Startup | Page 6

Entrepreneurs often have to make tough sacrifices to get their businesses off the ground. For John Schnatter, it was his 1971 Z28 Camaro. He sold the gold-and-black car for $2,800 in 1983 and used the money to save his father’s tavern from closing and start his own business: Papa John’s pizza restaurant. Twenty-five years later, […]

An eye-tracking study of 25 people said to represent the average social-networking site users found that a majority of them approved of seeing advertisements and even engaged with ads while searching for products and reviews on their favorite social portals, according a report released this week. The study, titled “Seeing Search Go Social,” by search […]

The $787 billion economic stimulus package signed into law by President Barack Obama this week contains $116 billion in tax cuts for individuals, more than $53 billion for education and job training, and north of $10 billion for health, science and research. But there’s nary a penny explicitly set aside for startups and entrepreneurs. In […]

Despite being attacked during the election for his perceived lack of consideration for America’s business owners (see Joe “The Plumber,” et. al.), Barack Obama as president-elect has shown an almost wonkish savvy when it comes to the machinations of entrepreneurship in the United States. His recent proposal to fund a national network of business incubators […]