BizOp Blogs

Ecademy: Running a business as a sole trader can be flexible, cost effective and administratively less burdensome than other business forms. However there are some factors you need to consider day to day when running a small business as a sole trader, and in particular whether some other business form... More

New research finds economic gains whenever new businesses replace older ones. INC.com: While the current business climate has more owners worried about staying afloat, new research finds economic benefits when new businesses replace older ones. According to the Kauffman Foundation, so-called business... More

Voice of América: Young people in Kurdistan are embracing new opportunities to develop and expand their own businesses. Suzanne Presto speaks to one young woman who balances a family, two beauty salons and entrepreneurial classes – while planning to expand her beauty business in the northern... More

Fortune Small Business: It’s slow progress at best, strolling through the Fez medina with David Kellar and Brian Smith. The heavily laden donkeys don’t help. Nor do the boys playing pickup soccer games, or the shopkeepers who spread their wares in the cobbled alleys of the medieval walled... More

By Cali Zimmerman – NuWire Investor: Buying a business that is already up and running can potentially be a wiser choice for an entrepreneur than starting up a company from scratch. In exchange for the higher upfront costs, buyers of an existing business receive a business that’s already on its... More

Top Small Business Coach Robert Moment Offers Unique Guarantee for entrepreneurs and small business owners. PR-Inside.com: Robert Moment, innovative forward-thinking small business and marketing coach (www.howtostartyoursmallbusiness.com) recently announced that he is offering an unconditional money... More

This article can be found at msnbc.com. Here is a portion of it– For the first time in more than 90 years, a family -un bakery in Atlantic City, N.J., is trying to keep it’s profit margins above water, and that includes the years during the depression. Frank D. Formica, owner of Formica Brothers... More

Business Wire: The Principal Financial Group® will feature Susan Wilson Solovic, chief executive officer of SBTV (Small Business Television) and author, as guest presenter for its complimentary teleclass, “A Discussion with the Author of The Girls’ Guide to Building a Million-Dollar Business.”... More

Standard: Entrepreneurs are described as risk takers who are ready and willing to seize opportunities. That description aptly fits Boaz Mak’ Abongo. After quitting a high profile job with a multinational company to set up a tour firm, Zytec Tours and Travel, in 2006, it didn’t take him long to spot... More

WSJ: Three weeks ago, 50-year-old Mimi Norris strapped on black steel-toe boots, packed a face mask and a digital camera in her bag, and headed to work. Her assignment: inspecting a foreclosed home in a blue-collar neighborhood of Akron, Ohio. From outside, the small white house appeared to be in good... More