Right now, there are so many options out there for people who want to start careers. For some, they already understand what they want to do in life, and are thus beginning to build influential careers. For some others, the long list of career choices is intimidating. Additionally, choosing a career path is one of the most critical choices you can make in your life. … Continue reading How to Pick a Good Career Path
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 is the key issue to overcome the crisis addressed in the European Commission communication ‘Small Business, Big World – a new partnership to help SMEs seize global opportunities’ presented today. The priority for … Continue reading Europe – Small Business, Big World
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 then add information. The key is that anyone can edit the page (or in our case, add and comment on new ideas), which makes it a very powerful collaboration tool. What Are the … Continue reading Wiki
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. Our grandchildren will watch movies like Office Space with a touch of bewilderment—did people really have to sit in front of a desktop computer for eight hours every day? Yes, this is all … Continue reading Build your dream company from HOME
LAMP is an acronym for a solution stack of free, open source software – Linux (operating system), Apache HTTP Server, MySQL (database software) and Perl/PHP/Python, principal components to build a viable general purpose web server. When used together, they form a solution stack of technologies that support application servers. The LAMP stack offers a great number of advantages for developers: – Easy to code: Novices … Continue reading LAMP – open source software stack
Despite the 2009 financial crisis, the year 2010 was a point of time that actually shows two decades of strong worldwide economic growth. In the 1990-2010 periode, the global economy rose from $22.8 trillion to $58 trillion. The leader and champion of this growth, China now exports more stuff per day than it exported for the whole 1978cyear. Since reforms began in China out of … Continue reading Liquid times
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 wrong choice? First of all it is an initial expense. Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection have a list of nonrefundable franchise fees from tens of thousands to tens hundred thousands of … Continue reading Franchise’s success myth
As businesses struggle to have their websites more interactive and appealing, a video demo can help them do just that. When PC became a necessity and was offered to more and more public, people started to think about making the Internet as a huge bill board – with lots of websites (post-its) and pictures (pictures). This turned out to be successful and now there are … Continue reading Rise and Shine above the Crowd: Taste of Video
Partnerships within the survival-of-the-strongest business world don’t always end with ‘happily ever after’. Microsoft Corp. was spending millions to find a new method to help people conserve energy and count the energy usage for its Hohm line products. The company looked for utilities and devices that could help households track their energy use – the purpose being, if you can see how much energy you … Continue reading Partnership with a big-shot: hope for the best, prepare for the worst.
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 who is the only Canadian to be on the list as Top 30 under 30 in North America – the list was put together by Inc. magazine. It was less than a year … Continue reading Network Through Sprouter
