Define Your Business Model Archives

Did Bill Gates Start His Day This Way?

I woke up this morning--and "woke" is a very relative term--to find a nice present from our dog on the living room floor, a leaking refrigerator, hungry children, and a husband who perpetually can't find...

byStartupStella

July 29, 2008

Managing Your Business Credit and Cash Flow in a Down Market

As if we didn't know it, the New York Times wrote today, "Banks struggling to recover from multibillion-dollar losses on real estate are curtailing loans to American businesses, depriving even healthy companies of money for...

byRich Sloan

July 28, 2008

Ten steps to workplace success

Your employees are not mind readers or fortune tellers, and your business is not a free-form venue for experimentation, or a place where individual preference based on mood, time of the day, or random circumstance...

bySam Carpenter

July 25, 2008

All in the family?

Are you starting a business with a family member or a close friend? I know, I know. You are incredibly excited. You have a winning, million-dollar idea, and you are pursuing it with one of...

byJessica Eaves Mathews

July 22, 2008

Outsourcing Errands and Excuses My Kids Make

Kids pick up things--not, like, their clothes or anything useful. But they do pick up attitudes and conversations. And then they use them against you. Take my kids, for example. Since my foray into the...

byStartupStella

July 21, 2008

Jill Exler’s jexbo.com PR Tips

In an effort to provide you with PR tips that really work in today's media world, I'll be interviewing various experts and entrepreneurs who will share their personal secrets and advice. To start, meet Jill...

byMelanie Rembrandt

July 21, 2008

Step #3 – Start Your Franchise Analysis

So let's review for a minute. By now, you've: Started discussions with your family and decided that you might be interested in owning your own business, and Accumulated a nice list of opportunities to consider. Now...

byJack Burris

July 19, 2008

Bookshelf: Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution

From the article: Thomas Friedman Calls For A Green Revolution At the Aspen Ideas Festival Thursday, New York Times columnist and The World Is Flat author Thomas Friedman gave a preview of his new book, Hot,...

byChristine Haskell

July 17, 2008

Interior design session, or a lesson in Kabuki theater? Discuss.

There are a lot of personalities and opinions when it comes to interior decorating – as in marketing, everyone thinks they are an expert. When it comes to someone's home however, the opinion is expressed...

byChristine Haskell

July 15, 2008

In Small Business, Is It About College or Training?

Every now and then I get asked or ask the question: what universities could do to prepare their students for a world in business." I was randomly going through articles on Startups at Alltop and...

byChristine Haskell

July 15, 2008

Mommy CEO – Is it Possible?

Six months into launching Glamajama I was driving home from a playgroup with my nine month old son. I caught Dr. Laura on talk radio telling some frazzled work-at-home Mom that there was no way...

byHeather Schuck

July 12, 2008

Finally Some Good News From eBay

Hi gang, A few hours ago, eBay announced that they will no longer be counting Neutrals in a seller's feedback percentage! All sellers will be happy about this - it was one of the dumber...

byKevin Harmon

July 10, 2008

I Will Choke One-out-of-Ten Advice-Givers

Do you know what's the worst thing about starting up a home business, besides the two weeks my husband is on vacation and decides he wants to help me? I'll tell you: it's the "helpful" advice...

byStartupStella

July 8, 2008

Should you still send emails consistently over the summer?

I hope everyone had a great and relaxing Fourth of July weekend, and that you are gearing your business up for the second half of summer. Over the course of the summer months, at least...

byRyan Allis

July 8, 2008

Make an opportunity, solve a problem, part II

After I wrote the post on Plumpynut, I could not get the story out of my head. It was a classic example of a company meeting a need with the simplest of solutions - and...

byChristine Haskell

July 7, 2008

Step #2 – Begin your franchise search

As you start deciding which franchise is for you, there are dozens of sources to reference to gain valuable information about available opportunities. If you are searching for a retail opportunity in your own town,...

byJack Burris

July 6, 2008

Overcoming Failure to Launch

So you’ve got some ideas, a decent prototype, and a couple customers to boot…now what? Sadly, many would-be entrepreneurs fail at running a business before they even start. The complexity of a business plan, lack...

byHeather Schuck

July 3, 2008

Make an opportunity, solve a problem, part I

Mondays just fail to register for me when I don't hear the stopwatch on Sunday evenings. I saw this segment on Plumpynut for the second time on 60 Minutes. I’m glad this topic has come...

byChristine Haskell

July 1, 2008

Is franchise ownership for you?

Good evening Startup Nation visitors! Today we begin a 15-part, five week crash course that will help you decide whether or not franchising is the right thing for you. Starting your own business can be...

byJack Burris

June 30, 2008

Kroger rejects global warming policy

Kroger Co. shareholders rejected five shareholder-sponsored proposals -- all opposed by the board of directors -- at the company's annual meeting Thursday in Cincinnati. Kroger Chairman and CEO David Dillon that the company was already...

byChristine Haskell

June 27, 2008