A recent blog at The Entrepreneurial Mind discussed  when extreme bootstrapped startups need to spend money on their first big-ticket items: office space and employees.  While I appreciate a controlled burn rate and spending as much as anyone,  entrepreneurs who are most likely to succeed establish relationships with their business attorney, CPA, banker, and commercial [...]

DURHAM, N.C. – Business owners interested in improving their prospects for doing business as retailers or providing professional services in downtown Durham should take note of another round of funding now available through the City of Durham.

These days most businesses have web sites of some sort.  Have you ever wondered if a dissatisfied or injured customer in Peoria, Illinois or Honolulu, Hawaii could make you defend a lawsuit in their state just because they can view your website there?  This is a question I’ve been spending a lot of time on [...]

Fortune Magazine this week issued its list of best metro areas in which to launch a business. Durham is 15th on that list for midsized areas.

Here’s an interesting article from the Harvard Business Review discussing the struggle some corporate executives face with using social media.

Now that the inauguration festivities are behind us, President Obama needs to get to work. What should be first on his agenda? According to the Home Builders Association of Durham, Orange & Chatham Counties, first on the agenda should be addressing the free-falling housing industry. At the association’s installation of officers last week at Hope [...]