2010-04-13 16:16:23
Your brilliant idea may indeed be brilliant--or it may need some work. Here's how to find out whether you're ready for startup. Somewhere between scribbling your idea on a cocktail napkin and actually starting a business, there's a process you need to carry out that essentially determines either your success or failure in business.
2010-04-13 16:17:39
Yes, there are thousands of businesses you could start, with more emerging daily thanks to new technology and good old-fashioned ingenuity. Yet despite the vast universe of possibilities, there are a few essential steps you need to take before starting a business, any business.
2010-04-13 16:18:56
Almost daily, someone asks me how to get their invention to market. The inventions are as varied as the creative people who developed them. They have ranged from child feeding devices to software programs to frozen foods to electronic gardening tools to cell phone accessories.
2010-04-13 16:20:09
Shortly after my college graduation, a few friends and I started a new media company. Within a few weeks we fleshed out the concept, wrote a business plan
and set out to seek financing. With a little hustle, I managed to get us a meeting with a well-known investment firm to discuss the opportunity.
2010-04-15 13:40:48
Building a social website isn't the same as adding social elements to a website. You're not just plugging in a widget to your website to show the streaming newsfeed from your blog. If your business model is focused on building a social website, what does this mean from a development point of view?
2010-04-15 15:03:49
NBC reported 58.2 million page views of its Winter Olympics programming on the mobile web and iPhone app through the first 11 days of coverage.
If the thought of your prospects fixing their attention on your company anytime and anywhere through their mobile phones sounds appealing, you'll be happy to know that the options for reaching consumers on mobile devices are growing broader and less expensive.
2010-04-15 15:03:05
Rudy Mendoza makes no bones about his strong aversion to computers. "I don't enjoy them," he states flatly.
So what's a cyberphobic jewelry maker from West Covina, Calif., doing on the vanguard of online marketing, intrepidly--and, some would argue, unwisely--testing a strategy to build his company"s web presence that is nothing if not unconventional?
2010-04-15 15:04:25
As a smart entrepreneur, the biggest problem to contend with in regards to cyber criminals is that they're smart entrepreneurs, too. They're highly motivated and technically proficient hard workers.
What they're after isn't fame or notoriety. It's about money. Specifically, that means stealing data--personal and business facts and figures that can be used to generate illegal profits.
2010-04-15 14:05:56
By ELAINE KURTENBACH, AP Business Writer
SHANGHAI – China's economic growth surged to 11.9 percent in the first quarter, possibly giving Beijing room to allow its currency to rise, but analysts warned it faces growing pressure to cut back stimulus and keep the world's third-largest economy from overheating.
2010-04-15 14:08:17
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Occupancy rates in hotels in Bangkok, the Thai capital that has been the scene of violent clashes between anti-government protesters and security forces, are at about one-thirds of expectations, a spokesman for Federation of Thai Tourism Associations said on Thursday.
