Small Business Briefs – May 11, 2012
More successful small businesses launch in the news – An idea can be just a tweeking, a solution to some tedious or mundane activity and can blossom to compete even with the bigwigs! Here are some more insights into entreprenuers starting a small business. Set Up an Online Business in Hours Inc.com (May 3, 2012) [...]
Small Business Briefs – May 4, 2012 – Leap!
I run across interesting business stories all the time. Here are a sample of just a few great small business and startup stories I ran across this week: How to start a multi-million dollar venture with $10,000 Leap Year: A Big Series About Small Business(online video series) San Francisco bagel boutique models itself [...]
Small Business Briefs – April 27, 2012
Just browzing the news and thought I’d share some of the really great articles I’ve come across. Inspiration, I hope, for getting your idea off the ground: Personal Branding Like The Stars: How A Systematic Approach Will Revolutionize Your Business The Investors Who Laughed at Zynga John Paul DeJoria: Adventures of a serial [...]
Crowdfunding – Creative Financing for Startups
Easily the biggest business killer of a new startup business is the lack of access to financing to get the business off the ground. At the MoneyTalks Cafe we encourage small business owners to create and continually update their business plans. But often business plans for young fledgling businesses are more indicative of aspirations [...]
StartUps Put Tech Spin on Consumer Loan Business
When casting about for a new busienss idea, it’s always a good idea to look at what exists now, but could be done better. Money lending is a case in point. For more than 40 years, banks have counted on FICO scores to determine the creditworthiness of American consumers. Now a handful of California entrepreneurs [...]
Zappos Founder’s Unusual New Startup
A little over a year ago, Tony Hsieh, who is well known for building Zappos into a billion-plus company, announced his company would be moving from its suburban Henderson, Nevada headquarters, where it’s been based since 2005, to the City Hall building in Las Vegas’ overlooked downtown neighborhood. Under the terms of the deal, Zappos [...]