Work at Home Business Ideas

Up And Running:
First, the global view: You’re rowing upstream. You’re facing several real problems.
1. First, the real value in business isn’t the idea but rather the building of the company to create, market, sell and manage the idea. That’s where the money is.
2. Second, ideas are very hard to sell as just ideas, because companies […]

Forbes:
For two years, Eric Louie and brother Calvin pulled the virtual wool over scores of very real eyes.
The duo ran several Web sites that sold access to companies looking to farm out scut work–say “data entry,” typing three or four lines of text into an electronic form, over and over again, to fulfill some sort […]

KVAL.com:
It’s loud, obnoxious and almost deafening, but Jason Quiring said the crazy cacophony may be the solution to greedy gas grabbers.
“I came up with the gas tank alarm,” said Quiring.
Here’s how it works: You turn the alarm on. Walk away and do whatever you need to do. If anyone tries to open your gas tank […]

The Wall Street Journal:
Trademark registration is pretty straightforward. Many businesses can file an application online in less than 90 minutes, without a lawyer’s help, says Rich Stim, a San Francisco intellectual-property attorney. The simplest way to register is on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Web site.
Before completing the online registration form, check the site’s […]

The Wall Street Journal:
Plenty of people have personal Web pages. But are we reaching the point where you need one?
The answer is still “no” — but that “no” is no longer quite so firm as it used to be. And sometimes that hesitation is a sign that the wheels of social change are starting to […]

Arstechnica:
Websites originating in Australia will soon be subject to a rating system that will tell users whether the content is appropriate for children of different ages.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) announced today that it has approved what it’s referring to as the “Content Services Code”—an addition to the Broadcasting Act 1992—and will apply […]

Arstechnica:
Given the fact that copyright has become an unlikely new rallying point for the digital culture wars, you might think that the Copyright Office itself would be the sort of place that’s been accepting online submissions for years. You’d be wrong.
The Copyright Office uses the web solely to offer its federal forms, which users can […]

ars technica:
Here’s the problem that Congress is trying to solve: imagine that you are a well-known graphic artist who gains huge popularity from the funny videos you routinely post to YouTube. One day, you come across a vintage graphic from the 1960s at a yard sale; it would be perfect for your next video, you […]

techdirt:
Nearly all of the economic evidence shows that patents tend to do more harm than good. Researchers James Bessen and Michael J. Meurer have gone into a little more detail as to how much damage is done, but I wanted to focus on why the downsides to patents are so often worse than the upsides.
At […]

Inc.:
The nation’s current patent system is a drain on entrepreneurship and small-business growth, a new study claims.
Amid the increasing complexity of patent legislation, most patents today fail to meet set standards, according to the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council, a Washington-based small-business advocacy group.
Raymond Keating, the group’s chief economist, said the patent system needed to […]