If you live in the U.S. Northeast or Pacific Northwest, chances are you see plenty of entrepreneurial-minded companies creating new ideas, jobs and technologies and embracing globalization. But you might not be so lucky if you live in the South or the Great Plains.
The Kauffman Foundation yesterday released its annual report ranking U.S. states on [...]
The predictions list for Obama cabinet members is an impressive one. But where are the entrepreneurs?
As we’ve noted, many small-business owners are feeling pretty blue about policy makers’ lack of attention to small-business matters right now. They complain that politicians are either ignoring the great financial burdens entrepreneurs face (no bailout for you!), or they’re [...]
A new survey finds the gloomy economy may be turning more people off entrepreneurship as a career option – before they’re even old enough to have careers.
A poll released yesterday by Junior Achievement USA, a Colorado Springs, Colo., organization that hosts after-school programs for youth, found that fewer teens surveyed were interested in eventually starting [...]
Editor’s note: On Mondays, we’ll be interviewing 2008 Top Small Workplaces winners about their companies and the unique workplace practices that help make them successful. You can read the full 2008 Top Small Workplaces package here. You can also nominate a business for Top Small Workplaces 2009 here.
Performance-review season is here, and many people aren’t [...]
Is it almost time to say goodbye to yellow pages?
Publishers of the local directories often dropped on doorsteps are bleeding money, my colleague Emily Steel writes today. These directories rely on small businesses in particular for advertising, but many businesses are reining in their marketing budgets in the bad economy and buying fewer yellow pages [...]
On Fridays we’ll be linking to a roundup of useful, informative, or entertaining articles and blog posts related to entrepreneurship from across the Web. Have a great weekend!
- Online customer review site Yelp.com is introducing a new feature that lets business owners write descriptions of themselves. [Entrepreneur]
- Don’t forget to ask these questions before buying [...]
Four days with no sleep. Almost round-the-clock physical challenges. Mandatory push-ups (at least 10) for every meal, at exactly every six hours. And swimming 1,000 meters in the Pacific Ocean.
“I had never swam in my life before, in the ocean,” says Yacov Wrocherinsky, founder and chief executive of Infinity Info Systems Corp., a New York-based [...]
On Fridays we’ll be linking to a roundup of useful, informative, or entertaining articles and blog posts related to entrepreneurship from across the Web. Have a great weekend!
- Online customer review site Yelp.com is introducing a new feature that lets business owners write descriptions of themselves. [Entrepreneur]
- Don’t forget to ask these questions before buying [...]
Four days with no sleep. Almost round-the-clock physical challenges. Mandatory push-ups (at least 10) for every meal, at exactly every six hours. And swimming 1,000 meters in the Pacific Ocean.
“I had never swam in my life before, in the ocean,” says Yacov Wrocherinsky, founder and chief executive of Infinity Info Systems Corp., a New York-based [...]
Small-business owners have long been considered reliable voters for the Republican Party. Republicans, after all, were thought more likely to give them tax breaks and not pile on burdensome regulations that cost money and time.
But there’s evidence that small-business owners may have swung a little further left this election.
A recent analysis of election contribution [...]