How do small towns react when outsiders move in and start development? It’s not always pretty. Here is one example, Kirksville, Missouri, profiled in the Kansas City Star. The outsider in this case is Big Louie Keen, owner of a “sprawling strip club complex along Interstate 44,” about 200 miles to the south of Kirksville. […]
Archives for May 2006
What Your Small Business Can Learn From Jelly Beans
One of our favorites at the SBDC is Darrell Zahorsky athttp://sbinformation.about.com/ and given that I love jelly beans this one really interested me! What Your Small Business Can Learn From Jelly BeansAn unusual experiment with Six Kinds of Jelly Beans at Wharton School University of Pennsylvania found that the more variety a consumer thinks they […]
Do small business startup grants exist?
No. They don’t. Not in the US. Wayne Hogue writing in the The Shreveport Times takes on this myth: Attention! There is no such thing as a grant to start a for-profit business. Business startup grants are an urban legend; a myth that just will not die. I’m talking about grants (i.e. free money, not […]
Tool: Check your internet security
How secure is your computer on the internet? How do you know? Check and make sure at Shields UP! It was easy to do. I just followed the instructions, and clicked on the appropriate buttons. It tested my firewall, to make sure that a hacker could not gain control of my machine remotely. Note that […]