No. They don’t. Not in the US. Wayne Hogue writing in the The Shreveport Times takes on this myth: Attention! There is no such thing as a grant to start a for-profit business. Business startup grants are an urban legend; a myth that just will not die. I’m talking about grants (i.e. free money, not…
How secure is your computer on the internet? How do you know? Check and make sure at Shields UP! It was easy to do. I just followed the instructions, and clicked on the appropriate buttons. It tested my firewall, to make sure that a hacker could not gain control of my machine remotely. Note that…
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Does your small town have a tourism base? Consider today’s new business idea from Springwise: personalized postcard vending machines. Picture these set up at your local festivals, in your downtown business area, or at the souvenier shop. You can visit the German company Cosmocard for more info. And Springwise has an entire section of Tourism…
Read the story of one woman and her family in rural Scotland. Denice Purdie’s husband was disabled in an accident around Christmas 2004. Her family couldn’t afford to stay in the tiny village of Colintraive, and couldn’t uproot the children to move. At the urging of friends, she started a business selling the organic soaps…
Noah Kagan, Okdork blog, is on vacation. To fill in, he has tapped a group of internet entrepreneurs to share their stories. Today is Mike Li. Li is bucking the usual tips, with ideas like hire those around you and make the best of it! I enjoyed his advice as a break from the usual…
Brian Depew, The Rural Populist blog, has the story on businesses moving into our ruralSchool Buildings for Sale. This is happening all across the US heartland. Nearby Carmen, Oklahoma, recently brought in a pool supply company, to their town of 400. Buffalo, Oklahoma, population 1200, recruited a textbook business, and had two more potential businesses…
Remember my whole series on failure? Maybe I started something! Two posts today from completely different sources contemplating these same ideas. (Odd that they are on the same day…) Mr. R (also known as Roman) is reading Jack Welch’s book, Winning, and thinking about How to act like a winner when you feel like a…
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