MKW-Ind.com:
Believe it or not, it is entirely possible for savvy individuals to earn their living through Craigslist. More and more individuals with an entrepreneurial spirit are realizing there are a host of opportunities for those who are willing to work hard to earn a living through hard work, learning about online communities such as Craigslist […]

Voice of America:
The National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship www.nfte.com/ helps youngsters from low-income communities to build skills and unlock their entrepreneurial talent. In San Francisco, VOA’s Mike O’Sullivan spoke with aspiring entrepreneurs who took part in a competition to prepare a business plan.
High school student Vivian Chau, like most Asian American youngsters, loves a drink […]

New Era:
Chinese businesses have been at the receiving end, especially from local retailers and the construction industry who blame Chinese firms for, among others, killing the local markets with inferior quality products, as well as disregarding the laws in tendering for construction contracts.
Perceptions aside, nevertheless, the presence of Chinese products presents a window of […]

Washington Post:
With gas prices rising and the stock market diving, we could all use ideas for saving a little money. Here’s one we thought was worth passing along:
If you’re carpooling in someone else’s car or using mass transit instead of driving to work, call your car insurance company to see if you’re eligible for […]

Wall Street Journal Blogs:
Anyone who’s started a business knows it can strain the best relationship. Even working together can be tricky. The New York Times wrote a story yesterday about the challenges of men working for their wives in entrepreneurial ventures. To smooth egos on the home front, many women made conscious efforts to give […]

Real Business:
First, a definition. Business format franchising is ‘a commercial relationship whereby one party allows another to operate clones of a proven business system, and provides initial and ongoing training and support in doing so, in return for initial and ongoing fees’. So, if you have a business, which can be operated as a branch […]

Business Opportunities:
Scott Amron came up with a clever idea using magnets and money.
He created some awesome Cash Money Clips that are made from real money. You can even use the money clip as currency when you are low on cash!
Amron offers his cool Cash Money Clip design in 1, 5, 10, 20, 50, and $100 […]

Fresh New Small Business Ideas:
Property management is a business that is regulated and requires a real estate license in many states. This first step requirement means that the potential buyer of an existing business would need to be qualified to run the business. They would also need to meet the same requirements to start one […]

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 […]

New York Sun:
Cedric Bernard and his wife, Sandrine, were two months from the end of the lease on their two-bedroom apartment at 63rd Street and West End, and with a toddler in the house and another child on the way, they needed more space badly.
The condos they’d seen in Manhattan were too expensive, and they […]

Creating With Impact:
Reality 1: An entrepreneur is an inventor, although few inventors are entrepreneurs.
Reality 2: Entrepreneurs do not buy business opportunities; they create them.
Reality 3: Invention is contagious.
Reality 4: To an entrepreneur, the success of the invention - the business - is measured by growth.
Reality 5: Everyone possess the ability to be an […]

Indirector.com:
The business world today can be a very intimidating place for a Christian entrepreneur. You see, business today has gotten to a very competitive point. Money makes this world go round. All over the world some people would do anything for money.
This fact makes most Christian entrepreneurs afraid. Most think that money will somehow corrupt […]

Entrepreneur.com:
* Assess your brand promise. Your brand is your promise to your customer. It tells them what they can expect from your products and services, and it differentiates your offering from your competitor’s. Your brand is derived from who you are, who you want to be and who people perceive you to be. Your brand […]

Furniture Style:
1. Eliminate the costly practice of having two locations for customer pick-up
From: Joe Quintal, Rotman’s Furniture
2. Partner with manufacturers to create a national “Win a Room Full” Web-based contest for consumers
From: Jerry Wingate, Micro D
3. Put a store logo on an eye-catching, eco-friendly “smart car”
From: John Wells, Wells Home Furnishings
4. Create an incentive plan […]

Patently-O:
Patents on computer programs, financial processes and business methods have been controversial at least since the 1960s. Surveys regularly find that computer programmers are opposed to patents on software by a wide margin. In what other field is the class of inventors so opposed to patents?
Is there a problem?
Some people contend that there is […]

Chicago Tribune:
Forget garage sales - Leanore Ransom’s best finds are the contents of storage units bought at auction.
That’s where she bought her Victorian living-room furniture and oak dining set for her Belmont home.
These days, her storage-unit finds - from CDs to tables - also make up the inventory at her new store, Blickety […]

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 […]

Washington Post:
The rapidly growing Hispanic population will have a profound effect on the landscape of the small business community, said marketing expert Chiqui Cartagena, who also noted that Latino women now make up the fastest growing segment of entrepreneurs in the United States.
Latinos accounted for about 15 percent of the total U.S. population in July […]

Wall Street Journal Blogs:
Here are five sites to check that may help business owners find insurance, with comments on each:
1. eHealthInsurance.com. This agency site is good for all-around health-insurance shopping and online quotes. Information isn’t available for every ZIP code, however.
2. DigitalInsurance.com. This broker offers services for small businesses with online quotes for individual plans.
3. […]

Chicago Tribune:
On the way to launching a profitable food-service business, Chicagoan Eric Paul Meredith worked as an employee at four major corporations.
In between, he tried his entrepreneurial hand at real estate, dry cleaning and a restaurant, but he was short on capital and expertise.
This time, though, Meredith is confident his healthy-meal delivery business, AlterEatGo.com, […]