There’s a lot of talk about “early round” investors in startups, but the true “early round” honors usually go to founders, family and friends. If you include yourself in the “founder” leg of that triad, what do you need to know to get the other two legs – the friends and family – involved in […]
Entrepreneurs spend a lot of time thinking of great ideas to build a business and eventually make money. Hackers today seem to be spending even more time thinking of larcenous ideas to build great scams and make money ASAP. Let’s check in with some of the latest scams so we can better protect ourselves. Verification […]
This post brought to you by MetLife Small Business. The content and opinions expressed below are that of Susan Solovic. The Internet has had two very interesting, and important, impacts on small businesses. First, it has lowered the barrier to entry for entrepreneurs and second it has raised the bar for customer service. If you […]
They won’t give you the shirt off their backs, but they’ll sell it to you! That seems to be part of the philosophy behind some of the first forays into selling via Snapchat. While Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram are putting “click to buy” buttons on social media posts, the road between posting a post […]
Some will trumpet today’s announcement of a two-tenths of one percent drop in the June unemployment rate as great news, but in fact it just masks the truth of what is happening in the US economy: The administration is breaking the back of the job creators. Once again we’ve seen an unemployment rate drop due […]