Business Plans a Waste of Time? Maybe...

Filed in archive Start Up by Greg Cruey on April 26, 2009

PE Hub published an article earlier this month about a study at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business. Here it is in a nutshell:Management and entrepreneurship professors...

Will COBRA Bite Your Business?

Filed in archive Human Resources by Greg Cruey on April 18, 2009

BusinessWeek pointed out last week that new Federal subsidies for COBRA are worrying some employers. COBRA (the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act) is a Reagan Era law that, "among ...

Renegotiating in Down Times

Filed in archive Operations by Greg Cruey on April 11, 2009

Robert Jones made the point recently that in an economy where businesses are failing and everyone's concerned with cutting costs, renegotiating your costs is a meaningful strategy. Everything can...

Internet Advertising Crash: Could It Take Down Your Business Model?

Filed in archive Trends by Greg Cruey on April 4, 2009

I've had a TechCrunch piece floating around in my head for a couple of weeks now, and it hit me today just what impact it could have on business that rely on any type of revenue from Internet adve...