TheAngryTeddy - Social Media, Podcast, Marketing & Consulting. Need a Business Idea? Tap Into Lifestyle Trends in the Evolving Luxury Market. The idea of luxury is evolving for consumers, as they're spending any extra money they have in a variety of different ways than they did before the recession, according to a report this week by consumer-research company IBIS World.
For entrepreneurs, these lifestyle shifts can help spark new business ideas. "Instead of returning to those discretionary purchases that they previously cut and readily splurging on luxury goods like full-priced jewelry or sports cars, Americans have opted for more subdued, conscientious and functional versions of luxury," wrote Nikoleta Panteva and Agata Kaczanowska, the IBIS analysts who authored the report. The report defined this "new luxury market" as one where consumers are focused on cheap splurges, tailored attention, and green or healthy choices. These market trends are expected to drive more than $1.5 trillion in revenue this year. Best Free Entrepreneurship Resources in NYC. By Marisa Bramwell So you want to launch a business in New York City, but don’t know where to get started and have limited funds.
Whether you’re interested in tech, retail, services or something in-between, New York City is a fantastic place to launch your venture, thanks to a number of start-up and small business resources – many of them free or inexpensive. Here’s a list of some places to look: Free Resources NY Small Business Development Center (NY SBDC): The NY Small Business Development Center, sponsored by the Small Business Administration, provides small business owners and entrepreneurs with business consulting services. Silicon Valley's gender gap handicap. (Sol Tzvi, founder of Genieo, based in Israel.)
Silicon Valley is running hard to maintain its position as the global innovation engine, against competition with dozens of fast growing innovation centers around the world. Which is why it's puzzling that Silicon Valley has such a large gender gap in key sectors such as angels, VCs, entrepreneurs, engineers, and in senior executive roles. Why isn't Silicon Valley using all of its people? Successful startups are businesses that quickly figure out how to make products and services far more productive, for far less money, they spot arbitrage opportunities in huge industries and markets, they make use of the best resources available to them — tools, capital, business know-how, skilled staff. So why so few women? The recent Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers sex discrimination suit has focused attention on the shockingly small number of women in the VC community. Some of the larger companies such as Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Google, Yahoo! Nine Things Successful People Do Differently - Heidi Grant Halvorson.
9 Keys to Business & Career Success. I'm fortunate enough to know a number of remarkably successful people.
Regardless of industry or profession, they all share the same perspectives and beliefs. And they act on those beliefs: 1. Time doesn't fill me. I fill time. Deadlines and time frames establish parameters, but typically not in a good way. Forget deadlines, at least as a way to manage your activity. Average people allow time to impose its will on them; remarkable people impose their will on their time. 2. Some of your employees drive you nuts. You chose them. Think about the type of people you want to work with. Then change what you do so you can start attracting those people. Make Something People Love: Lessons From a Startup Guy.
So, you want to learn how to make a product people love—that’s great!
But stop right there. Before you can make something people love, you have to make something people want . . . What’s challenging and wonderful about the web is that tricks of perception alone will not work. Anything you create actually has to be good. No matter how much you try to convince someone to buy or use your product, they are always only a back button away from something more interesting. The internet is the most efficient marketplace for ideas that has ever existed, but your competition is stiff, and comes in all forms.
Alexis Ohanian is a startup founder and investor in Brooklyn, NY. Business Plans, Strategy Consulting, Investment Banking. What's the Best Way to Learn to Be an Entrepreneur? As an Inc.com columnist it's my job to take a position.
(Columnists who don't have opinions also don't have readers.) The result, though, is a one-sided conversation where the natural exchange of ideas between people gets lost. Sometimes I'm right. Sometimes I'm wrong.