Start-Up
A Start-up Takes on Wal-Mart
Recently-launched Alice.com is Brian Wiegand’s fourth Internet start-up, but the first to take on the consumer-packaged goods industry. Brian Wiegand is no stranger to start-ups. His first business, BizFilings, launched in 1996 from his basement and later sold for $15 million to a public company. He and business partner Mark McGuire went on to start [...]
Bee all you can bee
Young entrepreneurs ditch the cubicle for a whole new take on office space
A Dozen Don’ts for Entrepreneurs
Most advice to entrepreneurs focuses on what they should do: build a great product, assemble a great team, provide great service. All are “duhisms.” Unfortunately, many entrepreneurs don’t realize that there are things they should specifically avoid doing too. These are also duhisms, but somehow no one ever talks about them. Here is my list [...]
Why Your Startup Needs a Lead Dog
In dog-sled racing circles, a lead dog is a very valuable commodity. A good lead dog spells success or failure. In your startup, you will hear all kinds of excuses from your new sales staff. Excuses like, “The prospects have never heard of us!” or “If we would only advertise on [insert the most expensive [...]
Teens Are Building Their Own Job Engine
PERIODS of high unemployment tend to be particularly hard on teenagers, who wind up competing for jobs with more experienced, laid-off adults. When Faith Borden, 16, of Metuchen, N.J., applied for a job in March to be a counselor at a summer day camp, she looked around and saw “all these 30- and 40-year-olds,” she [...]
Out-of-work student now a green’ entrepreneur
The work is a lot like being a chimney sweep – that is, the only chimney sweep in town, because it had never occurred to any of the neighbors to sweep their chimneys. The business model invented by Chris King, 19, a freshman at USC living in Huntington Beach, Calif., with his parents during summer [...]
A Look at the Membership Site Business
Running a membership site has exploded in popularity as an Internet business model. Online business owners are finally recognizing what the “early adopters” discovered years ago: membership sites can be extremely profitable, have a low start-up cost, and can actually be fun to run. The concept is easy enough. You have some information, knowledge, or [...]
