Archive for November, 2008
Thursday, November 13th, 2008
New Immigration Rule States New Duties for Employers
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced tougher regulations late last month regarding immigration and the duties of employers. According to the new rule, employers have 90 days to resolve a “no-match” letter, which notifies an employer that there is a discrepancy with an employee’s legal working status. If they don’t do so within […]
No Comments » - Posted in Business and Politics, Small Business by Megan Dorn
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
Complete List of Q3 2008 Web, Internet and Tech Acquisitions
Our big news in acquisitions this past quarter comes straight from our own office. PartnerUp was acquired by Deluxe Corporation back in July, so we’re pretty excited to be able to add our own name to the Q3 list.
As for the rest of the M&A activity this past quarter, things have been cooling down. While […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Acquisitions by Dane Fox
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
Credit Card Fees Too Much for Some Merchants
Credit card fees are a huge pain for small business owners. Every time customers run a debit or credit card a percentage of their purchase goes directly to the banks.
For some time now small businesses have disregarded the fees, which also impact consumer prices, as a necessary annoyance. As more and more of them are […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Business and Politics, Small Business by Megan Dorn
Monday, November 10th, 2008
Small Business Tip of the Week
Not taking the time to properly defend your network against hackers, spammers and viruses will jeopardize the security of your company’s vital information and data, not to mention really tick you off. Unfortunately no security software is perfect. They’re all likely to have glitches here and there because new threats are always emerging. That’s why […]
No Comments » - Posted in Technology, Small Business by Megan Dorn
Friday, November 7th, 2008
Street Begging as a Business? Huh?
I used to assume that all street beggars were down-on-their-luck homeless people stuck in unfortunate situations and forced to panhandle for survival. That, however, is not always the case. In fact, the truly needy are starting to become overshadowed by “imposters” at an alarming rate.
For this new wave of street beggars in disguise, panhandling is […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Entrepreneurship, Random thoughts by Megan Dorn
Thursday, November 6th, 2008
Going back to Get Your MBA: Necessary or Not?
Tough economic times are usually thought of as a great time for recent grads and displaced professionals to head back to school and get some more education. For a lot of people, that means getting an MBA. The problem with this is that shelling out big bucks for a master’s of business administration degree doesn’t […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Random thoughts, Small Business by Megan Dorn
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Microsoft’s BizSpark Offers Free Tools to Startups
Through its new BizSpark program, Microsoft is enticing startups to build their businesses with Microsoft’s full-featured development tools—for free. Basically the BizSpark program goes like this:
To be eligible a startup must meet three requirements. It must be a private company, make less than $1 million in annual revenue and be less than three years old.
If […]
No Comments » - Posted in Entrepreneurship, Technology, Starting Up by Megan Dorn
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
Collegiate Characteristics of the Self-Employed
I read a paper recently by Chad Moutray of the Small Business Administration. In the paper he explores the relationship between self-employment and college education. Some of the findings are pretty interesting
The self-employed tend to:
major in the social sciences rather than business, management, education, engineering, math or science
have lower grade point averages than wage earners
have […]
