Getting entrepreneurial in 2008
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InfoWorld - When I wrote my first InfoWorld article back in December 2001, I had absolutely no clue what I was talking about. Reading back over that masterpiece, "Dawn of the real-time enterprise," is scary. I didn't understand the technology, the acronyms, or how to filter out the inevitable vendor hype. I called friends to ask, what's J2EE? What's JMS? What's OLAP? And when they explained it, I pretended to understand, but still didn't.
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Blog: Money is pouring into clean tech start-ups, but recent reports examine longer-term issues.
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Be your own boss without inventing the business concept. Sounds easy--until you try it.
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Marchionne, entro ottobre previsioni per il 2008
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Blog: Money is pouring into clean tech start-ups but recent reports examine longer-term issues.
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More women are setting up their own businesses than ever before, according to data published yesterday. Research by Barclays found that entrepreneurial activity among women in the UK has grown by 28% since 2000.
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Initial public offerings of stock are starting to look like an attractive exit strategy for startups, after a lull of three years. In an echo of the dot-com bubble, some companies are even going public before becoming profitable.
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Google's 1.7 billion initial public offering in August gave entrepreneurs reason to rub the sleepy dust out of their eyes. All year the new-issues market had been slowly awakening. Through the end of October U.S. companies raised &#36;29 billion in initial stock sales, almost twice the total raised in all of 2003.
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Tips from five young entrepreneurs who made fortunes fast.
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A company is set up to encourage students to be entrepreneurs when they leave university.
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Not everyone has suffered from the current housing slump. Exceptions include entrepreneurs with deep experience in real estate and those who have carved out a special niche.
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Despite financial market volatility, U.S. technology companies had a strong 2007. The rising cost of energy, fears of recession, and forecasts of a slowdown in IT spending, however, point to a rocky 2008.
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It's the start of a new year, so think ahead, if you will, to Dec. 31, 2008. What are your hopes for the next 12 months? Maybe you want to be richer or slimmer, get married or get divorced, become gainfully employed or be thankfully retired.
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Pursuing oneâs passion for a living may involve taking a circuitous, costly and time-consuming route, but for some entrepreneurs, it is worth the journey.
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A non-magical approach to building wealth.
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The start-up's futuristic ultracapacitor--a device that holds electricity and functions somewhat like a battery--may not hit the market until 2008.
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Yes, they could ruin your year in 2008. Make sure they don't.