Students consults can help your business
July 30, 2008
The New York Times profiled a college class at Stetson Univeristy, headed by Professor Becky Oliphant. The students helped a $33 million parachute company, Complete Parachute Solutions Inc., analyze their sales and improve their business model. read more
Can CUIL compete with GOOGLE?
July 28, 2008
Pronounced “cool”, the launch of new search engine Cuil.com is the next in a line of many who have tried to slay the Google beast. Cuil does have some serious competitive advantages, like 120 billion indexed pages (about 3x that of any other search engine). Designed by ex-Googlers Anna Patterson, her husband Tom Costollo, and two engineers Russell Power and Louis Monier, the team thinks they finally have Google beat. read more
Make Yourself Famous Like Julia Allison
July 24, 2008
Meet Julia Allison. She’s made a brand of her own name, via self-promotion. What does she does? Well she models, posts her entire life online, and let’s the world watch. Her LIFECAST. In other words - she’s famous because she’s famous. read more
Business Week Fresh Entrepreneurs
July 23, 2008
BW features several Fresh Entrepreneurs in this new, ongoing project. The first of it’s kind features several great concepts, including a high-end sneaker store that turned profit in 6 months and a gift shop for the deceased. read more
Top 10 Small Business Owner Woes
July 23, 2008
The National Federation of Independent Business has recently released a report on the top 10 matters that plague small business owners. read more
Batman: Dark Knight Destroys Box Office Records
July 21, 2008
Biggest Opening Midnight Screening: $18.5 million
Biggest Single Day: $67.87 million
Biggest Opening Weekend: $155.34 million
More after the jump on this record-setting film. read more
High Flying Advertising
July 18, 2008
Selection.com is a great tool for HR professionals, providing background checks and other information gathering techniques to help hire the right people. But while most companies spend their ad dollars on magazines, radio, television, and other conventional media, CEO John Hart has better ideas. At a cost of about $30,000/year, Hart sponsors Team Fastrax, a skydiving group with chutes emblazed with the companies logo. read more
How To Green Your Work
July 17, 2008
TreeHugger.com is a great resource for sustainability news and information. They provide a number of “How To” guides to green up your life - in this case, the office place. Take a look
Felix Dennis - How To Get Really, Really Rich
July 15, 2008
Felix Dennis is the founder of Maxim Magazine, along with a number of other publications. In his new book, How to Get Rich: One of the World’s Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets, Dennis shares some of the secrets that made him a near billion dollar man. He’s preaches that becoming successfully rich involves not working for anyone but yourself.
Inc Magazine interviewed Dennis at his New York offices.
For a book called How to Get Rich, you spend a lot of time dissuading potential entrepreneurs from trying. You say I’ll need to get used to groveling and failing, and I’ll need to be so driven, it may put my marriage at risk or hurt my relationship with my kids.
It’s kind of a crazy thing to decide that you’re going to be worth tens and tens and tens of millions of dollars and set out to do that. It doesn’t suit everybody. I warn people throughout the book that if you’re not driven by this desire, you really shouldn’t try. It will lead to a lot of heartache and a lot of sacrifice — and not just you doing the sacrificing.
THE CIRCLE Professional Networking Event - 07.25.08
July 15, 2008
THE CIRCLE - Miami’s Premier Professional Networking Community invites you to our 2nd Friday Happy Hour Event.
Date: Friday, July 25th
Time: 6pm - 11pm
Location: TEMPLO LOUNGE - 619 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach
OPEN BAR: 6pm - 9pm