Financial Eyes & Ears

Fortune 100 companies like General Electric and AT&T can spend in excess of $1 billion a year on employee training programs. As a small- to mid-sized business, you most certainly don’t have that kind of budget but investment in your employee’s ongoing training and development shouldn’t be any less important. “The statistics show that the [...]

Today, Pandigital announced it will begin shipping the Pandigital Novel 7” Color Multimedia eReader. The touchscreen device, which runs on the Android operating system, has built-in WiFi and access to the Barnes & Noble eBookstore. You can also use it to surf the Web, check e-mail, watch movies, and listen to music. The eReader weighs [...]

Each day, Inc.’s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here’s what we found today: Web entrepreneurs get a hip new makeover. Making Internet entrepreneurs – a group not exactly known for their fashion savvy – look cool is no small challenge. Today’s New York Times has the story [...]

Carrot – Home – Cooking – Fruit and Vegetable – Philip Markoff

This was originally published in my blog and generated a lot of activity. The asset class known as venture capital has been swirling around the drain since the dot-com bubble burst ten years ago. Like all forms of private equity the nature of these funds require decade long investment horizons and their investors demand opacity. [...]

From cavorting in the company’s factory in his underwear to calling his models “sluts,” American Apparel CEO Dov Charney has been a whiz at making headlines – but that talent is unlikely to save his company. The bright, breezy (and slightly sleazy) clothing brand could go bankrupt shortly, according to a company press release. The [...]

Each day, Inc.’s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here’s what we found today: A closer look at failing businesses. Call it bad news in a pretty package. The folks at Business Pundit have put together a handy infographic detailing the various aspects of where and why businesses [...]