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What’s Your Major? You May Be A Future Entrepreneur

The Wall Street Journal:
Someone’s college major may be a good predictor of whether he or she eventually becomes an entrepreneur.
A new working paper by the Small Business Administration’s Office of Advocacy follows the career choices of 1993 college graduates with bachelor’s degrees using data gathered by the U.S. Department of Education, and looks at four […]

The Blogging Scholarship Is Offering $10,000 To One Blogging College Student

If you attend college and you love to blog, then College Scholarships.org is looking for you! They are reaching out to college students with unique, interesting blogs filled with information about themselves and/or the things they are passionate about.
Entries are being accepted until October 31st, 2008 at 12am (PST). Once submissions are closed, […]

Club Z! In-Home Tutoring

With all the tutoring businesses that focus on you bringing your child to their facility, there is another option. Club Z! is an in-home tutoring franchise which allows customers to bring the tutor to them. The student gets to enjoy receiving the help they require while in the comfort of their own home.
Currently […]

Homeschool Your Kids into Business

Whether you’re an entrepreneur that also homeschools (like my family), or you would just like to teach your child the basics of starting their own business, the website Homeschool-Entrepreneur.com is a new and growing resource to help. Compiled by veteran homeschool/entrepreneurs, it offers resources for starting a home business, and teaching your children […]

Huntington Learning Center

Named a “Top 25 Performing Franchise” by StartupJournal.com, Huntington Learning Center is probably one of the top businesses that comes to mind when considering a tutoring program. Having been established in 1977, they didn’t really start spreading out into franchising until 1985.
Each year there are more children entering school, more so than ever before. […]

improvA Simpifies The Search For A Good Tutor

As schools get back in session and kids get back into their studies, any potential needs for a tutor is going to become pretty apparent very soon.
There is also another start-up in session as well, improvA. They are opening up a whole new way to find a tutor. Unlike learning centers and tutoring […]

8 Skills They Didn’t Teach You In School

LifeHack:
Lately, I’ve been simultaneously using less and less of what I learned in school while discovering more and more skills that are vital to success which were never even offered in school!
So what are the top skills that should be taught to every man, woman, and child who enters our education system?
• How to […]

Get Your “Personal MBA”

BusinessWeek:
Do you really need to spend upwards of $80,000 in tuition and take two years off to become senior management material?
The supporters of an alternative method, the Personal MBA (PMBA), say no, and it’s an idea that’s developing some traction.
According to the advocates of the Personal MBA, all you have to do to measure up […]

Small Biz Owners Have Many Learning Options

The Associated Press:
An entrepreneur who’s mystified by accounting or putting a marketing plan together can get some help, and soon, with the arrival of the fall semester.
Schools, colleges and universities around the country offer a variety of courses aimed at small business owners, and many cost little or nothing.
Some of the courses are given on […]

Entrepreneur’s Have Learning Options With Local Colleges

Pro2Net:
An entrepreneur who’s mystified by accounting or putting a marketing plan together can get some help, and soon, with the arrival of the fall semester. Schools, colleges and universities around the country offer a variety of courses aimed at small business owners, and many cost little or nothing.
Many who take courses became entrepreneurs after working […]