaigns Technology Entrepreneur Center for an Illini-TEC […]

Bizjournals.com:
Niagara County businesses woman Cathey Sandman decided to drop health insurance coverage for herself and her husband earlier this year after their monthly premiums grew larger than their mortgage payments.
Less than 2 weeks later, Sandman, whose licensed day care in Lockport serves 21 children, was in the hospital having her appendix removed. She’s now […]

National Ledger:
This is an invention that can finally help. Are you always losing your car keys around the house? And once you spend 15 minutes finally locating those where is your iPod so you can jam out on some tunes on your trip? It happens to everyone and you can’t just call it like you […]

Women Entrepreneur:
The Center for Women’s Business Research has released its 2007 update of Key Facts About Women-Owned Businesses. Among these facts:
* Women own 50% or more of 10.4 million firms, employing more than 12.8 million people and generating $1.9 trillion in sales.
* For the past 2 decades, majority women-owned firms have grown 2 times the […]

Real Business:
Enabled 4 Enterprise (E4E), a new initiative aiming to break down the barriers preventing London’s 800,000 disabled people from starting their own businesses, was launched last week.
E4E was launched in conjunction with a new report called the Barriers and Opportunities Report, which noted that 57% of London’s 800,000 disabled people of working age are […]

Boston Globe:
Drivers, start your engines.
For the first time in 30 years, Massachusetts motorists can today start comparison shopping for competitively priced auto insurance.
The Division of Insurance has launched a website - mass.gov/autorates - that allows consumers to get competitive quotes from the roughly 20 companies that sell auto insurance in the state. The average driver […]

The Daily Star:
Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed has asked banks and other financial institutions to ease their lending system so that loans at a reduced interest rate for any SME (small and medium enterprise) scheme taken up by women entrepreneurs are ensured.
‘All private and public commercial banks should set up SME operation units or desks in […]

PR-USA.net:
The Small Business Marketing Blog, announced today that the blog will now take commercial posting opportunities through the PayPerPost market place. The author of the blog has committed to maintain ethical practices related to writing articles commercially. The blog will be available in both the general marketplace as well as for direct hire at PayPerPost.com.
‘This […]

Quem ficou em casa que pare de viajar na maionese e seja mais Criativo embarcando no Universo da Blogosfera. Os 82 blogs e sites indicados em forma de astros pelo querido amigo e blogueiro Marcus Vinicius Pavan são imperdíveis, você vai gostar!

Bizjournals:
The Arizona Small Business Association is showing its love for commerce with a Valentine’s Day gift for businesses.
Businesses can listen to a free teleconference with Michael Gerber, author of ‘E-Myth Revisited,’ from 10 a.m. on Feb. 14. Entitled, ‘Love Your Business, Live Your Dream,’ the program is designed to help inspire and encourage entrepreneurs in […]

Entrepreneur:
… To keep you up-to-date on laws that could change how you do business, here’s a look at some of the new rules and regulations being implemented this year.
Hiring illegal immigrants may actually become illegal. Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano signed the Fair and Legal Employment Act, which suspends and revokes the business licenses of […]