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I started at home opportunities back in 2001, possible to find jobs. This is a time-consuming process, but in retrospect, I give myself back, when I cash a check every month from my home-based business the same. The purpose of this article is to help others, also make a wish with less time and energy to pay more than my own choice.Running for many years "bricks and mortar" type business, I did

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Said I was crazy, but the social ideas, willing to side or responsibility for the acts of another State, fascinated me. Of course, this is not only we are willing to do so, but trying to find out when we are willing to do so. Today, when my colleagues in a business organization in teaching, I discussed the recent New Jersey case, a "rogue" partner in law firm committed malpractice and stole

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Everyone seems to be "social entrepreneurs to talk about" (including myself, now). The word has existed for years, but it is still new enough that we feel the need to explain what this means. Different from the majority of people responsible for governing the community's social entrepreneurship, although the two are closely related. The following is from a recent article published by the Aspen

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Last year, when I first started teaching contract, I signed a listserv was established, its purpose is to discuss contract law. I was a corporate law similar to the mass function, but the contract level of activity is much higher. Not only that, but the professors spent a lot of time analyzing (or) its first year law students constructed a hypothetical distortions. In contrast, mass function is

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On the Internet in any one home-based business will soon be recognized as a means to attract potential customers to search engine optimization importance.Since its establishment in 1998 Google has been using the search engine's popularity has risen sharply. Nielsen NetRatings reports that about 114.5 million Americans, or up to 39 percent of the U.S. population, currently used search engine.By

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Branded Web sites, like amazon.com are household names, and with the audience had implicit trust. However, the vast majority of sites are not well known, was discovered and as a search engine search results to visit. In such cases, visitors may arrive for the first time and people tend to determine the nature of fear and suspicion of the unknown site.If someone shopping for a specific project the

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When you start a new family business, no one knows who you are, is the greatest challenge, you will encounter is how to attract a new business.If it is not in your community or market, people, you know who need your product or business service, you may not start your home-based business started. However, once you talk to your own who knows who needs your product or service, then your next task is

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I suppose if I had thought about it for a few seconds, I would have concluded that the desire for profit played some role in the invention of the printing press. On the other hand, my impoverished image of 15th Century Europe normally does not include much space for entrepreneurs. Then tonight, I stumbled across this passage in Alister McGrath's interesting history of the translation of the King

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Inspired by this article http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/showcase/chi-0306120068jun12.story The 50 Best Magazines of 2003, I started thinking about the best business magazines. Here is my Top 3: Fortune, Business Week, and Business 2.0. Fast Company deserves honorable mention. The Economist is also a great read, though it would be too limiting to call it a "business magazine." I wish The Red

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Warren Buffet is offering to have lunch with the highest bidder on eBay, with the proceeds going to the Glide Foundation, a San Francisco non profit serving the poor, hungry and homeless. (And, of course, Glide has its own Web site.) According to the New York Times, Buffet has done this twice before, and the lunches sold for $25,000 and $32,000, respectively. (As of this writing, the bidding on

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The Washington Post is reporting on the struggles to build a Dracula theme park in Romania. This project has been in the works for some time and has been haunted (sorry, couldn't resist) by several controversies, but the government is behind the project. The big obstacle appears to be lack of interest from investors: The planned location in Snagov, an upscale lake resort near Bucharest, is

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During an otherwise tedious faculty meeting today, one of our most popular and entertaining professors, John Kidwell, analogized law to chicken. Every law school serves chicken, he said, but they use different seasonings. (Our preferences at Wisconsin run in the direction of the "law-in-action approach.") This reminded me of a well-known and oft-cited law review article by my former dean, Jim

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I am an unabashed fan of the United States of America. The world has never seen a startup quite like this one, and several of the founders (particularly Franklin and Jefferson) belong in the Entrepreneurs Hall of Fame. So, Happy Birthday, America! From your favorite entrepreneurship blog ...

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VH1 has a very entertaining show called I Love the 80s. Watching it makes me feel very old. In 1989, I worked as a summer associate in the Wilmington office of Skadden Arps, and the M&A boom was in full swing. It was an amazing experience. It seemed that every day brought a new deal or a new decision from the Delaware courts. I later signed on as a real associate, and that was not so amazing. (

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Even casual observers of the biotech industry know about Amgen and Genentech, but how many have heard of Gilead? (As in "balm of Gilead"?) Get to know them. The FDA just approved Gilead's new anti-AIDS drug, Emtriva. That makes three FDA approvals in the past two years, which is lightening speed.

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All this talk about dot-coms has put me in the mood to reminisce ... In the middle of the dot-com bubble, I was approached by the folks at TheLaw.com to become one of their academic columnists. (I was recommended by my good friend, Lydia Loren, who also took the leap and became a columnist.) After signing the "consulting agreement" and receiving my grant of stock options, I wrote one column and

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Just after I made a negative comment about dot-coms (in my last post), The Wall Street Journal reported that some old friends -- Akamai, WebMD, and Monster -- are making a comeback. The fuel powering the comback? All of these dot-coms are attracting more traditional companies as customers. In the case of Monster, those traditional companies are paying for advertising, which should make any

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Yesterday I wrote that I was skeptical about the possibility of Google prying open the IPO market. What I didn't explain was my reasoning: simply put, Google strikes me as a company that will not lead a new IPO boom, but will follow on the heels of other successful IPOs. (This is based on my "reading" of Eric Schmidt plus a smidgen of inside information.) I didn't realize that another

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Yesterday, I found this blog on Google! What an amazing search engine! Although I am not an early adopter of most technology, I was an early convert to Google and I remain an avid fan. Lately, I have been watching Google for another reason: wondering when the firm is going to take the IPO leap. Cnet reported on Sunday that Sergey Brin was pooh-poohing the idea at the PC Forum in Scottsdale. He

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The numbers do not show a revival of venture capital investment ... yet. Investments in the second quarter of 2003 reached their lowest level in five years, and the IPO market continues to disappoint. But there is some reason for optimism. Gains in the stock market and the filing of a registration statement by Crystal Decisions have spawned hope of an IPO revival. The Wall Street Journal recently

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So what is it about cycling and newspapers? After writing that last post, it occurred to me that one of the most popular cycling events in the U.S. -- the RAGBRAI -- is sponsored by the The Des Moines Register. Once my children are old enough to ride along, we are going to make that ride. When I read a story about the RAGBRAI recently, it showed pictures of Iowans on their porches watching the

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Here is a thought prompted by my preparation for the Directors' Summit (see immediately below): if entrepreneurial firms have different strategic needs from other companies, should their corporate governance system also be different? Of course, privately held firms will necessarily be different from firms whose shares are publicly traded, but is corporate governance a "one size fits all" affair

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Since last fall, I have been at the University of Wisconsin, working with a group called the Initiative for Studies in Technology Entrepreneurship (INSITE). They have quickly become some of my favorite people, and I am learning a lot about entrepreneurship. Last week, Anne Miner, Mason Carpenter, and I met with representatives of the State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB) to discuss their

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Randall Kennedy appeared yesterday on what is quickly becoming my favorite radio talk show, On Point. The topic tonight was Walter Isaacson's new book, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life. Kennedy wanted to talk about Franklin's participation in the slave trade, but the guest host pressed Kennedy on another topic. Here is my rough transcription of the broadcast: Host: Do you see something in Ben

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Jim Rome is certainly one of the funniest and insightful sports commentators around. His take yesterday on the jump to the Atlantic Coast Conference by the University of Miami and Virginia Tech: the college presidents are "corporate raiders and robber barons." No doubt! All of this revolves around football, which at most schools is the only profitable sport. Here at the University of Wisconsin,

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Pardon me if I do not share the enthusiasm of institutional investors over their latest victory in the SEC. On the last day of June, the SEC issued an order approving proposals by the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq that would require a shareholder vote to approve all equity compensation plans. Another Enron-era reform, these rules transfer more power over corporate policy from directors to

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Two years ago, my entire family spent nine weeks in the summer traveling around central and eastern Europe. We become hooked on the tour, and all of us are now huge Lance Armstrong fans. Last year, I was able to teach in Paris during July, and the whole family was there for a trip to Normandy, where we watched one of the stages. Of course, you see much more on television than in person, but the

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In another piece from the NYT, we see some handwringing by eBay sellers over lower margins. But eBay remains the best idea to emerge from the Internet boom. For a fun read about how eBay became a phenomenon, take a look at The Perfect Store: Inside eBay, by Adam Cohen. While the author has been criticized for becoming to attached to his subject, this lapse is understandable. EBay is simply hard

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David Brooks has an interesting piece in the New York Times, suggesting that Abraham Lincoln might become the "dominant image of business success" in the United States. At first, I thought Brooks was trying to be funny, but he has a very nice point. He writes, "Success, for most Americans, really is built upon the slow, steady, boring accumulation of accomplishments and money. Most successful

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I recently discovered Venture Blog: A Random Walk Down Sand Hill Road, which is maintained by three venture capitalists with August Capital. (Gee, I guess VCs aren't as busy as they were in the late 1990s?) It is a smart-looking site with good insights on the world of Silicon Valley startups. A recent post by Andrew caught my eye. He contends that Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) will help startups by "

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You may be wondering why I have hostile takeovers on the brain today. Well, it's grading time at the law school, and I asked my students a question about the most recent decision of the Delaware Supreme Court in Omnicare v. NCS Healthcare, where the Court held that deal protections devices were subject to "intermediate scrutiny" under the Unocal standard. More specifically, the Court examined

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What do hostile takeovers have to do with entrepreneurship? In 1988 Fred Friendly did a series of videos, which he called "Ethics in America." One of those videos is the best television piece on hostile takeovers ever done, in my view. Called "Anatomy of a Hostile Takeover," the video has a panel of high-profile participants -- including Warren Buffett, T. Boone Pickens, Rudy Giuliani, and Joe

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Corporate law professors are fascinated by hostile takeovers. My friend and co-author, does an annual survey for the Corporate Practice Commentator to find the best corporate and securities law articles. In the most recent survey, there were 11 articles in the Top 10, and six of them focused on hostile takeovers -- including the article that Bob and I wrote entitled "Toward a New Theory of the

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In Andy Serwer's recent article about Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, he writes: "I say only three types of people claim they don't like Krispy Kremes: nutritionists (your basic glazed has 200 calories and 12 grams of fat), Dunkin' Donuts franchisees, and compulsive liars." Hard to gainsay that. This is a great story of the power of marketing. The founder of Krispy Kreme, Vernon Rudolph, bought the

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Last night I upgraded my Dish satellite service so I can get the Outdoor Life Network, home to Tour de France coverage in the U.S. The first thing I did was watch a show on the history of the Tour and learned that it was started by a newspaper (L'Auto) as a means to promote its coverage of the popular sport of cycling. Apparently, L'Auto was on the short end of a lawsuit, which prohibited the

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OK, I will admit to the double entendre -- and this is certainly a topic that invites self-conscious humor from those of us who are squeamish (or perhaps "horrified" would be a better description) about the prospect of baring ourselves publicly -- but some people are serious about growth prospects of nudism, also called "naturism." The topic has received lots of exposure (sorry) recently because

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* A lot has been written about Grutter v. Bollinger, the Supreme Court's decisions in the Michigan affirmative action cases, but Stanford Law School professor Marcus Cole has penned a passionate and personal indictment of affirmative action. Among other things, Cole writes: [T]o insinuate that my life is nothing more than an Affirmative Action storyline is the insult that I endure year in, year

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Here is another story that reminds me that my fascination with entrepreneurs is like The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. (If you have never read this short story, do it now.) The aircar -- also known as a Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) aircraft -- is getting some serious attention. Moller International is planning to have its version commercial available within a few years. They even have video

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One thing I have noticed in my brief time as a blog afficionado: the best blogs are written by people who have more ideas than time (or energy) will permit them to develop. The excess slops over onto the blog, and that can be highly entertaining, as well as informative. Whether this bussiness blog fits that mold, time will tell. But in an attempt to keep track of such ideas, I am hereby

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