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By our own experience and by the sheer volume of callers we talk to on our Radio Show, it’s clear that raising money is one of the most intimidating and difficult parts of starting up a business.
That’s why we’ve chosen Prosper.com as today’s Cool Company.
Prosper.com is a new kind of source of money for startups [...]

I generally dislike forwarded messages, especially the ones that tell me to forward them immediately to ten people or else I’ll probably go to Hell. If I dislike them, my husband despises them. So I was very surprised when he forwarded this one to me. I’m sharing it with you because it [...]

I’m what you would call a “moderate” business traveler. I don’t travel enough to get first class seats unless something unusual happens, but I’ve traveled enough to know how to play some of the angles and I’m fairly efficient at it. I know that packing a suitcase is extremely simple as long as you have [...]

A company as big as Radio Shack takes its integrity very seriously. The New York Times reported (subscription required) that Radio Shack’s chief executive resigned yesterday after revealing that he had lied about his education background.
Here’s a quote from Leonard H. Roberts, Radio Shack’s executive chairman, "When our company’s credibility becomes based on a single [...]

A recent survey about marketing to marketers examined how marketers want to be contacted. It claims they do not want phone calls, they prefer an e-mail with links. They say they don’t want cold calls or face to face meetings.
What the survey didn’t examine is how effective the e-mail strategy really is. [...]

It’s a typical Monday morning in my world. I’ve been an entrepreneur for 21 years and I’ve found that Mondays are the most critical day of the week for me. Monday morning is when I set the course for the entire week, deciding what the priorities of the week should be and then checking myself [...]

The Westminster Show that aired this week was another glowing example of just how crazy we all are about our dogs…
We’re included in the craze - we have 7 (yes, seven) dogs total in our respective homes.
And one of the most common things people do with their dogs is treat them like … humans. People [...]

When Dale Begg-Smith (who grew up in Canada but raced the moguls for Australia) won the gold medal, they kept referring to him as a millionaire. I heard he started an online company at 13 or 14 and was purportedly worth 40 million dollars today– at 21!. I wanted to know what kind of [...]

Podcasting is all the rage among the really cool people these days. And it’s not enough just to be listening to podcasts. (omigod, if you aren’t even listening to podcasts, then you definitely can’t sit at the cool people’s table in the lunch room) In order to be especially cool you’ve got to be creating [...]

A new report by ZenithOptmedia Group claims that ad buying on television is declining while advertisers are spending more money online. A Mediapost article says "Television’s share of ad expenditure is leveling off as the Internet takes over as the up-and coming advertising medium."
Does this create an online marketing business opportunity for small businesses trying [...]