BUSINESS NEWS AND FUNDING

The Best of the Worst Ideas of the Dot.Com Bubble

In the earlier days of the Web, "nobody seemed to care if there was a real business there,"

Basic bookkeeping skills can help keep business running smoothly

Use these tips to help keep your business on a sound financial footing:

Write a Creative Marketing Plan in 7 Sentences

A plan offers a simple strategy or set of strategies, a marketing calendar, an evaluation system, and a selection of weapons and tactics that give you complete control of your marketing.

SBA Newsline Eight May 2006

For your copy of Newsline Eight – go to http://www.sba.gov/region8/index.html

Five Universities You Can Do Business With

Entrepreneurs can also use their influence as parents to change minds. If you have a child in college, ask the deans and department heads about the school’s record of tech transfer, whether there is a technology incubator or industrial park near campus, and so on. If university administrators are asked the same question over and over, you can bet that, eventually, a few smart Ph.D.’s will be dispatched to come up with the right answers.

Creating a Great Spirit of Service at Southwest Airlines; An Interview with Colleen Barrett, President.

Service. Whether you make a piece of hardware, or deliver a face-to-face service, everything we do to create business success revolves around understanding our customers, creating a product or service that satisfies their needs and delivering that value in a way that builds a lasting relationship with our customers.

Goodbye and Good Luck. With employee turnover on the rise, getting the most out of exit interviews is more important than ever.

Nearly all companies conduct some kind of exit interview with employees who leave the fold. But many treat it more as a perfunctory rite of passage than a strategic management tool. That’s a mistake.