International Banking Basics

We keep hearing stories about rich businessmen and corporations around the world opening up Swiss bank accounts and parking loads of money into international banks. We probably wonder about the amount of…

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Learning from Jugaad Innovation

“Jugaad” is a term popularly used in India. It originated from Sanskrit word yugat later converted as jugat, jugad, and jugaad in modern use. It means having a creative idea or an…

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Business lessons from Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein was a theoretical physicist, philosopher, author, and is perhaps the most influential scientists to ever live. He published many scientific and non-scientific works and is popularly known for his explanations…

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The West Bank “Silicon Wadi”

The West Bank is becoming the budding Palestinian tech sector and though outsourcing contracts are the foundation of the industry there, the business model that the West Bank tech sector looks to…

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Staying SMALL can help you get BIG

The New York Times recently wrote about companies that physically downsized by moving employees into smaller amounts of space and how they not only saved significant amounts of money, but also increased…

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Dabbawala – The Box person

A Dabbawala is a term used for a person in India, commonly found in the city of Mumbai, who is employed in a unique service industry whose principal business is collecting freshly…

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Gardner’s Pursuit of “Happyness”

Christopher Paul Gardner is an American entrepreneur, investor, stockbroker, motivational speaker, author, and philanthropist who, during the early 1980s, struggled with homelessness while raising his toddler son, Christopher, Jr. Gardner’s personal struggle…

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Data Mining – the power of the spreadsheet

Data mining is a method of identifying and extracting hidden patterns from within data. Identifying unusual patterns or behavioral anomalies is the key goal of this process. By analyzing the numbers your…

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Learning from the OSCARS

Here’s how the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and ABC engaged viewers digitally to bring them closer than ever to the main event — and giving business owners ideas for…

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From BackRub to Google.com – the facts

Fact 1 – Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in California. Fact 2 – While…

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Europe – Small Business, Big World

European small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) should better profit from fast growing emerging markets, such as in China, India, Russia or in regions like South East Asia and Latin America. This…

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World’s Most Intriguing Startups

Scribd uses iPaper which is a rich document format similar to PDF built for the web, which allows users to embed documents into a web page. iPaper was built with Adobe Flash,…

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Wiki

A wiki is web software that allows you and others to create and edit interlinked web pages. This means that you can very quickly create a page (let’s say “New Ideas”) and…

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SharePoint – A great tool for Small Businesses

Microsoft SharePoint is a popular web application platform developed by Microsoft for small to large organizations. It is designed as a centralized replacement for multiple web applications and supports various combinations of…

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Build your dream company from HOME

The age of the virtual company is upon us. Future historians may look back and declare that the concept of offices began their slow but inevitable extinction some time around 2011 A.D.…

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Grow your Small Business with 3D

Whether you’re a small business or multi-national company interested in expanding your promotional options, or a designer who wants to offer the most possible to your clients, 3D animation and 3D design…

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iPhone, Blackberry, Android app development

Mobile applications are transforming the way small businesses acquire new customers, service their clients and manage their operation. The new generation of iPhone, Blackberry and Android mobile devices offer an unmatched level…

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Franchise’s success myth

Each year about 26% of young businessmen start their first business as a franchise, but just 66% of them are successful. So what are the main problems that ending up with the…

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Network Through Sprouter

This new free social networking website is spreading fast and wide: already rooted in 170 countries, connecting entrepreneurs across the world. Sprouter is a networking site designed for entrepreneurs, by Sarah Prevette…

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CPR: Chatr Perks up Rogers

The launch of discount mobile phone brand ‘chatr’ arms the telecommunication champion with a counter for the rookies. Rogers Communications Inc. announced the launch of its discount cellular phone brand ‘chatr’ a while…

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