BizOp Blogs

New York Times: Bill Neugent, an engineer in McLean, Va., is doing his bit to ease the looming generational financial squeeze as the nation’s 75 million baby boomers begin to retire. He’s working longer. Mr. Neugent, 62, plans to work full time until he is 65 and then part time for the Mitre Corporation,... More

NewsReleaseWire: The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has projected that the number of Americans over the age of 65 will grow by 77.8 percent between the years 2010 and 2030. Meanwhile, survey data reported last month suggested that baby boomers fast-approaching retirement age might not leave the workforce... 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

Work.com: Until recently, iPhone’s suitability for businesses was a raging debate. But by now the verdict is near unanimous – it is too beautiful, user friendly and powerful a device to be merely the end consumers’ baby. Apple, iPhone’s creators, too has woken up to this fact, and the... More

Courant: Forget economic stimulus checks. Same-sex marriages might give California just the financial boost it needs. Wedding planners, bakers and hotel representatives say they began booking more business almost immediately after the state Supreme Court’s decision May 15 overturning a ban on... More

PowerHomeBiz: Green marketing is the new “in” thing. Celebrities like Cameron Diaz and Leonardo di Caprio prefer to drive hybrid cars. HGTV channel is giving away a “green” home. Ikea has done away with the free plastic bags. Crate and Barrel is marketing ecofriendly furnitures.... More

Andrew Grant: One of the greatest benefits that comes from technology is that the cost of communicating with your customers and prospects keeps getting lower and the number of opportunities to interact with them keeps increasing. E-mail and websites are an incredibly cheap resource and once you have... More

Chicago Tribune: Going green is a hot topic among businesses these days. In fact, many companies, from Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to Hewlett-Packard Co., have changed the way they do business in an effort to be more environmentally conscious. But what can a small business with limited dollars do to help... More

Springwise: As the weakening economy causes purse strings to tighten, consumers are increasingly looking for new ways to earn a little extra cash. Enter My Gold Party, which facilitates Tupperware-style parties focused on helping guests sell their unused gold. Launched earlier this year, My Gold Party... More

NicheGeek: Last summer we wrote about FreeHand Advertising and its initiative to give free, ad-supported notepaper to college students, and now ABS Notebooks is going a step further and handing out whole notebooks instead. The Shadow Notebook is a five-subject notebook that gets cobranded with participating... More

TheStreet.com: 4 years ago, Donny Ouyang cracked open one of his dad’s old computer science books and began learning HTML code and Web site techniques. This accidental discovery grew into a great entrepreneurial opportunity when he sold his first Web site less than a year later. Now 16, Ouyang... More

BloggingStocks: A recent report published by the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB) gives indications that although American small businesses are certainly tightening their game plans a bit, they are by no means going down for the count. The report reviews a number of important indicators,... More