We’ve always known that entrepreneurs are a little different than everyone else. They have traits that make it easier for them to take risks and remain hopeful when times are tough. According to The Wall Street Journal a new study just might prove that entrepreneurship just might be in their DNA

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Is Business In Your Blood?

June 17 (Bloomberg) — News Corp. s forecast that it will take at least six months to win clearance of its proposed takeover of pay-TV provider British Sky Broadcasting Plc suggests a difficult review ahead by regulators.

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News Corp. to Face Drawn-Out Probe of BSkyB Deal, Lawyers Say

Usually the problem with work at home businesses is isolation, lack of resources, inability to achieve “economies of scale”,etc. Yesterday, someone lead me to check out this entry at Wikipedia on the Mondragon Corporation

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Can Home Based Business Cooperatives Thrive?

A roundup of recent campaign news from and about Florida: Can you win a primary when the following three facts appear in nearly every news article about you: Mike Tyson was best man at your wedding; Heidi Fleiss lived in your guest house; and you made much of your fortune betting on the housing market collapse? Jeff Greene, a…

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Florida, Lately: Big Bucks and “Baggage”

It’s Thursday so it’s time to Stump Markus today at noon eastern time! If it’s high noon on Thursday, it’s time for Stump Markus. Here’s how it works: During the first part of the broadcast, online copywriting “junkie” Ryan Healy and I offer 10-minute website makeover advice (subscribe above to see how to submit your website for review — it’s free)

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Free Website Makeover Tips

It has been well documented that people who choose a vegetarian diet enjoy superior health with lower risks for a variety of disorders, such as diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. 1   Now, science has presented us with yet another reason to choose the healthful vegetarian lifestyle. A new study published in Journal Nutrition has linked the vegetarian lifestyle with healthier mood states.

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Vegetarian diet promotes healthy mood state

One of the truly jarring dimensions of the Great Recession is the death sentence it has imposed on of hundreds of brands, even whole companies, that were once familiar parts of the business landscape — not just bankruptcies, but liquidations and flat-out disappearances. Once-proud automobile nameplates, including GM’s Oldsmobile and Pontiac, and Ford’s Mercury, have become history

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If Your Company Went Out of Business, Would Anybody Notice?

Anyone who has ever surfed the web, used a computer or even purchased a smart phone pretty much knows what an app is. They’re everywhere. Applications can be a game, simplify purchases or replace paper when you need to jot down a quick note.

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Connecting With Your Community Online

I switched over to the AM band and picked up the Red Sox game just as I was passing Fenway on the Pike on my way home from Boston. I listened to the play-by-play for a while, hearing about Victor Martinez’s long out to center field and J.D Drew’s double to put the Sox ahead. When the inning ended, I hit the search button on the radio, revisiting a world from long ago

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Listening to my country

Breathe new life into old objects and reduce landfill waste by diverting leftover odds and ends that would be relegated to the dumpster into useful items. Call it repurposing, call it recrafting, call it creative reuse, or call it trash transformed

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Six ingenious things to make from scraps

(Photo: Courtesy of Electronic Recyclers International) Fresno, California-based Electronic Recyclers International, Inc. (ERI) is the largest recycler in the U.S. of the growing tide of e-waste (electronic waste).

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1-800-recycling makes recycling a snap

CTV News : The National Hockey League playoffs end this week, and 29-year-old entrepreneur Juha Mikkola hopes to continue making inroads in Canada’s hockey-mad culture by selling floorball as an off-ice activity that helps players improve their skills. NHL stars such as Henrik and Daniel Sedin grew up playing this European version of floor hockey, the second-ranked sport behind soccer in Sweden

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A Different Kind Of Hockey

(Photo: Yahoo! News/AFP/Saul Loeb) At first news of the Gulf Coast oil spill, I started looking for opportunities to help. I knew one thing from the Exxon Valdez catastrophe, nothing goes straight to my heart like the sight of oiled birds. (Or any of the other animals threatened by this maddening disaster .) From all that I have looked into, there doesn’t seem to be much hands-on work for untrained civilians in the Northeast — aside from donating money, advocating, and activism , which are all great things to be doing

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Armchair activism for oil-spill animals

A Florida salesman is hoping the road to his success is paved in simple red bricks. Next week, Eric Polins will vie to become the “World’s Greatest Salesperson,” a contest put on by Ad giant OgilvyOne to see who can come up with the most convincing sales pitch for an arguably hum-drum product – a plain old red brick.

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World’s Greatest Salesperson?

I confessed in my first post in this series on how to create a podcast that my first question was: what is a podcast, exactly?? I had always assumed it was just a trendy new buzz word for an MP3 or audio file

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What is a Podcast, exactly? The answer…

Every start-up entrepreneur has an overwhelming amount to get done — the “to dos” are constantly outrunning the “dones.” It is easy to get caught up in the day-to-day and endless hours, and you often forget that running really hard does not necessarily equate with running in the right direction.

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The Three Roles of Great Entrepreneurs

Science news in the media today is full of stories about Fermilab finding no less than five Higgs particles: God Particles Breeding Like Bosons, The ‘God Particle’ may exist in five forms, Large Hadron Collider’s rival project finds, US experiment hints at ‘multiple God particles’, Fermilab Experiment Hints at Multiple Higgs Particles. The source of these stories can be traced back to this preprint, whose authors then appeared on this radio program, leading to this Symmetry Breaking story….

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God Particles Breeding Like Bosons

Many vacations start with a plane flight, a car trip, or even train travel. But have you considered a trip that ends with a night spent inside an airplane or other vehicle? Creative hotels around the world are reusing cast-off planes, trains, and trailers as stylish places for guests to relax

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Sleep in planes, trains, and other vehicles

(Photo: Veer) Most of us know that baking soda can be used for more than just making homemade cookies and other dough rise. It’s not uncommon to see an open box of this leavening agent deodorizing refrigerators, for example. But did you know that there are at least 40 different ways to use baking soda?

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40 fantastic uses for baking soda

Who said you should only send press releases to journalists? Why not send them directly to your buyers? You can reach millions of buyers with press releases

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PR, News Releases, and Why They’re Marketing Tools