If you are looking for seed money to get your idea of the drawing board you can always try to bootstrap it. Here are the typical funding source for most small and start up businesses.
Friends and Family
Home Equity
Bank loans
Peer-to-peer loans
Credit cards
The December issue of Entrepreneur had a nice article by Barry Farber about asking your customer base what keep them coming back. Barry offered ten basic questions you should ask your customers.
What key characteristics do you look for in a successful vendor relationship?
What am I or my company not doing that we could be [...]
My fellow citizens:
I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors. I thank President Bush for his service to our nation, as well as the generosity and cooperation he has shown throughout this transition.
Forty-four Americans have now taken [...]
The economy keeps spiraling and companies are struggling to save money and cut costs. The October 2008 issue of Inc. Magazine had five ideas of saving green profits are in the red.
Send your employees home – telecommute
Share your staff – consult
Get customer to put away their credit cards – avoid transaction fees
Cut back on [...]
The February 2009 issue of Fast Company has a nice feature on the most influential women in technology. Here is the list of the top influential women executives in technology.
Genevieve Bell, Director/Intel
Sandy Carter, VP/IBM
Safra Catz, President/Oracle
Susan Decker, President/Yahoo
Andrea Jung, Board Member/Apple
Julie Larson-Green, VP/Microsoft
Ann Livermore, EVP/HP
Marissa Mayer, VP/Google
Sheryl Sandberg, COO/Facebook
Linda Sanford, SVP/IBM
Megan Smith, VP/Google
Stephanie Tilenius, [...]
This past holiday season I got to catch up on some books I have been having in my bookshelf for some time.
SeinLanguage, Jerry Seinfeld
All I have to say is this book is full of Yadda Yadda. Seinfeld is truly the master of his domain with this book. I thoroughly enjoyed it. The [...]
Currently on Amazon there are over nine books on the Twitter, and more coming soon. For those not yet using Twitter, it is a micro blogging service. Each message update sent to Twitter has a limit of 140 characters. Twitter always asks one single question, What are you doing? And from [...]
I recently traveled to Las Vegas, Sin City… It is often said that what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, but that is not the case when you Twitter about. Here is a compilation of my Vegas tweets.
Just landed at LAS on VX.
Hitting the strip.
Just had diner at Koi in PH, heading to [...]
There are a lot of misconceptions and misunderstanding about the man that will be the next President of the United States of America, Barack Obama. Even still, a large number of Americans believe he is or was once a Muslim. There is a lot that people might not know, for example in high [...]
Twitter has become an sort of digital social soapbox. Here is an aggregation of recent tweet regarding government and politics.
Bush Foreign Policy: 1. Find a map. 2. Find Putin’s soul. 3. Find oil. 4. ?????? 5. Profit. 6. Find Osama.
President Bush is as committed to finding Osama Bin Laden as OJ Simpson is committed [...]