Zozi uses a popular technology platform for delivering services that are definitely not tech related. The company’s website delivers daily deals using the same social commerce channel championed by Groupon and LivingSocial. The difference is that Zozi offerings provide consumers with handpicked travel and adventure experiences.
What are now large companies like Qualcom and Symantec both came from this one government initiative. Inventions like the electronic toothbrush also came from the same initiative. The Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) program sponsored by the Federal government is up for reauthorization but conflicting legislation from Congress could threaten the program causing jobs to […]
It’s an awfully big undertaking to go in to alone. In fact, most entrepreneurs open the doors of their business with product or service knowledge but what they lack is the knowledge to run a business. They might be master plumbers but don’t know how to market the business. They may be computer geniuses but […]
Small businesses are the innovators of the world and that innovation has no boundaries. Although the boring corporate retreat may not be high on the list of humanitatian concerns, it’s important to executives all over the world and that can mean profits and a lot of them. Putting for profits may have solved one of those problems.
With the economy the main focus of the upcoming 2012 elections, pollsters are providing small business owners a multitude of valuable information regarding the economy. In nearly every business, the way people feel about the economy drives their purchasing decisions. When the economy is seen as strong, spending rises but when it is viewed as […]
The classic debate will probably never end. Some politicians believe that the government has its hand in too much. Other politicians believe that the government is the sole resource for those people who have a difficult time helping themselves. One politician who believes that the government is too big is afraid that America’s small businesses […]
It’s “either the biggest building or the biggest tax scam on record.” President Barak Obama said this about a certain address in the Cayman Islands where more than 12,000 companies are registered as having their corporate headquarters there.
The United States Small Business Administration has been under fire as of late with their oversight committee alleging fraud and misuse of funds. As a result some members of congress have been calling for its abolition. Whether or not the SBA will be in existence this time next year is up in the air but […]