Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook from his Harvard dormitory, but after the social networking website exploded in popularity, he promptly quit school and became a full-time entrepreneur.
In these turbulent economic times, more bad news about household finances may be the last thing you're prepared to hear. But don't tune out just yet: The findings from a new Financial Capability Survey paint a troubling picture of the current state of financial capability in the U.S. adult population.
Miami businesses have been pulling out all the stops - including handing out free cocktails - to try to coax money from a large influx of tourists ahead of this weekend's Super Bowl.
Defaults by small and medium-sized U.S. businesses on loans, leases and credit lines to finance capital equipment investment fell for the first time in two years in December, adding to signs of a nascent economic recovery, PayNet Inc reported.
China has begun moving at the margins to withdraw excess cash from the financial system, as a spike in lending in the first few weeks of the year prompted concerns that credit growth was getting out of hand.
President Barack Obama's job-creation program could produce a short-term political boost, but it's unlikely to significantly stem job losses and reduce the unemployment rate anytime soon, according to economists.
After spending most of his first year in office focused on Wall Street, President Obama tried to reconnect with disenchanted Main Street voters in his first State of the Union address.
A nightmare environmental project turned into a call to action for Austin, Texas entrepreneur Kristen Carney. A couple years ago, while working for a large engineering consulting firm, Carney was hired to complete what she thought was a straightforward analysis...
Continuing a doc career that pessimists might say seems devoted to solvable problems that will never be solved, Davis Guggenheim moves from climate change to the crisis of American education.
As lenders continue to curtail access to mortgages, credit cards and other types of loans, one area of the credit market is rapidly expanding: student loans.
Online social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter are now firmly implanted in the cultural mainstream.
Macquarie University and Google have once again teamed up for an Australian first - this time by agreeing to provide 6,000 Gmail accounts to the University's research, teaching and administrative staff.
Google should carry out its threat to withdraw from China. The US search giant says a cyber-attack on its intellectual property, and attempts to access email data from human rights activists, have driven it to the edge.
As an entrepreneur, Gary Kremen knows something about growth industries.
The sentiment of U.S. small business owners stalled in December, hurt by weak sales and worries about government policies, according to a survey released on Tuesday.
No one in an organization wants to make a wrong decision and then be left holding the bag and looking bad. What's more, in many cases even CEOs of companies can't make final decisions without the other executives on their team buying in.
Let's say you've had a great conversation with a prospect. They've shared their problems and seem genuinely interested in what you are offering.
You see, I had a mental block. I associated cold calling with the worst of what selling was all about -- the going to war concept where you put on your armor and play a word and mind game with someone you've never met.
The other day, I got a call from Brian, who was a first time visitor to my website. He told me during our conversation, I see other people at work playing the old numbers game.
Cold calling the old way is a painful struggle. But you can make it a productive and positive experience by changing your mindset and cold calling the new way.
And we'll continue believing that we're always just one new sales technique away from the breakthrough we're looking for.
Here's a prediction for 2010: Another wild ride in the stock and bond markets, in real estate and in interest rates. The economists and analysts are all over the place when it comes to this year, leaving individual investors on their own to prepare for anything and everything.
Expect quite a bit of movement within operations roles in both investment banking and funds management, says Anton Murray, director of Anton Murray Consulting.
It’s all very well applying for jobs. However, the most desirable and prestigious ones are not necessarily advertised but filled by headhunters who approach suitable candidates on behalf of whoever’s hiring.
Owning and operating a business always comes with many challenges. For different reasons the current recession seems the worst we've ever experienced.
A historic economic crisis has left Americans with plenty of things to worry about. But is inflation one of them? And is there a risk that fretting over higher prices may actually bring them about?
One of the problems with financial mistakes is that they can go unnoticed for a long time before a crisis erupts. For example, one could spend many years undersaving for retirement only to discover at age sixty-five that one has not accumulated enough to afford a comfortable retirement.
The snowstorm that walloped the East Coast over the weekend hit retailers hard, forcing store closures and keeping shoppers at home by the fire. But those heavy storm clouds had a silver lining for shippers like United Parcel Service, the world's largest package delivery company, whose business peaks annually with the global gift-giving frenzy that culminates around Christmastime.
Britain's universities are being given an uncomfortable reminder of the depth of the recession as the government slashes their budgets and urges them to focus on degrees that will directly benefit the economy.
Stanford University has pulled $5 billion of private-partnership interests from the auction block due to a recovery in the stock and bond markets, the Wall Street Journal reported.
