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Starting a Business Is Not for Everyone

Starting a Business Is Not for Everyone Avatar Posted by SoloBizCoach under Startups
From http://www.solobizcoach.com 532 days ago
Made Hot by: HeatherStone on December 11, 2010 6:56 pm
While starting a business can be one of the best things for a person, it is not for everyone. How do you know if you should start a business? Well, this article should help. Read More
"Overwhelm" is a word that I have been hearing a lot lately. I hear it from my clients and workshop participants as well as my connections on social media sights. We have a lot that comes at us every day and it is important to have strategies to break out of that overwhelmed state quickly. Read More
Last week’s post discussed joint ventures and other collaborative business agreements involving cooperative efforts between multiple independent parties. This week we turn to a more traditional structure, and examine singular business entities with multiple partners. Read More

Low Maintenance Startups from the 4-Hour Workweek

Low Maintenance Startups from the 4-Hour Workweek Avatar Posted by Small Business Tribe under Startups
From http://www.fourhourworkweek.com 533 days ago
Made Hot by: smallbiztrends on December 11, 2010 11:08 pm
If you've ever read the Tim Ferriss book "The 4-Hour Workweek," you're familiar with Tim's idea of the low maintenance business model. Here are some case studies from entrepreneurs who have taken Tim's advice and built low-maintenance small businesses of their own. Such business could be used to ge Read More

Solo 401K Retirement Plan for Small Business

Solo 401K Retirement Plan for Small Business Avatar Posted by MMarquit under Taxes
From http://personaldividends.com 534 days ago
Made Hot by: DebMark on December 9, 2010 9:03 pm
If you have a home business, one way you can lower your taxable income for 2010 is to open a solo 401k and make a contribution. Read More

John Warrillow: Building a Business You Can Sell (Video)

John Warrillow: Building a Business You Can Sell (Video) Avatar Posted by ShawnHessinger under Strategy
From http://www.inc.com 537 days ago
Made Hot by: Small Business Tribe on December 13, 2010 11:00 pm
Author and entrepreneur John Warrillow discusses how to build a business you can later sell in this series of videos and answers readers' questions. If starting a business or adapting an existing business to make it sell-able is ever something you have considered or wanted to do, these interviews h Read More
Popular Mechanics mailed a bunch of sensors on an epic journey to find out which shipping company is the most careful with your packages. Here's what they found. Read More
You’ve probably noticed in the past few months these weird squiggly square images that look like a cross between a bar-code and a Rorschach test. They’s been popping up in strange places, on product packages, sometimes on store windows, in magazines and in some extreme cases on the walls of buildi Read More
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the world wide web (www), has warned that popular online businesses, services and social networks are fracturing the values of Net neutrality and potentially threatening the Web’s future development.Voicing his concerns via an essay in Scientific American, the techno Read More
Running your own show can be tough, but if you take the time to plan properly before you begin, you’ll be better equipped to enjoy the ride. Here are some of the lessons I learnt when I started out:
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