Vestaron makes an eco-friendly pesticide derived from spider venom. Bagaveev uses 3-D printers to make rocket engines for nanosatellites. Transatomic Power is developing a next-generation reactor that runs on nuclear waste. They all have one thing in common: money from Silicon Valley venture capitalists. After years of shying away from science, engineering and clean-technology start-ups,…
Has your retail business been around for a long time? Whether you’ve been in business 10 or 20 years, or whether you’re helming a family-owned business that’s been around for generations, these days there’s lots of value in marketing your history.Consumers are showing new interest in longtime businesses and brands for several reasons: With the…
You met all the requirements for the job, but the employer still didn’t hire you. It sucks. Stop obsessing over why this happened. Instead, check out this article for a list of possible reasons and work on improving your interviewing skills so you’ll make a better impression next time. Your resume was good enough land…
Beware of cards bearing gifts If you’ve been receiving a flood of credit-card offers, you aren’t alone, said Kara McGuire at the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Credit experts say card offers “are hitting the mailbox at rates not seen in a long while.” Since fewer Americans carry a credit-card balance these days, lenders are trying to…
The Acer Iconia One 7 is a nice tablet for the user on a budget. At a manufacturer’s suggested retail price of $129.99, it is a very affordable if average tool running on the Android 4.2 Jelly Bean operating system. You will be able to update that to Android 4.4, also known as KitKat, in…
Most small business owners can identify with the challenges of getting financing for their business or funding for a new product. There’s no short, easy road to funding, most of the time, but these small business funding resources can help. Kabbage Kabbage has to be the most unique small business funding source found recently. They…
Australia’s central bank said investors are starting to distort the nation’s housing market and is discussing possible measures with other regulators to strengthen lending practices. “The composition of housing and mortgage markets is becoming unbalanced, with new lending to investors being out of proportion to rental housing’s share of the housing stock,” the Reserve Bank…
As entrepreneur Marc Andreessen famously wrote in The Wall Street Journal a few years ago, “Software is eating the world.” Traditional businesses are being disrupted and everyone is talking about starting a new software-based business. Clearly an opportunity is out there, but founders with prior software experience have an advantage. For nontechnical founders with business…
(Reuters) – For Americans looking to retire abroad, deciding where to live can be a challenge. But Lynne and Tim Martin took that question off the table by deciding to retire everywhere and anywhere. In 2011 the couple opted for what might be called extreme retirement abroad: They sold their Paso Robles, California, home, jettisoned…
Some customers are easy to deal with. Others not so much. Members of our community have had to deal with both and so have some valuable insights abut handling the tough ones. In this week’s Community News and Information Roundup, you can get some advice on how to deal with that troublesome customer. But you’ll…
