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Unemployment in US promotes the appearance of entrepreneurs
US Goverment has started a program in eight states to support entrepreneurs by paying their jobless cash weekly and giving them training to undertake, in case they want to be entrepreneurs. Although the program is not too known, it is well received by entrepreneurs because the high unemployment in the current economic situation is being hard for many jobless people. More detailed report by clicking the link.
Source: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iq987XcjIc8mvumsoME...
Comments | Categories bSherpas | Submitted s260419 | 6 months agoAfrican Entrepreneurs do not want to rely on handouts
When BRICs (name for the group of the biggest emerging countries: Brazil, Russia, India and China) are developed countries and their markets are auto sustainable there will still be a big market for the entire world: Africa. Some countries in Africa are already considered emerging markets like South Africa, Kenya or Nigeria and their entrepreneurs are watching changes around them that make them think they alrea...
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFABdPOpr2A
Comments | Categories Groups | Submitted bsherpas | 6 months agoEntrepreneurs to start up a franchise
Do you want to be an entrepreneur? Do you have limited resources? Don't you want to assume many risks? Maybe what you need is to start up as a franchisee. In the last decades many companies have decided to grow and to get presence in different markets allowing entrepreneurs creating thir businesses as brand of successful companies. This system, known as franchising, is very popular in Europe and US, ...
Source: http://www.forbes.com/2009/08/22/best-value-franchises-entrepeneurs-f...
Comments | Categories Business ideas | Submitted bsherpas | 6 months agoGuerrilla marketing for entrepreneurs
Guerrilla marketing is a concept developed by Jay Levinson consisting in using cheap but effective tools in getting to customers. Jay Levinson detected some years ago that every market is divided in 4 levels, where the last lowest one is occupied by small companies trying to survive in a big companies' market. One of the tactics used by this small companies consists in using tools given by the market th...
Source: http://www.entrepreneur.com/marketing/guerillamarketing/article203248...
Comments | Categories Resources | Submitted bsherpas | 6 months agoBrainstorming overnight for entrepreneurs
Springwise blog talks about a brainstorming service with results overnight. Ideas culture is an Australian firm that offers a service of brainstorming that entrepreneurs can use to get ideas generated by crowdsourcing. In order to get it, the company uses online tools like twitter. Thousands of people can be part of the brainstorming process solving a problem. The fast results obtained by social media makes...
Source: http://springwise.com/marketing_advertising/ideasculture/
Comments | Categories Resources | Submitted bsherpas | 6 months agoWhat do women entrepreneurs need?
It is something known that women entrepreneurs worldwide are the key to get development. In this post a women entrepreneur explains how she knew about the potential women entrepreneurs have, and how important they are for their communities' development. But in order to get real development, women entrepreneurs need access to some key factors they do not really have right now. In this report she expla...
Source: http://www.californiawomen.org/women-entrepreneurs-the-key-to-global-...
Comments | Categories Resources | Submitted bsherpas | 6 months agoBusiness Ideas for entrepreneurs by Tom Stemberg
Tom Stemberg is one of the greatest serial entrepreneurs ever. His story starts in an office in the early 80s. He wasn´t able to find white paper to print with and decided to create an office supplier. This way was born Staples, the biggest office supplier that sells 10 billions per year. Some years later he had some problems to find shoes for his children, so he started up Olly Shoes. The next company...
Source: http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2003/1208/074.html
Comments | Categories Business ideas | Submitted sergio | 6 months ago"Social Media Revolution" surprises the world
This video by Socialnomics has traveled around the world in just a few days. It is a brief description of the main numbers of the social media that surprises for the size of the global movement that represents. - one out of eight couples married in US last year met via social media - The social segment with fastest growth in Facebook are 55-65 years old females - There are more than 200 million blogs. ...
Source: http://www.youtube.com/user/Socialnomics09
Comments | Categories Business ideas | Submitted cecilia | 6 months agoThe impotance of the business plan for the entrpreneur
Report from the Epoch Times about the importance of the business plan. The author explains how a business plan is something basic for the success of a company and how many entrepreneurs try to start up without it. Very important report any entrepreneur should read before trying to undertake without a business plan.
Source: http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/22051/
Comments | Categories Resources | Submitted sergio | 6 months agoTaliman: Native women entrepreneurs: Good business for Indian country
Some native Indian women entrepreneurs have started up companies in their country with the result of thousands of new jobs created. India is experiencing a new wave of Indian women entrepreneurs and realizing that support them is basic to develop, as they do not only create jobs but also wealth.
Source: http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/opinion/57010012.html
Comments | Categories Cases of Success | Submitted marcosotoherrera | 6 months agoMiami entrepreneur makes right moves in board game industry
Eric poses is an entrepreneur from Miami who has been successful during current crisis time. He started a company up dedicated to the board games and last year had a revenue of almost one and a half million dollars. His success is specially significant because he got to success competing with video games, PCs, Internet...
Source: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1216717.html
Comments | Categories bSherpas | Submitted bsherpa | 6 months agoThe Entrepreneur's Source Chosen as Top 100 Franchise by World ...
The Entrepreneur's Source is a franchising company dedicated to give business coaching to entrepreneurs. After 9 years of appearance in the top500 of Entrepreneur Magazine's Franchise List, the Entrepreneurs Source is been included for its first time as a top 100 by the World Franchise Network
Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS199712+03-Sep-2009+PR...
Comments | Categories bSherpas | Submitted chema | 6 months agoEntrepreneurs who want to go global should not be afraid
This post, about one of the problems of growing to external markets takes the story of a a Kenyan entrepreneur woman. Using her case to explain why not to be afraid, it talks about the real risks of going global and how fear can be a huge opportunity cost.
Source: http://womenentrepreneursgrowglobal.org/2009/08/21/to-go-global-shift...
Comments | Categories Cases of Success | Submitted sergio | 6 months agoBusiness idea: Entrepreneurs creating eco housing businesses
Springwise brings us a brilliant business idea. Due to the international real state crisis and the ecological awareness many entrepreneurs can find business opportunities in ecological building. In this post Springwise tells about eco houses that are built using blocks as a Lego toy
Source: http://springwise.com/eco_sustainability/hibsystem/
Comments | Categories Business ideas | Submitted sergio | 6 months agoWhan a business fails is the entrepreneur's fault
The web "Entrepreneur" blames entrepreneurs for the fail of their companies. To say it is not economic situation´s fault it gives several ironic advices about running a company: 1. Forget teamwork 2. Do not delegate too much 3. Do not raise salaries 4. Be afraid to be motivated 5. Blame yourself for the fails, not the economy
Source: http://www.entrepreneur.com/startingabusiness/startupbasics/article20...
Comments | Categories Cases of Failure | Submitted sergio | 6 months agoSignificant Investment in infrastructure´s improvement helps develope Mobile Market in Angola
The Angolan mobile market needs to be developed in order to get economic development in the upcoming years. Interesting report from Reuters about the investment in this market. Good for entrepreneurs from Angola or other countries looking for business opportunities in Africa.
Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS142414+03-Sep-2009+BW...
Comments | Categories | Submitted chema | 6 months agoQuestioning the Return on Educational Investment
During past years many people have invested huge quantities of money in education. Business schools around the world have been offering expensive programs and executives from around the world have invested in their education because it had a return in no more than two years. But considering the new situation of markets and the lowering salaries. Is it still a good investment?
Source: http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/03/questioning-the-return-...
Comments | Categories Resources | Submitted ceciliasoto | 6 months ago