Entries from BizBox Blog on Slate tagged with 'great rearranging'
Big Opportunity in The Big Easy
Yesterday, the New York Times trained its eye on one of our favorite themes: the central role that entrepreneurs and the small companies they build will likely play in the revitalization of the national economy, and those of particularly devastated...
Find Yourself A City To Live In
Inc. has a list of the top ten U.S. metropolitan areas for entrepreneurs, based mostly on how many companies on the Inc. 500 list each plays host to. We don't want to divulge the whole thing; suffice to say that...
The Black Businesses of New Orleans
Earlier this month, we predicted that if New Orleans is going to pull itself back up to something like what it used to be before the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, entrepreneurs were going to play a crucial role. We still...
As Jobs Exit, Companies Enter
Here's one way to cure the unemployment blues: create your own job, in effect, by starting your own business! The Sunday New York Times ran a prominent story on the subject. Flagging the same Kauffman Foundation study that we did...
Oh Give Me A Home Where Buffalo...Is
We've been everywhere, man. Youngstown, Ohio, where the local Business Incubator means to attract cutting-edge start-ups to the beleagured Rust Belt city; Detroit, which, even as its main industry faces decline, hopes to build its post-industrial industry (oh, and also...
The Long(er) Road To Green
Whether or not green businesses are themselves in growth industries, media-induced green-business triumphalism most certainly is. And we have not at all been immune to the allure of this great story--save the environment! cash in on the stimulus! make...
Feelin' Good
We've been awfully dour over the past several days of blogging--consumer spending problems; CIT circling the drain; health insurers' "purging"--and even our post earlier today on being "grateful" is really more of a bittersweet sort of thing. So let's end...
Guess Who's Building The Electric Car?
Who revived the electric car? According to The Washington Post, the answer may turn out to be a series of small entrepreneurial efforts, including Coda Automotive and Bright Automotive, that "are tapping into the expertise of others in bids to...
What The Government Can Do
A step forward and a step back: New York City is sending mixed messages when it comes to the small restaurants that form such a crucial part of the city's economy and social fabric, in ways that reveal how a...
Opportunity in The Big Easy
In the past, we've spoken earnestly about the potential for scrappy, low-cost entrepreneurs to revitalize urban areas that have been economically decimated by years and decades of deindustrialization, whether it's Detroit or Youngstown, or even New York's financial industry, decimated...
Do Small Businesses Create Jobs?
In the course of a column about employer health-insurance mandates--we promise, we will refer to this in a future post--the WaPo's business columnist Steve Pearlstein refers to the notion that small businesses are responsible for the majority of job growth...
Census: More Single-Person Businesses
You're The Boss points to the National Federation of Independent Business's most recent monthly numbers on the percentage of entrepreneurs who believe that the next three months are a "Good Time to Expand". Recently, the figure has risen. However, the...
Detroit's New (Post-)Industry
Via Bloomberg comes the news that General Electric is establishing a big new research center in the Detroit suburbs. The Advanced Manufacturing and Software Technology Center will investigate potential innovations in the areas of health-care, software, and even wind...
Playing To The Recession's Strengths
When we advise you to take advantage of the recession, and play to its "strengths," as it were, we should note that it's not really as though you have a choice. You don't live in a world where the economy...
Falling Rent Leads To More Restaurants
The Age of the Entrepreneur continues apace. We are big believers in the theory that one of the recession's effects has been to encourage entrepreneurship. You have laid-off workers who are actually talented. You have lower opportunity costs for those...
As Economy Falls, Entrepreneurship Rises
Independent Street notes that, as the economy began to tank and then tanked in earnest in 2008, entrepreneurial activity actually grew. Breaking down the data, the blog notes that it "suggests that more people are turning to entrepreneurship out of...
Feed Subscription
If you use an RSS reader, you can subscribe to a feed of all future entries tagged 'great rearranging'. [What is this?]
