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Employee or Entrepreneur? The Pros and Cons of Self-Employment

J.D. at Get Rich Slowly recently took an interesting look at the pros and cons of self-employment. His perspective is especially interesting because his blog is not about bootstraping - or any other kind of entrepreneurship. It's just about personal finance... Although I tend toward entrepre...

Common Errors in Writing a Business Plan

VentureBeat had a useful piece a few days ago on common mistakes that get made in the process of writing a business plan. The top of the list is a mistake people make even before they start writing: they procrastinate. It's easy to find distractions (such as your busy schedule) to prevent you...

The Mercedes Folding Bike

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Java vs. Mono

SD Times' David Worthington this week published an excellent article contending that Microsoft's Mono framework has become more popular for Linux desktop applications than Java . "'We have seen a real spike in Mono [application] development for the Linux desktop over th...

AMR: Oracle/Sun to 'Wreak Havoc' on Enterprise Software Market

InformationWeek's Deborah Gage this week noted that a new report from AMR Research finds that (according to Gage) " Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems and Sun's Java programming language could 'wreak havoc' on the enterprise software market... because so man...

Download Java, Get a Free Month of Online Backup

Sun Microsystems and Carbonite have announced a partnership under which users who download the newest version of Java will receive a free 30-day trial of Carbonite Online Backup . "Carbonite Online Backup installs in a few clicks and runs automatically in the background, continuall...

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Get a Handle on Expenses

Karin Price Mueller had a piece not long ago on how to get a handle on your expenses that should be required reading if you manage a business. This is not the kind of economy in which you should be spending unnecessarily. Some expenses are obvious areas to pare back, but others-those vampire expen...

Can You Get Money from the Government? Maybe...

Michael Sanibel had a helpful blog post recently on government grants. He looks at all the basics: What is a grant? Who can qualify? How do you apply? What types of grants are available? What are the advantages and disadvantages of getting a grant? Why would a grant application not b...

Can Wind Power Make a Profit?

© Tracy O Forbes took a look at that question this month. Forbes looks at one specific example... A windmill doesn't make economic sense, even though this poor entrepreneur is gouged 19 cents per kilowatt-hour from his utility. A 121-foot, 100-kilowatt turbine from Northern Power runs $...

Social Entrepreneurship using Facebook

I don't know how many of you have a personal profile in Facebook (I guess most of you at the website has grown to more than 200 million users) but what I have found out recently is that Facebook is not only a website for sharing photos and contact info. with friends but also a good way of st...

Apple Finally Patches Java Vulnerability

© arquera Apple this week finally released a patch for a serious Java security flaw that's been around since December of last year. "The flaw is fixed in Mac OS X 10.5.7 and Mac OS X 10.4.11, available from Apple's website or via OS X's built-in software update mechanism...

Genuitec Intros MyEclipse 7.5

Genuitec this week released version 7.5 of both MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench and MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench Blue Edition . "For our Blue Edition customers we're proud to share new design and advanced layouts that IBM shops will feel comfortable adopting," says Genuit...

How to Create an Action Plans

Times are tough. In the midst of tough times, sometimes a business manage has to do something . But deciding to do something is different than deciding how to do something... Entrepreneur.com had a good piece recently on creating an action plan. This is the number one secret to effective goal...

Problem Solving is Key

Success in starting a business is mostly about figuring out what to do when challenges arise. So I couldn't help but get a little excited when I say this point on problem solving . In the piece Sid Kemp looks a six basic steps to assessing and solving problems. And in his view, most of it is c...

Microsoft Hearts Java

© A Y U M i (LoveLiveLaugh) At last week's JavaOne conference, Microsoft execs did their best to woo the Java developers in attendance. "'I want to say, absolutely, we come in peace,' pledged Steven Martin, one of a pair of Microsoft executives to address the crowd at ...

Entrepreneurial Life

...er knowledge of the subject. Of course, these are generalizations that don't apply to every entrepreneur, but evidently most of them wish they'd made the jump to the world of entrepreneur...

Social Networking With Purpose

Entrepreneur.Com had a piece recently that made a simple point: You should be selective with your social networks. The simple truth is that social networking can be a time consuming endeavor. It's easy to get bogged down trying to read all your Twitter posts. Social networks can become redun...

Coming Soon: Java-Based Netbooks?

© nDevilTV At this week's JavaOne conference in San Francisco, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison raised the idea of creating Java-based netbooks. "The expansion into computers is considered a logical offshoot by Ellison given Sun's experience in hardware and other fields outside of ...

Time to Start Your Business? Maybe...

© Domain Barnyard It's easy to be a pessimist when things really are bad. But the truth is that opportunity doesn't fly as a passenger on the wings of today's economy. It charts its own course... I saw a piece recently at YoungEntrepreneur that reflected on a short list of com...

Social entrepreneurship: A three decade history

Skoll Foundation has created a n excellent video giving an overview of social entrepreneurship initiatives done in the last 30 years. Leaders from Acumen Funds, Skoll Foundations and some entrepreneurs like Mohammad Yunus offer their point of views about the opportunities in this area. ...

Beer company to contribute to social entrepreneurship movement

Beer companies are also joining social movement; yes that's right: As a part of the 250th anniversary celebrations behind brew master, Arthur Guinness's signing of the 9,000 year lease at St. James Gate in Dublin, Guinness has pledged to raise €2.5 million in start up capital for its Art...

Viral Marketing Chocolate Grasshoppers

...eting gurus with a simple message: if you can eat one of these, you probably have the guts to be an entrepreneur, too. From Rob May, founder of Lifestream Backup articulated the idea: “My theory is t...

ROI Measurement and Misunderstanding

So I have a question for the audience: when you are measuring ROI on SOA projects, are you looking at just the SOA team production, or do you look at secondary effects? That's assuming you look at ROI on your SOA projects at all; apparently 40% of companies engaging in SOA projects don't....

Wine Time: the Bunnel Family Cellar in Washington State

Entrepreneur.com had an interesting piece this month on a family winery and wine bar in Prosser, Washington. The Bunnel Family Cellar was recently opened on the Yakima River. The 3,700-square-foot winery and wine bar, called Wine O'Clock, showcases their two labels and "gives customers ...

Using Video to Boost Your Profile

© renaissancechambara Entrepreneur.com pointed out recently how easy it is to create and host online a video about your business. It's a powerful marketing tool that can give your business' image a big boost. It's not hard to make a video look pretty professional with an inexpen...

Entering an Era of Virtual Currencies?

There's money. People (me included) carry it around in their wallets and save small pieces of it in the ashtrays or cup holders of their cars. And they buy things with it - hamburgers, gasoline, and sometimes other small things. Then there's checks and credit cards. We pretend they're ...

Sun CEO Announces Plans for Java App Store

Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz this week announced plans to launch an app store (currently called Project Vector) for Java software. "It will be modeled after Apple's iPhone App Store and will allow users to download and install new software over the Internet," wr...

Apple Fails to Patch Key Java Vulnerability

© bfick Apple has been slow to fix a key Java vulnerability which has remained unpatched for months, according to a security memo released this week by Intego . "While Apple's safety record is pretty good — that is to say the actual number of security breaches on the platfo...

Franchises: WYNTK

We talked recently about how well franchises do during a recession. To balance that I thought I'd point out this piece by Jeff Elgin on buying a franchise. Elgin looks at some things you should know about a franchise contract. One of the things he points out is that strong franchises usual...

Working with a Web Designer

It's getting harder and harder to have a business and not have a web page. But most businesss owners don't really have the in-house talent necessary to create a site on their own. So they find a web designer... Entrepreneur.com had some good tips recently for working with a web designer...

Cashing in on the disgust with banks

Last week, I did a blog entry looking at how banks were going to face more intense competition in the wash-up from this financial crisis. To put it bluntly, banks will be losing market share to such forces as peer-to-peer lending, Islamic finance, boutique advisory firms and retailers setting ...

Hope Cleaning Services creates sustainable jobs in San Antonio

Social Entrepreneur is an individual who identifies an environmental or social problem in society and creates a venture that will direct its goals to improve society and the environment. A business entrepreneur creates a business that will generate profit; a social entrepreneur produces a company th...

Dayton RFID Convergence Center: World’s First Business Incubator for Start Ups

It is being dubbed as world's first business incubator for start ups pertaining to the field of RFID. The Dayton RFID Convergence Center is located at the thirty acre Tech Town Business Park and is scouting for RFID firms who would like to bring over their technology experience. It will...

SpringSource Buys Hyperic

Enterprise Java vendor SpringSource has purchased Hyperic . Terms of the deal were not disclosed. "The move will expand SpringSource's Java offerings and allow the company to provide a more comprehensive open source stack," writes Ars Technica's Ryan Paul . "Spring...

The Balance of Life

...en from the prospective of an entrepreneur's wife. She starts with this: Slide into bed with an entrepreneur, and you wind up cuddling with his business. At a certain point, the entrepreneur's...

Failure Whets the Appetite for Success

Brad over at Feld's Thoughts had some interesting ideas to share recently about everybody's favorite topic: failure. More specifically, he looked at how failure impacted the entrepreneurial spirit. Give me the experienced entrepreneur whose last company was a failure 100% of the time. The ...

JCP Announces 2009 Star Spec Leads

The Java Community Process (JCP) Program Management Office (PMO) today announced the 2009 Star Spec Leads , recognizing JCP Spec Leads who maintain high quality along with exceptional service to the community. The awards are based on feedback from fellow Spec Leads , Expert Group members...

How Sound is Your Business Plan?

I recently reported at BizPlanHacks on some research that shows that business plans don't get start-ups funded by VC's. But what do we care? A business plan takes on a whole new meaning in the context of a bootstrapped business. PE Hub 's Joanna Glasner rightly points out that the...

From Ideas to Reality

© technotheory Nicole Wong at VentureBeat recently took a look at some basic rules to live by if you want to get your ideas (business of otherwise) off the ground. And excellent rules they are. She collected the rules by listening to presenters at a two-day conference - the 99% Conference ...

Oracle and Sun: What's Next?

© storem Following Oracle's $7.4 billion purchase this week of Sun Microsystems , what does the future look like for both companies? "Sun made its name as a supplier of server hardware during the dot-com heyday, but its best-known technology is software: the Java programming langu...

Clothing Optional in Bavaria

TravelPost had an interesting spot earlier this month on the 32-room Hotel Rosengarten in the Black Forest region. It will soon become Germany's first nude hotel, "catering solely to those willing to shed clothing for the duration of their stay..." The project from entrepreneur F...

PreEmptive Releases DashO 5

PreEmptive Solutions today announced the release of DashO Version 5 . "DashO 5 offers the same runtime session and feature monitoring that PreEmptive's Dotfuscator does for .NET developers," writes SD Times' David Worthington . "That includes instrumenting Java appl...

Renegotiating in Down Times

Robert Jones made the point recently that in an economy where businesses are failing and everyone's concerned with cutting costs, renegotiating your costs is a meaningful strategy. Everything can be renegotiated. Everything . If it was negotiated to start with in some way, it can definitely...

What's Next For Sun?

© tehduh The talks between IBM and Sun Microsystems have broken down, and it's unclear what will come next for Sun. "Sun and IBM failed to agree on terms and a price, which IBM reportedly had dropped from $10 to $11 per share three weeks ago to as little as $9.40 in the past few...

Hard Questions for a Business Leader

Entrepreneur's David Javitch had a blog post a couple of weeks ago now that's stuck with me. He looks at five questions any business owner/manager needs to consider in the current economic climate. and they all have to do with employee relations. Your employees need you most when times are...

Entrepreneur 2.0

名称： Entrepreneur 2.0 简介：面向企业家的社会化网络

Google to Invest in Biotechnology

Google is launching "Google Ventures" a new venture-capital fund which will invest across a range of industries, including consumer Internet, software, clean-tech, bio-tech and health care. According to the Boston Globe report : Google Ventures will scout for entrepreneurial oppor...

Introducing MindTouch 2009

MindTouch today announced the release of MindTouch 2009, "extending the development platform's collaboration capabilities through a bidirectional message bus," according to InfoWorld's Paul Krill . "With the bus, push-based e-mail notifications can be sent. MindTouch ...

Characteristics of a Successful Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur took a look a couple of weeks ago at what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur and the piece has floated around in my mind for a time now. Author James Stephenson lists 25 common characteristics of successful entrepreneurs for the article. (It's actually an excerpt from his b...

The Value-Price Relationship

Entrepreneur had a good piece by Barry Farber earlier this month on how the relationship between value and price can make or break your business. I remember seeing this statement above a local printer's office: Price, Service, Quality (Please pick two) If you choose to lower your pr...

GAE Gets Java

The Google App Engine (GAE) is expected to soon get full support for Java. "Java is definitely important to Google, and the company has a seat on the JCP , which makes it kind of strange that Java hasn't been part of Google's cloud offering," notes JavaWorld's Josh ...

The Personality of an Entrepreneur

Young Entrepreneur had a piece recently on entrepreneurial personality. It was an interesting look at the importance of matching personality to your job function. The article interviews consultant Bill Wagner of Accord Management Systems. Word to the wise, we can't change our personality bu...

The story of the Kiva from its founder

Jessica Jackley Flannery, an MBA graduate who founded Kiva, the micro lending website has written the story of she came up with the idea of her company in Stanford Social Innovation Review (It's a bit old, from Sep. 2008, but interesting...the link is here ). She got obsessed by the idea ...

IBM Buying Sun?

© lumaxart The Wall Street Journal this week broke the news that IBM is considering purchasing Sun Microsystems . "Teams of International Business Machines Corp. lawyers are examining Sun Microsystems Inc.'s contracts and documents in a due-diligence process that could take a...

Staying Motivated

Young Entrepreneur hand some sound tips on Things to avoid if you want to stay motivate in your business venture. Top of the list: Avoid getting a knock back. You know what that means: Perhaps you've had a day of cold calling and nothing good has come of it. Maybe the contract you had co...

Tax Extension: E-File Business and Personal Extensions at FileLater

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Sun's Ian Murdock Joins the Great OS Debate

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 1624654 At next month's Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit , representatives of Sun Microsystems , Microsoft and the Linux Foundation will debate the future of their respective operating systems. Expect bloodshed. "Linux Foundation Ex...

Confessions of a Startup Addict

Ivan Widjaya over at Noobpreneur had a cute piece Monday. He confesses that he's addicted to starting new businesses. Ivan looks at the symptoms of his addiction (with an eye toward helping to decide if you share his problem). Then he looks at himself as a case study. I started dozens of busi...

OSBF Creates Bridge Between Java and .NET

The European Open Source Business Foundation (OSBF) this week introduced the Internet Service Bus (ISB), a platform that leverages service-oriented architecture (SOA) for cloud computing and creates a bridge between the Java and .NET worlds. "The secret sauce that blends the Java and ...

Gregg Ruth Jewelry

Designer Fine Jewelry Gregg Ruth & Company is a privately owned, Malibu, California-based jewelry design and manufacturing company founded in 1981. With over 600 bench jewelers and 750 new styles per year, CEO Gregg Ruth brings a defining vision and synergy to his diamond, gemstone, an...

Sun Intros GlassFish Portfolio

Sun Microsystems this month released the Sun GlassFish Porfolio , a complete Web application platform based on GlassFish . "With an integrated AMP stack that works alongside Java, Sun's new GlassFish Portfolio aims to help the company extend beyond its core Java application serv...

WagerLog: Track Your Gambling Stats

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Introducing AribaWeb

Ariba, Inc. this week released its AribaWeb application development framework. "AribaWeb features AutoAJAX, which produces interfaces automatically, InstantApp technology so users don't have to maintain their own interface code, Live Edit & X-Ray so developers can see how code...

New book: The power of unreasonable people...

George Bernard Shaw once said: "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all the progress depends on the unreasonable man". This is the main theme of the book "The Power of Unreasonable People...

Mark Cuban's Open Source Funding: Can Your Business Plan Break Even in 60 Days?

Entrepreneur Mark Cuban wants to fund your business plan. IN the words of Seth Godin , he's calling your bluff: Post a business plan that meets certain criteria and he'll consider funding it, right here, right now. There's a short list of 13 requirements. You can find those at Blog M...

Sun Launches JavaFX Mobile

Sun Microsystems this week introduced its new JavaFX Mobile platform. "JavaFX Mobile, which makes its formal debut next week during GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, won't replace Java ME , the Micro Edition for smartphones, mobile phones and other handheld devices,&qu...

Google Experimenting with AJAX Search Results

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 863840 SEO Smackdown's Michael VanDeMar broke the news that Google now appears to be delivering AJAX-based search results. "AJAX can use more memory than pages generated by flat HTML, especially in Internet Explorer, so some older machines w...

The Guts To Be An Entrepreneur... (Do You Have What It Takes?)

Young Entrepreneur published a post late last month. Call it inspiration if it motivates you, or scare tactics if you think about the hardships it mentions and you decide that maybe the life of an entrepreneur is not for you... The post is a follow up on an earlier story about Bill Hewlett and D...

Java EE 6 Platform Draft Published

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 2267590 As InfoQ's Dionysios G. Synodinos reports, "The public draft of the Java EE 6 Platform specification has been published and will remain open for public review and feedback until the 23rd of Feb, 2009. Maybe the most notable part of t...