Business Pundit

  Share As American children, we are told that people are often wealthy because they are hard workers who built empires on boot straps and elbow grease.  As we get older, we realize that there is an even more important component of… Read more

  Share What does it take to be the World’s Youngest CEO? Marbles, apparently. A lot of marbles. At the age of 8, British “Marble King” Harli Jordean has recently been dubbed the World’s Youngest CEO, stripping 14 year-old Indian… Read more

The history of the international fraternity of Freemasonry is riddled with secrets. Attempting to make a definitive account of its beliefs, rituals and influence would prove to be an extremely difficult, if not impossible, task. By their very… Read more

Those trying to start their own business love looking to other successful entrepreneurs for advice and guidance. It’s only natural to expect that someone with infinitely more success than you would have something intelligent to say, but emulating… Read more

 Thanks to American Express OPEN for making this article possible as part of the Big Break for Small Business program. Visit FaceBook.com to learn more about the Big Break contest. Enter your small business for a chance to win a… Read more

Roth’s new book, The Entrepreneur Equation. Wanna be an entrepreneur? Think it’s a glamorous gig that will change your life for the better? Carol Roth will set you straight. Roth, a longtime business adviser and former investment banker,… Read more

This is a guest post by Carol Roth. Are you tired of working for someone else? Do you think starting your own business could get you off the unemployment line? Think again. The failure rate for new businesses within the first 5 years is as high… Read more

The great thing about the Internet is that it allows us all to pursue a lifetime of learning for free. The major universities are now even offering many of their class lectures online for free (e.g. Yale University Courses). Today, the fact is… Read more

Avoid cubicle farms and bosses breathing down your neck by starting an online business that you can run from home. Once you start making real money, you might never turn back. Here are 50 online businesses you start and run from home: Virtual… Read more

This is a guest post by Robert Jordan. Want to know how some of America’s most successful entrepreneurs made it? Here are some jolts of inspiration and shots of courage for new business owners, gleaned from interviews with 45 of… Read more

This is a guest post by SaleSpider CEO Russell Rothstein. Not a day goes by when I don’t read – or in some cases hear firsthand – some variation of this question: “Is social media really worth my time and effort, especially when I have… Read more

Do you have a startup that needs money? If the answer is yes, is it a software, biotech, energy, or medical devices company? Do you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, Boston, or New York? In addition, can you access a venture capitalist… Read more

It happens to all of us – that logo you spent hours, days, weeks working on with a graphic designer turned out beautiful. You slapped it on all your letterhead, business cards, signage, websites and other promotional materials. And once it was out… Read more

This is a guest post by David Siteman Garland. Ahhh the wonderful world of entrepreneurship. The funny thing about giving advice to entrepreneurs is that many of us are entrepreneurs because we want to do things our way. Therefore, a “this is… Read more