29th
February
2000
“With the increase of online publications over the past few years, Web sites are hungry for content and for people who can produce it. Higher salaries and more freedom for creativity often prove irresistible to journalistic job-seekers. The result is that traditional print newspapers may be facing an uncertain future in the competition for editorial talent.”
posted in The Web | Permalink |
24th
February
2000
“In the year 2000 we’re in the middle of an information revolution. So when FORTUNE asked four of America’s largest office-design companies (Knoll, Herman Miller, Haworth, and Hon Industries) to predict what our workplaces might look like 50 years from now, we weren’t surprised that matters of communication figured prominently in all the designs.”
posted in Business | Permalink |
23rd
February
2000
“A biweekly webzine about balancing work and life.” Unfortunately, the frames prevent linking to individual articles. Brought to you by Herman Miller.
posted in Life | Permalink |
18th
February
2000
“Written over 100 years ago, John Ruskin’s ‘Law of Business’ definitely applies to today with the design and development of Internet business systems such as websites and Intranets. With websites costing anything from a few hundred dollars to a few million dollars, it is easy for potential customers to get confused when trying to compare various website systems and solutions from different suppliers. These days a business website needs to be more than just an electronic advertising brochure for your business. Naturally, your business website needs to be graphically attractive, easy to navigate and quick to load. More importantly, your website needs to offer real value to users. It needs to be functional — that is, it needs to enable and empower visitors to the site to DO things that are of value to them.”
posted in Business | Permalink |
17th
February
2000
“There is a cost to not finding information. Although it’s impossible to measure the exact cost of employees not finding information on a company’s intranet, [this] tool will give a ballpark figure.”
posted in The Web | Permalink |
16th
February
2000
“If entrepreneurs traditionally worked to build viable companies, high-tech entrepreneurs seem to be increasingly focused on building just a shell of a business that will be swallowed up by a bigger company before it ever has to show that it can stand on its own, critics say.”
posted in Entrepreneurship | Permalink |
16th
February
2000
“There is a new class structure in Silicon Valley: those who have stock options and those who don’t. New wealth is rewriting relationships with friends, family and co-workers. Are these paper millionaires really happy?”
posted in Finance/VC | Permalink |
16th
February
2000
“Within the first 18 months on the job, 40 percent of all management newbies fail by either getting fired, voluntarily bowing out of the position or receiving a bad review, according to Manchester Inc., a business consulting group based near Philadelphia. In a survey of more than 825 human resources mangers nationwide, Manchester found that the number one problem among newly promoted managers by far (as cited by 82 percent of the respondents) was a failure to build partnerships and team work. So here are seven perennial, first-time manager mistakes and how to avoid them.”
posted in Leadership | Permalink |
15th
February
2000
“Collaborate with your project team anytime… anywhere! Say goodbye to sticky notes, courier charges, photocopying, hard-to-read faxes and blown deadlines. The future is web-based collaboration. And it’s here. Now.”
posted in Project management | Permalink |
12th
February
2000
“Picture it: You’ve a great idea for the next Amazon, and you now need to talk to Venture Capitalists, developers, ad partners and so on. But you don’t want them stealing your idea and running away with it. Your solution: A Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA). This basically says that you can talk to people in the knowledge that they will treat the matter confidentially.”
posted in Business | Permalink |
12th
February
2000
A list of places of where to look for funding, financing and tips.
posted in Finance/VC | Permalink |
12th
February
2000
“Picture it: You’ve a great idea for the next Amazon, and you now need to talk to Venture Capitalists, developers, ad partners and so on. But you don’t want them stealing your idea and running away with it. Your solution: A Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA). This basically says that you can talk to people in the knowledge that they will treat the matter confidentially.”
posted in Entrepreneurship, Finance/VC | Permalink |
11th
February
2000
“What’s wrong with the 500-year-old way in which all companies keep their books? Just about everything, says Baruch Lev, who has proposed a new method for determining the value of the intangible assets that are at the heart of the new economy.”
posted in Finance/VC | Permalink |
9th
February
2000
“Answers are provided to questions that new Internet sellers will have regarding costs, risks and process steps needed for receiving and authorizing credit card payments online.”
posted in Ecommerce | Permalink |
8th
February
2000
“What makes ecommerce hum? Dozens of technologies and companies, most of which you’ve never heard of. These are the so-called ‘enabler’ companies, the firms competing fast and hard to build the infrastructure for ecommerce in both the retail and business-to-business universes. From the front end to the back, they make the hardware, software, services, tools, and transactions platform that make the wheels of ecommerce turn. Enabler companies with unsexy names and services drive the process.”
posted in Ecommerce | Permalink |