A fellow entrepreneur recently wrote me telling me about a new site that he started called textbookpower.com. It’s a solid directory of book purchasing sites that is sure to help any college student save money when purchasing those hefty textbooks that we all hate carrying around.
One of the cool features of this site is the […]
“This blog entry is a response to a topic suggestion by Douglas Hanna. It covers the art of customer service, a subject that is near and dear to my heart. “[The Art of Customer Service]
“Amy Myers will invest her $15,000 award in her business proposal for Spontaneity Designs, LLC, whose product line will include a […]
“For every business there are costs and benefits for the entrepreneur to personally manage and control each different factor. A lot of entrepreneurs and people in general “have to always be in control.” This mindset is why a lot of businesses stay very small and do not grow. At some point if an owner wants […]
“We can now break the news of his most ambitious venture yet: An ad-supported auction site to compete with Craigslist and eBay. It’s called OLX, and it’s already live. We grabbed him for a text interview to give us an update.”[Exclusive: Fabrice Grinda Launches OLX, Says Users Will Challenge eBay and Craigslist]
“Over the more recent […]
“Techdom is renowned for its population of college dropouts who, thanks to innate genius, business acumen, or plain old gumption, actually manage to change the world. Michael Dell, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs — none has a four-year degree. Alex D. Zoghlin goes these luminaries one better: A serial entrepreneur who started Orbitz Inc., Zoghlin never […]
“According to the U.S. Department of Education, 45 percent of students who start college never finish. Brendon Burchard, author of “The Student Leadership Guide” and a prominent human performance consultant at Accenture, the world’s largest management consulting company, thinks he can change that.”[Can College Success Be Guaranteed? ]
“There are some students out there who have […]
“Jaime Wilkins said she doesn’t “struggle to get out of bed in the morning” because she loves going to work, regardless of any challenges she might face in the business world.”[Young entrepreneurs make it work in E.L.]
“MIDDLEBURY — A small but growing program at Middlebury College is matching local entrepreneurs with students and investors to […]
“I have had so many college students tell me that they would like to own a business one day. I always respond with, “Why one day? Why not now?”, and I always hear the same response; “I need to go get experience with a major corporation first.” Unfortunately, 99% of these people will […]
“Creating a product or service to meet your own needs is one of the oldest business inspirations in the book. The thought, “Hey, I would like a service like this” inspires moms to invent nifty gadgets to make child rearing easier, and college students to deliver food to dorms. …”[You’re the Inspiration]
“Technology, after all, is […]
“The principle was suggested by management thinker Joseph M. Juran. It was named after the Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, who observed that 80% of income in Italy was received by 20% of the Italian population. The assumption is that most of the results in any situation are determined by a small number of causes…”[What Is […]
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