YOU + TRUCK: Six Businesses You Can Start With A Truck
New Book Makes Starting a Business a Movable Feat San Francisco, CA—July 23, 2009—It’s hard to ignore the growing mobile trend—mobile restaurants, mobile pet groomers, mobile (fill in the blank). The trend is a response to reduced access to credit and lower consumer spending. Would-be entrepreneurs and existing business owners are seeking new ways to [...]
Hackers on the Hill
Today, President Obama is set to announce more details of the new Cybersecurity Chief position, also referred to as the “cyber czar”. The new role will report to both the National Security Council and the National Economic Council, and will be responsible for making government computer networks that store taxpayer, employee and security information, and [...]
Opportunity Alert: Grantwriting is Sexy Again
AIG and the other hot messes surrounding the Stimulus Plan have given us plenty to be angry about. But, regardless of what you think about how the Stimulus has been handled, you can’t deny the need for government intervention in the form of cash injections into the economy. Clearly, there must be a little more [...]
Opportunity Alert: The New Gold Rush
On January 24, 1848, James Marshall’s discovery of gold near the American and Sacramento rivers in California kicked off the great Gold Rush. Inspired by Marshall’s fortune, thousands of miners and prospectors packed up and headed west in search of fortunes of their own. A few became suddenly, fabulously wealthy; many others were swindled, unlucky [...]
Opportunity Alert: Clunkers Rev Up Revenue
Given a choice between a brand new Beamer and a 2001 Chevy whatever I’m sure we’d all be in line for a Beamer. Well, maybe. Believe it or not, I’m going to give you one reason to choose a 2001 Chevy, or just about any old clunker you can think of, over a sexy, new [...]
Get Paid $150k to Snorkel and Blog
Imagine getting paid $150,000 to snorkel, whale watch, lounge around in a luxury oceanfront villa on a beautiful island, and blog all about it. That’s exactly what Australia’s Tourism Queensland wants to do–pay you to hang out on Hamilton Island in Australia for six months, all expenses paid, as its caretaker and blogger-in-residence (the island’s [...]
Careersthatdontsuck.com’s 2009 Career Predictions #3
REMOTE CONTROL What you will not see in 2009 is businesses rushing to acquire more real estate or take back old office space. Even if they do manage to add new jobs or bring back laid off workers, many of those newly hired workers will not find themselves in Dilbert’s digs (cubicles, that is). Instead, [...]
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