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Select the best hosting for your small business website. This is the second part of Creating a website using wordpress. Read more about this on this article Read More
While browsing the web for small business ideas and tips, I discover a resource that is fascinating: The DaVinci Method that can better your as an entrepreneur Read More

How Are Investors Like Produce Suppliers?

Avatar Posted by ShawnHessinger under Raising Capital
From http://www.feld.com 5277 days ago
Made Hot by: Jed on June 17, 2010 5:01 pm
Are investors like produce suppliers to the restaurant that is your business? Think about this for a moment and then read the post by Venture Capital investor Brad Feld relating this interesting metaphor. I'm not sure I really agree with it completely. Though this may be because my brain keeps getting tangled around the idea that a restaurant as a business would pay for its produce. But what Brad is suggesting here is that we forget the idea of the restaurant as a business and look at it as a metaphor for your business. Just as your business can't make products or create services at a certain level without capital so a restaurant couldn't make dishes without ingredients brought by produce suppliers Read More
While 41 percent of private companies in the U.S. are owned by women, only 3to 5 percent receive Venture Capital, the high profile funding often associated with major startups especially in the technology industry. Nick Leiber makes the case for more women partners for Venture Capital firms as one possible remedy Read More
Once in awhile, I receive an email or two from a loyal reader of this blog suggesting that I'm being rather negative, when it comes to my writing. I think that I'm a realist. I think I... Read More
It's the most important part of your due diligence. Now, unless you're going to become a franchise owner because you want to save the planet, I'm thinking... Read More
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Here's a GREAT questionnaire I developed to find out why! It allows you to obtain feedback, improve your business marketing and get your foot through the proverbial door! Give it a try Read More

Quick Thought – Week of 6/13/10 – Todd Youngblood's

Avatar Posted by tyoungbl under Sales
From http://ypsgroup.com 5278 days ago
Made Hot by: keenan on June 14, 2010 2:44 pm
Quick Thought for the week of 6/13/10. Prepare!!! We all need to wing it now and again, but thorough preparation is an amazingly powerful credibility builder Read More
The smart retailer recognises that women are not a niche. They recognise that women are the long run.

Reaching women consumers is not a trend. It’s the lucrative future, for anyone who grabs it. Slightly tweaked male-oriented products or marketing efforts will no longer do. Read More
On the heels of Yoni's post on marketing and advertising blunders, I found this UNBELIEVEABLE item. It's almost too CRAZY to believe!

Let's call it "How to Do Irrepairable P.R. Damage to Your Company With Assinine and Idiotic Marketing Decisions! Read More
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