I heard on NPR once (okay, maybe it was one of those radio pop psychiatrists, but let’s say it was NPR), that when faced with an empty public restroom with multiple stalls, people will almost always bypass the first stall. Their reasoning? They assume that everyone chooses the first stall and therefore it will be [...]
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Posted by: Jennifer Escalona, December 31, 2009
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The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) just released their 2008 annual report on the state of entrepreneurship in the United States, with interesting results. Perhaps due to the economic crisis, the instance of entrepreneurship activity (high early-stage entrepreneurship prevalence rates, high venture capital investment and significantly higher levels of high-expectation entrepreneurship), is up across the board, [...]
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Posted by: Jennifer Escalona, November 24, 2009
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People have built small businesses and sole-proprietorships around everything from baking cookies to hunting ghosts. But one class of small business owner, the freelancer, does things a little differently. While some small businesses are location sensitive, many freelancers are like guns for hire, roaming the world (usually via the internet, of course) and providing [...]
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Posted by: Jennifer Escalona, September 13, 2009
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If you are a small business owner or sole-proprietor who finds work via online job sites boards like Craigslist, chances are you have run into a scam or two in the normal course of bidding on jobs. Experience is generally the best teacher when it comes to avoiding online job scams, but below we [...]
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Posted by: Jennifer Escalona, September 10, 2009
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