Wired:
Ready to taste envy? To burn with regret? Meet Paddy Donnelly and Lee Munroe. They’re selling words at a buck per letter. Donnelly, 22, and Munroe, 23 — graduate students at the University of Ulster-Belfast — dreamed up the Big Word Project while brainstorming a mass collaboration Web site that would let Donnelly use his […]
Paul Kedrosky Blog:
There is a new report out from my friends at the Kauffman Foundation on precisely this question: The age (and education) of U.S. tech entrepreneurs. What is the distribution? How is it changing?
Perhaps surprisingly, the report shows that U.S. tech entrepreneurs are, if anything, older than expected. People founding tech companies over the […]
InformationWeek:
One-person companies are earning upward of $1 million in revenue annually. How do they do it? With high-speed Internet connectivity, mobile apps, automation, and a little help from their customers.
InformationWeek profiled one-person companies that are currently reaping more than $1 million in revenue annually. These businesses have a number of things in common. First, all […]
Entrepreneur:
Excuses, excuses. I’ve heard them all. “It’s faster if I just do it myself.” “I’m afraid I’ll forget to tell them something important.”
Sound familiar? You know that in order to grow your business, you need to grow your team.
Yet as small-business owners, there’s something in us that fights against asking for help. It’s almost like […]
The New York Times:
Last month, Betsy Stein made a beeline for Bloomingdale’s to buy a shirt, but the top she found was $280. Stein, told herself that in the current economic climate, she shouldn’t charge it.
“With the scare of the downturn,” she said, “I decided to cut back on my shopaholic problem and exercise […]
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