Publicity stunts are on my mind this week. This past Sunday night on the premiere of Mad Men, Peggy suggests paying women to fight over a ham, and scores press coverage for her client. I arrived in Manhattan on Monday…

More numbers regarding small businesses and loans in the UK are out, and they're not exactly encouraging.  Month-over-month, the amount of money that was distributed did increase between May and July, but otherwise, things are looking kind of bad.

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In sifting through small-business bankruptcy data, it wasn’t surprising to see that the hardest hit areas in terms of sheer numbers are in California. After all, not only is it our most populous state, but it was also ground zero…

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Have you been considering hiring some new employees? Has it been awhile since you added staff? If so, then let us offer you a refresher course on how to manage the process. The following guide brings together tools you can…

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Cashing in on clutter. Today's Wall Street Journal tells the story of Matt Paxton, founder of Clutter Cleaner,…

Earlier this summer, I endorsed the prediction that we'd see sub $100 eReaders from the likes of Amazon, etc. by the end of the year. Maybe. Welll, you can now forget that "maybe" as far as I'm concerned. Amazon announced…

At Y Combinator's AngelConf yesterday, Michael Arrington bemoaned the proliferation of, as he called them, "dipshit companies." I suppose by this he meant companies that offer unassuming products and services--and entrepreneurs whose chief ambition is to…