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New Options in Small Business Health Insurance

WSJ:
Small-business owners who concluded a few years ago they couldn’t afford health insurance for their workers may want to take another look.
Insurers are offering more varied plans that include less-expensive options. Nonprofit groups and legislators have paved the way for small companies to band together in purchasing cooperatives to get lower rates. A handful of […]

Join the Army: Get Funded!

According to the Wall Street Journal, the US government is going to begin offering army recruits startup cash:
The Army has been enlisting youths for decades by promising them money for college. Starting in January, it will try out a different sort of pitch in selected cities: offering up to $40,000 toward the purchase of a […]

MBAs Are Dead

NY Times:
There is a rising reaction against management theory, according to The Economist. A new book by the management expert Gary Hamel, “The Future of Management,” notes that several well-known executives of hot companies — among them, Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google and John P. Mackey of Whole Foods Market — did not […]

My Favorite Books of 2007: McIlHenny’s Gold

One of my favorite business book of 2007 was McIlHenny’s Gold: How a Louisiana Family Built the Tabasco Empire.
Few products are as immediately recognizable as the bottle of Tabasco sauce. In the book, author Jeffery Rothfeder tells a fascinating story about the remarkably long history of the distinctive bottle and the family business that […]

8% Annual Return with No Risk

Yesterday, PFBlog explained a nifty trick for making a risk-free investment with the US government and receiving a return of 8% from the Internal Revenue Service. How’s it work, you ask? In a nutshell:
You make a large estimated tax payment for 2007 in March 2008.
When you file your 2007 return in April, […]

Survey: Which 2008 Presidential Candidate Would be Best for Small Business Entrepreneurs?

Which 2008 presidential candidate would be the most friendly to small business entrepreneurs?
Joe Biden
Hilary Clinton
Christopher Dodd
John Edwards
Mike Gravel
Rudy Giuliani
Mike Huckabee
Dennis Kucinich
John McCain
Barack Obama
Ron Paul
Bill Richardson
Mitt Romney
Tom Tancredo
Fred Thompson
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Original post by Dane and software by Elliott Back

Car Magnet Business Opportunity

Although young drivers represent only 6.6% of the nation’s licensed drivers, they are involved in 14.8% of fatal crashes. The
Original post by Dane and software by Elliott Back

Happy Blog Birthday

Six years ago this month, this website was born. Today, it’s the number one business blog in the world.
Thank you for all for reading.
Original post by Dane and software by Elliott Back

Tumbling in the Cash

Yahoo News:
All Linda Katz had to do was step outside of her house to make thousands on the Internet. Now the Midwestern entrepreneur is building a business selling a piece of the old west online: tumbleweeds.
Linda started her online business, the Prairie Tumbleweed Farm, as a joke. It was 1994 and she wanted to teach […]

Lights! Camera! Profit!

Wall Street Journal:
By far, the most common element among successful videos is comedy. Rather than offering airless advertisements or canned commercial messages, these videos deliver laughs as well as pitching a product.
Case in point: Blendtec, a division of K-TEC Inc., of Orem, Utah. In the past year, the high-end blender maker has drawn more than […]