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Pirate Bay's Weird New Business Plan

July 1, 2009

BusinessWeek: Daily & Breaking News, Top Stories from BusinessWeek News

New owners of swashbuckling Swedish outfit will bundle and resell the collective bandwidth of its users into a giant peer-to-peer network

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Bling Nation raises $8M for cell phone payment system

July 2, 2009

VentureBeat / Dean Takahashi

There’s something cool about buying stuff in stores with your cell phone. They do it in Europe and Asia, so why not here?

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DEMO announces $1M media prize

July 2, 2009

VentureBeat / Matt Marshall

Here’s the latest reason why entrepreneurs should consider launching their products at the fall DEMO conference in San Diego: Two winners, as selected by a panel of individual judges, will be ...

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Why I Don’t Hide That I Work At Home

July 2, 2009

Web Worker Daily / Nancy Nally

Web workers, especially those of us who are self-employed, will sometimes encounter people who, it seems, take us less seriously because we don’t have a corporate cube to work in.

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The Count: Hope and Peril After an Escape From the Cubicle

July 4, 2009

New York Times / By PHYLLIS KORKKI

A yearning for independence simmers in the heart of many a 9-to-5er, but being your own boss comes with a major amount of risk.

Why Business Plans Don’t Deliver - WSJ

July 4, 2009

BizDeansTalk - business management education blog / blogmaster@deanstalk.net (Santiago Iniguez)

Click here for the article of the Wall Street Journal, June 22, 2009. The five most common flaws—and how to fix them. An economic downturn is a great time to start a business.

Car dealer fights Chrysler over franchise

July 4, 2009

Business -- MiamiHerald.com

A poster in Jim Tarbox's office at his North Kingstown Chrysler Jeep dealership declares: "Challenge: The harder the course, the more rewarding the triumph."

RI car dealer wrestles with Chrysler bankruptcy decision, appeals to keep franchise

July 4, 2009

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Debt, Class Warfare and Entrepreneurship

July 1, 2009

The VC Channel

There is an uneasy relationship among debt, democracy and capitalism, as a new FT column ably makes clear. Here are some excerpts, starting with why debt in the U.S.

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Small businesses vital to economic recovery go bankrupt

July 1, 2009

USATODAY.com Money - Top Stories

Entrepreneurship and new small businesses are supposed to lead us out of the recession, just as they have in prior downturns, ...

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Twitter vs. FB: Which Is More Effective for Local?

July 2, 2009

Screenwerk / Greg Sterling

I just spoke in some detail with Dylan Fuller who is behind the “Cheers to Social Media” UK social media case study that I referred to earlier today.

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Rocky Carroll doubling down on NCIS franchise

July 2, 2009

TV Squad / Allison Waldman

Filed under: OpEd, NCIS, Casting, Reality-FreeLeo G. Carroll did it in 1966. Lisa Bonet sort of did it in 1987. What am I talking about? Double duty.

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Joined the Board of Chinese P1.cn

July 2, 2009

Net / Net

I'm very happy to announce that I joined the Board of Directors of P1.cn. P1.

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July 15th is deadline for long-term deals of franchise players; Bengals are ranked 118th; Now we're ranking fashion in the NFL?

July 2, 2009

Cincy Jungle / Kirkendall

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Market research vs. gut instinct

July 2, 2009

VentureBeat / Chris Morris

Jeff Hawkins, founder of Palm Computing and the inventor of the Palm Pilot, knows a thing or two about innovation.

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Most people buy a ticket. Gordon Brown buys the entire franchise

July 2, 2009

Shhhh! He’s on the train. Yes, I mean Gordon Brown. It’s top-secret but it’s true. I wish I knew more but if I did I’d have to kill myself. Still I tried. My first call about ...

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Philip Haigh: Debacle raises questions for franchise system

July 1, 2009

The Independent - Business RSS Feed

There are hard questions to be asked about rail franchising.

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Steelers Ranked Third in ESPN’s “Ultimate Standings” as a Franchise

July 1, 2009

Steelers Gab / Matt Loede

Steeler fans already know just how lucky they are to root for the best football team in the world.

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Cinching sales with sports scores

July 1, 2009

VentureBeat / Steve Blank

When I was a young marketer I learned how to listen to customers by making a fool of myself.

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Is entrepreneurship declining in America?

July 1, 2009

TigerHawk / TigerHawk (noreply@blogger.com)

A professor at Case Western has data -- graphs with trend lines -- that purport to show that Americans are starting fewer businesses than they used to do.

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National Express stripped of East Coast franchise

July 1, 2009

Telegraph Business

The Government has nationalised the East Coast mainline after stripping National Express the troubled bus and rail operator of the franchise.

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Business plans, business models, who needs them?

July 4, 2009

Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing / DonDodge

For a long time I have wanted to write a post about the irrelevance of business plans. Twitter got VC funding with no business plan and no business model.

PWT: TNA News: TNA video game franchise without a home after Midway Games bought out; Analysis of interesting domino effect involving WWE

July 4, 2009

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Calif. small businesses cut staff, salaries in June

July 4, 2009

The Orange County Register: Homepage

SurePayroll survey finds more cutbacks in western states than nationwide.

Biggest Worries of Small Business

July 4, 2009

Kicking Over My Traces / cehwiedel

Red Horizon Buy From Art.

Remember when you were a kid?

July 4, 2009

BlueWave Media Cafe - Kimberly Beaven » About / Kimberly Beaven (info@bluewavemedia.ca)

Remember when you were a kid and you thought nothing ws out of your reach, nothing was impossible and you could do anything?

IOUs spell uncertainty for Calif. small businesses

July 4, 2009

Forum: News/Activism / Yahoo News

BERKELEY, Calif. – Business consultant Katrina Kennedy has taken her young son out of preschool and put a family vacation on hold.

For all you micro/small business owners, here is something for you (Australia only)

July 4, 2009

Business of Marketing and Branding / David Koopmans

Ok, this is something a little different.

Rail Franchises

July 4, 2009

Biz/ed - What's New?

In December 2007, the transport firm National Express announced that it had won the right to operate the East... (02/07/2009)

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