Ok so 3 more posts today that I’ve dug up – I’m an information JUNKIE on this stuff lately. Give em a browse and let me know what ya reckon. They’re just from a few different sites I’ve been surfing lately that are generally good for information like this…

Visas for Foreign Entrepreneurs

"The incentive for entrepreneurs to bring their ideas to the US would be the prospect of becoming a resident of this country and the potential for a greater …   Read More…

Entrepreneurs present plans for promoting better business

Catskill Village President Vincent Seeley, who facilitated the meeting, said representatives of the groups should bring their ideas to Village Board …   Read More…

Fortune: UT top school for entrepreneurs

The course requires the students to pitch ideas to an outside panel of investors or face foregoing graduation for another semester. …   Read More…
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“Play by the rules. But be ferocious.”

Starting The Business

Like Fred Smith and the origins of FedEx, Philip Knight’s first ideas of what would become Nike Inc. came to him while he was at

school. While working on his master’s at Stanford, Knight – an accomplished runner during his undergraduate days at the University

of Oregon – wrote an essay that outlined a plan to overcome the monopoly Adidas had on the running shoe market. He thought the way

to realize this was to employ cheap Japanese labour to make a shoe both better and cheaper.

The plan was put into action shortly after graduating in 1962. Knight went to Japan to meet with the executives of Onitsuka Tiger

Co., a manufacturer of imitation Adidas runners, claiming to be the head of a company called Blue Ribbon Sports (which did not

exist, except in his mind). Knight convinced Tiger to export their shoes to the States though Blue Ribbon and had them send samples

so his associates could inspect them.

Knight paid for the samples with money from his father. He sent a few pairs to Bill Bowerman, Knight’s track coach from his days at

the University of Oregon, who became interested in the venture. Knight and Bowerman became partners and put $500 each into the

purchase of 200 pairs of Tigers. Blue Ribbon Sports was formed, and Knight began going to high school track and field events

selling the shoes from the trunk of his car.

Sales were at $3 million dollars when Knight chose to dissolve the partnership with Tiger in the early 1970s. Blue Ribbon began

producing its own line and began selling its Nike line (named after the Greek goddess of victory) in 1972. These first Nike shoes

were adorned with the now-internationally recognizable swoosh logo – which Knight had commissioned for $35 – and had the

traction-improving “waffle soles”, conceived of by Bowerman while watching his wife using a waffle iron.

Building An Empire

Blue Ribbon’s success (renamed Nike in 1978) throughout the 1970s and into the ’80s can largely be attributed to Knight’s marketing

strategy. He thought it best not to push his Nike shoes though advertising, but rather to let expert athletes endorse his product.

Fortune smiled on Knight as his partner Bill Bowerman became the coach of the American Olympic team and many of the best performers

on the team decided to shod their feet with Nikes. Of course, when the runners performed well, the shoes they wore were

highlighted. Steve Prefontaine, a brash and unconventional American record-holder, became the first spokesperson for Nike shoes.

After the tennis player John McEnroe hurt his ankle, he began wearing a Nike three-quarter-top shoe, and sales of that particular

brand jumped from 10,000 pairs to over 1 million. As Knight had hoped, celebrity athlete’s endorsements brought success to the

company. Knight also capitalized on a jogging craze, and through clever marketing persuaded the consumer that they should only be

wearing the best the best in the world.

The Air Jordans helped the company continue to thrive into the 1980s. In their first year, the shoe made more than $100 million.

Knight realized his initial goal of replacing Adidas as the number the one shoe manufacturer globally in 1986. By then, total sales

had surpassed $1 billion. However, by neglecting the growing interest in aerobics shoes, Nike would have to face a few

difficulties.

Through Problems and Controversy

Sales dropped 18% between 1986 and 1987 as Reebok’s trendy, stylish aerobics shoes came to be in high demand. Knight had to

acknowledge that the technical achievements of the Nike shoe would not satisfy those who placed appearance above performance. The

Nike Air was Knight’s response to Reebok. It revived sales and put Nike back in the number one spot in 1990.

Corporate Monster that it had become, Nike was the object of public outrage in 1990 when stories of teenagers killed for their

Nikes began floating around. It was believed that Nike was promoting their shoes too forcefully.

That same year Jesse Jackson attacked Nike for not having any African-Americans on its board or among its vice-presidents, despite

the fact that its customer base was in large part black. Jackson’s Nike boycott lasted until a black board member was appointed.

There has also been a controversy around whether Knight’s use of Asian factory workers as cheap labour s exploitative.

Through all of the bad press that has been foisted on Nike through these events, Nike shoes have continued to sell well. And in

1993, The Sporting News voted Knight “the most powerful man in sports” though he was neither a player nor a manager. Knight’s

marketing mastery is to be lauded and regarded as a major factor in his impressive successes.

Evan Carmichael is an entrepreneur and international speaker. His webpage is among the top 10 Internet sites globally for entrepreneurship and contains profiles of famous entrepreneurs, lessons learned from successful business owners, and expert opinions and analysis. He also runs Entrepreneur Mastermind Groups to give business owners important insights from their peers into managing and growing a small company. Learn more at http://www.evancarmichael.com.

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Hey Readers! I’ve been comin across some crazy stuff the past few days from a few different blogs around the web which I just had to share with you. Check em out below…

peHUB » Battery Ventures Closes Ninth Fund

BV IX will continue the investment strategy Battery has employed over its 25-year history, investing in driven entrepreneurs and high-potential businesses that are diversified along three dimensions: – Sector: Key investment sectors are …

social entrepreneurs fund

Firstport and Scotland Unltd are working together in Scotland to provide advice and funding opportunities for new start social entrepreneurs. Two main funds are available to individuals who have great ideas and the vision, passion, …

In Conversation with Frank Levinson, Small World Group …

We sat down with Frank Levinson, one of the partners in Small World Group and chat with him on several subjects, from how he started Small World Group to the type of entrepreneurs which the incubator will be interested to fund. …

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Wanting to start a business in an exotic tropical environment, either to supplement a part-time or full-time retirement, regardless of your age? Retirement is not a matter of age, it is a matter of money – having enough ongoing money coming in to give one the freedom of shedding a job. If this has been a hunger and passion of yours, having your own business, and especially a business located in Southeast Asia, then you are looking in the right place in the Philippines.

I have personally started six businesses in the Philippines over the past 20 years, and find it exciting each time. Over the years three of these businesses were sold or closed down, as I moved away from asset based businesses towards distribution based businesses, both online and offline.

I have operated some of these as a proprietor, but I found the preferable way to operate from a tax, security and foreign ownership standpoint is to operate with a corporation.

What are the main points to consider?

1. A foreigner cannot form a solely owned business without a heavy investment (for a corporation, you are looking at USD$200,000).

2. A foreigner can have up to 40% ownership in a corporation – minimum capital to start a corporation is only Pesos 5,000 (approximately USD $1,000).

3. So essentially the only way to be in business is to be married to a Filipina who holds ownership of the proprietorship, or form a corporation with a Filipina spouse with you owning 40% and she owning 60%.

4. Of course, you can always enter into a corporation with 40% ownership with a Filipina girlfriend or a Filipino friend – but consider the huge risk of having no control over your fellow majority stock owner(s).

5. Yet, depending on the purpose of the corporation (such as purchase of a real estate – land or house), it might still make sense, in that when the property is sold you would be entitled to your share of the proceeds.

6. There is one exception whereby you CAN become a 100% owner of a corporation and that is if the corporation is formed to purchase land, your sole other shareholder is your spouse, and she dies. Under this arrangement, as the heir to you deceased spouse, you are able to retain 100% ownership of the property.

Now, assuming that either (i) you are married to a Filipina, or (ii) the business will be a real estate investment, the question then becomes what should be the form of ownership. The options are:

1. Sole proprietorship – this is a business structure owned by you spouse who has full authority in her own name and owns all the assets. However, she also will owe and answer personally to all liabilities or suffer all losses, but enjoys all the profits. It is easy to form and simple to register with the government.

2. Partnership – this is a business structure owned by two or more partners. One with more than Pesos 3,000 capital has to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All the partners have unlimited personal liability for the affairs of the business. There is no benefit to you as a foreigner with this form of ownership by your spouse.

3. Corporation – this is my preferred form of ownership if the business is going to be anything larger than a small hobby type business. For a small business, you are best off just being in a sole proprietorship – due to the low cost and ease of formation, and its relative freedom from regulation by the government. However, for a business of any significance (a real estate ownership business, a franchise, a significant manufacturing or export business, etc), this is definitely the preferred form of ownership, and you as the foreigner can retain up to 40% ownership. Minimum paid up capital requirement is Pesos 5,000 and it is regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The shareholders/owners liability is simply limited to their amount of the share capital. There must be at least five (5) incorporators, each of which must hold at least one share. So what you do, for example, is issue 56 shares to your spouse, 4 shares to her relatives, and 40 shares to yourself.

Do you want more in depth information about starting a business in the Philippines? I have just completed my new book on “Retirement Living in the Philippines”, which covers many of the social and cultural values relating to relationships with Filipinos – an understanding of which is crucial to a successful business.

Download it at http://www.retirementlivinginthephilippines.com

Further, the author is soon to release a new book entitled “The Expat’s Complete Guild to Starting a Business in the Philippines”.

Will Irwin is a powerful entrepreneur and business and life coach. He has started many online and offline businesses both in the USA and in the Philippines, residing in both Hawaii and the Philippines

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IEEE Spectrum: Entrepreneurs Wanted, Or Why You Should Start a …

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Snaky Politicians Kill the New Hampshire Advantage – Scragged

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Business entrepreneur ideas for San Francisco Bay Area California?

I am trying to open a business in the bay area, but I am not sure what's suitable. I need something that's not here, so I can make a successful business, any ideas? Budget $50-100k

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The main focus of this article is to provide you with a list of DoFollow forums that you can participate and share information with. If you spend two to three hours a day browsing through DoFollow forums, write at least 10-15 posts in at least two DoFollow forums, you will start to see more traffic flow to your website. Here are the top three reasons why you should implement this:

1. It will generate FREE traffic to your website. If forum members see value in your information, they will click on your link to find out more.

2. Helps create a backlink to your website, which will increase your search engine ranking and site popularity much quicker.

3. You contribute to others and learn from experts within your industry.

Let me address what DoFollow means. Otherwise if you already understand the concept, scroll down to the list below and take action today by contributing your resources to others that will drive more traffic to your website.

What Is DoFollow?

dofollow The easiest way to understand what DoFollow is, I will explain what NoFollow is first. NoFollow was an attribute created in 2005 to help bloggers and webmasters manage comments and control the number of inserted links. It was to stop spammers placing unwanted links on blog posts. By adding the Nofollow attribute automatically to your links it tells search engines to not follow them, thus stopping spam.

Now, DoFollow is the opposite of NoFollow, isn’t that simple? The main difference is, DoFollow is only available on limited websites restricting comments and links that are relevant to the topic. This stops spamming and is beneficial to websites who are actually contributing to the community. By submitting comments on DoFollow blogs or websites you get free quality backlinks.

“DoFollow links are links which help you improve your search engine ranking results.”

List of DoFollow Forums

1. 5Star Affiliate Forum – An affiliate marketing forum

2. Abestweb – An affiliate marketing forum for both beginner and experienced affiliates

3. Abundance – A forum that allows you to post advertisements for free

4. Blogger Talk – A forum for bloggers

5. Blog Mastermind Forum – An excellent forum with like minded bloggers who share strategies on how to make money with blogs

6. Business Forum – Business related topics discussed in this forum

7. Capital Theory – An online money making forum

8. Clickbank Success – A forum dedicated to people making money from Clickbank

9. Digitalppoint – A large forum about internet marketing and search engine (over 10 million members)

10. Dreamteam Money Forum – One of the hottest money making forums

11. Entrepreneur Forum – A forum started up by Evan Carmichael about entrepreneurship

12. Ewealth.com – Internet marketing and webmaster forum

13. Free Advertising Forum – Unlimited advertising posting

14. SEOForum – Dedicated for SEO discussions

15. Small Business Forum – A business forum for small entrepreneurs and online moneymakers

16. Startups – A business start-up and innovation forum

17. Warrior Forum – One of the most helpful and highly recommended forum to discuss business on. People are always ready to help and assist with your enquiries

18. Work-at-Home Moms – An Internet marketing message boards for mums

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Why Are Joint Ventures The Hottest Trend In Business History: 3 Unspoken Reasons

Joint ventures are the hottest business trend right now and will be well into the future. In fact Common Wealth Alliance says “25% of ALL Revenue, more than $40 Trillion comes from Joint Ventures. Isn’t it about time your company learned how to use a joint venture strategy. Shouldn’t your company be benefiting from it now?

Hands down, joint ventures are the fastest way to grow your business, find more customers, gain exposure and launch your product or service. You can cut out advertising expenses and save thousands of dollars while sharing risk with a JV partner.

Thomson Financial said, “This may be the most powerful trend in the history of business in the America’s and fast becoming world-wide!” besides what I have told you so far, why are joint venture so hot right now?

Here are 3 unspoken reasons why JV’s are dominating the business front and have become the standard practice of business.

JV’s don’t require a banks help, credit, approval or loan to produce or launch a product.

If you understand the JV protocol and have a place you can go to create alliances then you can launch your business or product without the banks money or credit. Entrepreneurs are quickly learning how to open and conduct business by learning to cooperate with each other. Big corporations to small startups are combining their skills talents and credibility to implement usable products and services totally bypassing the need for a bank. This creates a stronger company bases because companies begin and grow being debt free and saving on what would have been interest payments. Learning to work together these strategic alliances are helping entrepreneurs all around the world in emerging markets begin to develop wealth and global goodwill.

Entrepreneurs are learning to work together

There is a new economy growing where it is understood that working together vs. competing against each other is how business can become a win/win around the world. This abundant thinking style of entrepreneurship has taken over the business forefront and is where our current business leadership is going. Entrepreneurs, CEO’s Executives, and Business owners of all kinds from home based to fortune 500 are starting to come together
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and meet to discuss what possibilities can be created. Places such as the Private Joint Venture Club are becoming so popular because CEO’s and Entrepreneurs don’t want to spend the time hunting for a joint venture when they can just create one right now. The private JV club is growing fast as more and more entrepreneurs find a home where they can conduct the business of creating a joint venture to make money now vs. using Social networking to hunt and sift through thousands and thousand of companies hoping to find one entrepreneur whose product is compatible to create a JV with.

Elegance and Class have comeback to the business environment:

With abundant thinking entrepreneurs learning to work together to grow their businesses together so everyone wins, a new mindset and business acumen has arisen. You build friendships and alliances that last many, many years. With joint venture clubs business has become fun again. You are working with friends and colleagues who want to see your business grow and you will also want to see how their business is growing. Joint ventures have become a thriving business model that is the standard for doing business. It a new mindset, a new skill set and a global business innovation that, when you implement it, will bring you a success like no other and a life style of friends, colleagues and an environment of class. I would invite you to come join the fun.

By: Vickie Jimenez

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Vickie Jimenez is the Author of “Champagne Thoughts and Caviar Power the Science of Results Oriented Thinking.” She is personal and business development expert with a joint venture background with 20 years in the industry. She has spoken nationally and internationally. Vickie’s Mission is to educate and inspire people to achieve maximum results by empowering them with a strong state of self command. To learn more Visit successsystemsnow.com or privatejvclub.info

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Back with more news for you today. It’s amazing how much good information there is on this stuff out there if you know where to look. Three in particular that I found really valuable were…

Visas for Foreign Entrepreneurs

Peter Tegelaar and Coen Stevens sound like just the sort of entrepreneurs the US economy could use right now. …   Read More…

NKY event to help new entrepreneurs get going

A new event at Northern Kentucky University aims to help entrepreneurs jump-start their startups. The Start-Up Slam is a new effort by the Kentucky Science …   Read More…

Fortune: UT top school for entrepreneurs

Wellesley, Mass.-based Babson College topped the list. The school asks every first-year student to start a business with the goal of turning a profit on a …   Read More…
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We see multimedia pirates everyday trading mp3s and movies over the internet. Different software, from antiviruses to operating systems, can already be downloaded over the internet. Wikipedia is giving out information for free. Why should entrepreneurship information be any different? In fact, entrepreneurship training can be freely accessible online. Just go and run a quick search in your favorite search engine and soon you are off to mastering the entrepreneurship techniques.

It is best to start with the determining which sites will most probably offer really free trainings. Sites ending with .com rarely offer free things since these websites are commercial enterprises. Myownbusiness.org is one of those websites which offer free entrepreneur training courses online.

In addition, there are significant entrepreneur training on line in the form of websites dedicated to the needs of entrepreneurs and business people. These may not be true-blue websites offering training (whether paid or not). It is simply a compilation of business tricks that is deemed useful for an entrepreneur’s ventures. As we all know, not all successful entrepreneurs came out of the best business schools. The least an entrepreneur must have is common sense and some prior guidance on what to do. And the rest, so they say, is history.

So do not underestimate the power of free sites offering training. And neither underestimate the power of websites such as Wikipedia which provides a wealth of information about various topics. Despite that high unreliability factor of Wikipedia, there are still ways to verify the information, right? So jumpstart your free entrepreneur training course now.

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