Funding and Building your Business

It pays to be a little paranoid when it comes to protecting a company’s intellectual property, experts say.

With Ajax, we’ll no longer need desktop applications. Our data will be available to us everywhere we go, because it will all be stored on Ajax-based Web sites. Who needs Microsoft or other makers of desktop software? We’re finally free!

Alan Vuong, who has movement in his arms but not in his fingers, recently got work doing data entry. He says employers are often unaware of what people with disabilities can do.

Companies that teach technical staff how to communicate well with different kinds of people not only get a more effective IT group, they engender employee loyalty.

Miller’s view is that most companies hire to fill open positions, to keep head count rather than add unique skills to their staffs.

Exit strategies are discussed as much among small business people as it is with the corporate giants.

How do you define trust?

Businesses can take some simple steps to improve the relevance of a Web site for search engines — and traffic and hopefully business — without spending lots of money on search-engine optimization.

Because people dine out more often than they choose dentists, restaurants so far make up the bulk of online reviews. But as review sites become more established, they will gradually accumulate entries about all kinds of businesses.

“There’s no better compliment than people who want to work for you,”