Filed in archive Trends by Greg Cruey on February 24, 2009

In case you missed it, BusinessWeek had a piece earlier this month on the how a number of businesses are cutting back on outsourcing as part of their fiscal response to the recession. Of course, that&...

Mark Cuban's Open Source Funding: Can Your Business Plan Break Even in 60 Days?

Filed in archive Biz Opportunities by Greg Cruey on February 15, 2009

Entrepreneur Mark Cuban wants to fund your business plan. IN the words of Seth Godin, he's calling your bluff:Post a business plan that meets certain criteria and he'll consider funding it, ri...

How the Recession is Shaping Up

Filed in archive Trends by Greg Cruey on February 12, 2009

A few days ago I looked at job losses in this recession and talked about the difficult task of predicting sales. I used a chart from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that showed real job losses in the 1...

Can You Predict Your April Sales This Year? (I Think Not...)

Filed in archive Trends by Greg Cruey on February 8, 2009

Jack and Suzy Welch said this today:To say times feel tough doesn't cover it. They feel unprecedented, even for the ones of us who managed through the recessions of 1973-75, '80-'82, and &...