Oliver Stone Calls For Speculation Tax

You have heard me call for a speculation tax many times. It looks like others have come to the same conclusion.

Have a look at this video interview of director Oliver Stone with the WSJ discussing his new movie “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps,” the sequel to his 1987 film “Wall Street”:

Bootstrapping To $19 Million: Office Ally CEO Brian O’Neill (Part 6)

SM: What are your future plans for the company? Where is Office Ally headed?

BO: We continue to find ways to reduce waste in healthcare. There is a concept called the accountable care organization. >>>

EDA Entrepreneurs: Build To Enjoy

I know I have a lot of readers from the EDA industry. Once a hotbed of innovation, entrepreneurship, and wealth creation, it is an industry that is now moribund. VCs and angel investors have all but abandoned the industry, and those private companies that exist find it difficult to create lucrative exits, a phenomenon that further turns off investors.

This post, however, is a look at the opportunities that exist within this ecosystem and against this general backdrop. >>>

1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs On September 30

Entrepreneurs interested in discussing positioning, financing, and other aspects of a startup venture, are welcome to attend our next FREE online 1M/1M strategy roundtable on Thursday, September 30, 2010, starting at: 11 a.m. EDT/8 a.m. PDT/8:30 p.m. IST.  Please join us and let other entrepreneurs know. You can find more details and register here.

September 23 Roundtable Poll Winner

Brad Barrett’s GrillGrate was chosen the best business of those presented at yesterday’s roundtable through a poll on our Facebook page. Congratulations! In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording of the roundtable here.

1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: LOGOPremiums

By guest author Praveen Kumar

How much of a consumer’s decision to click on a URL is based on domain name? Domain name plays a big part, says Jeff Levine, and is testing his hypothesis through his company LOGOpremiums, a network of B2B e-catalogs that sells promotional items in which each e-catalog website uses a product-specific keyword domain name such as Logoteeshirts.com or Logocups.com. The company manufactures custom logo products and imports and distributes stock logo products. >>>

Bootstrapping To $19 Million: Office Ally CEO Brian O’Neill (Part 5)

SM: What is the process for processing a paper claim? Aside from manual data entry, how does it increase cost over digital claims?

BO: When a paper claim comes in it is scanned and OCR’d. It is then loaded into the system and the codes are error checked. If the doctor sends a bad code, somebody has to mail the letter to the doctor to tell them how they messed up. >>>

Roundtable Recap: September 23 – Do Not Spray And Pray

At today’s roundtable, we had three niche e-commerce entrepreneurs and two e-commerce infrastructure entrepreneurs. I will describe their businesses briefly, below. You can vote on which one you like most by clicking on our Facebook page. If you missed the session, please listen to the recording before voting.

First up was Brad Barrett presenting GrillGrate, a grill accessory with which Brad has built a year-to-date revenue of $400,000. We discussed how Brad might be able to do his first $1 million year by leveraging the upcoming holiday season. What is working well for Brad is a combination of television infomercials and e-commerce. Brad has had some success in working with retailers as well, but I advised him to be careful about the cash flow management. To do a solid holiday season, he will need to balance the inventory and marketing budgets, and getting stuck in a complex situation with inventory being stuff in the retail channels with bad terms will be the kiss of death. I will work with him on his inventory financing strategy.
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