New ways to strike it rich on the Web

"Clever entrepreneurs are using the Internet to build a healthy customer base - before they even have the ability to deliver what they're selling. One of the many remarkable aspects of the Internet is how easily people can use it to pretend to be something they aren't. There...

The Next YouTubes

"After Google's deal, dotcoms are bubbling hot. What you need to know about Web 2.0. For budding internet entrepreneurs, the moral of Google's $1.65 billion purchase of video start-up YouTube is simple: Build a real,...

Why Are You Here -- Right Now? One Thousand People Collaborate to Create Worl...

Why Are You Here–Right Now? 1000 People Collaborate to Create World’s Fir...

Entrepreneurial Attention Deficit Disorder

"Are successful entrepreneurs more likely to have Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)? That's what some people think. I wouldn't know -- I couldn't stay focused long enough to research the study. In yesterday's column, I described what I call BADD Boss Syndrome -- or Boss...

A Passion for the Game

"Here goes -- day one of my new Yahoo! Finance small business column. First, why the name? Like a lot of entrepreneurs launching a new business or product, I agonized over finding just the right name for my column. It had to cover the range of stuff I'll be writing about...

Cambrian House - Submit Ideas and the Community builds it (ideas for Web Appl...

Cambrian House - Submit Ideas and the Community builds it (ideas for Web Applications)Earn money from just submitting ideas! Also, win a chance to detonate 25,001 Mentos! 

Asia's Young Entrepreneurs

"Led by China and India, Asia's superfast economies have dazzled observers for the last decade. But until recently the defining feature of most of them was corporate bigness.""n Japan and South Korea respectively, the traditional dominance of the keiretsu, or business...

The Super Stars of New Social Media

From the Wall Street Journal:""As videos, blogs and Web pages created by amateurs remake the entertainment landscape, unknown directors, writers and producers are being catapulted into positions of enormous influence. Each week, about a half-million people download a comedic...

Want to buy a Ferrari, part time? (The Charlotte Observer)

" Charlotte-area entrepreneurs invest in car-club startups, an idea geared toward fast-growing wealthy population STELLA M. HOPKINS shopkins@charlotteobserver.com BRANDON SMITH - bsmith@charlotteobserver.com Tom Pollan is owner of Privatus. Video | A taste of these luxury...

Freeing India for take off

"Pankaj Mishra is always entertaining. His elegant tirade against the "neo-oriental discourse" of the "business lounge class", however, doesn't help very much to further one's understanding of the great puzzle of our times - why, in fact, are China and India rising...

India to give young biz leaders loans - Monsters and Critics.com

"Indian governments trying to combat unemployment and young troublemakers want to give youth loans to help them become entrepreneurs."

Indian tycoons hit dead end abroad

What happens when globalization means Indian firms go abroad? "What's common between Vijay Mallaya, Ratan Tata and Lakshmi Mittal besides the fact that they are all Indian-born entrepreneurs looking to dominate global business? All three are victims of economic patriotism on...