December 8th, 2007
You’re 19, you have the perfect idea for a business, but you have no investors. You need a front of over $50,000 to get your business started (which is pretty cheap), but the only people from whom you can ask money is your family. Like any business, you aren’t 100% sure if it will take […]
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December 6th, 2007
I fear the worst for the fate of our English language. It’s one thing if you make a spelling error - it is another if your whole language is comprised of abbreviations and misspellings. Will this eventually become acceptable?
I’ve been noticing that abbreviations and misspellings are becoming more and more prevalent throughout the […]
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December 4th, 2007
If you haven’t heard of the Infinite Monkey Theorem, it goes something like this:
If you put an infinite amount of monkeys in a room with a typewriter, all hitting random keys, they will type up William Shakespeare’s complete works.
Let’s apply this to business startups. If you put an infinite amount of young, ambitious entrepreneurs in […]
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December 3rd, 2007
The greatest gift I have ever been given was an education. If there is one piece of advice I could give to potential young entrepreneurs, it would be to get an education. The human mind is a fascinating piece of equipment. Everyone has the same potential to expand his/her mind to the same potential, but […]
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December 2nd, 2007
Here’s how this works. It’s Sunday, people are busy - so I find the young entrepreneur news so you don’t have to!
Original Article from CNN.com
This is an article on how to create true profit. It even has a true profit calculator! Basically the article talks about taking risks and weighing investment options. […]
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December 1st, 2007
For those of you who just got here, “Oh Crap Situations” will be a weekly Saturday installment that includes situations you may one day face, as a young entrepreneur. This week’s situation actually comes from a real situation from one of my favorite restaurants in Atlanta - R. Thomas Deluxe Grill. Part […]
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