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This recession has been extremely difficult for all age groups, but it has hit particularly hard the employment prospects of the 16-to-19 year olds where the unemployment rate is reported to have reached more than 21%.  But as they say, necessity is the mother of invention, and teens in need of spending money or looking […]

The economic problems impacting the United States and the rest of the world are taking a toll on ordinary citizens who are seeing their jobs vanish in the wake of the worst recession since the 1930s.  In the last 13 months alone, 3.6 millions jobs have been lost in the United States and the prognosis […]

The economic news is truly gruesome out there.  Companies are laying off workers by the thousands.  The unemployment rate has reached the highest level in decades and continues to rise.  Companies that are not cutting headcount may be cutting benefits from 401K match to profit sharing plans to much more.  In essence, you should feel […]

Becoming a self-made millionaire by bootstrapping you own business is a great accomplishment - doing so before you are old enough to vote is absolutely amazing.  Cameron Johnson, the author of the book You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way– and Live the Life You Want– with the 19 Essential Secrets of Entrepreneurship started his […]

When it comes to internet entrepreneurship the key is experimentation.  Twitter is point proof that is it very difficult to know whether your idea is going to be the next web sensation or a complete dud.  To many people’s surprise, Twitter has gone mainstream and is completely entrenched in today’s web culture.  Twitter has become […]

The brothers Dave and Joe Herbert were awarded $1 million by the snack maker Frito-Lay for winning the USA Today’s Super Bowl Ad Meter contest, being rated by consumers as the most popular Super Bowl ad.
Both Dave and Joe, who are 32 and 33 years old respectively, are married with kids, and unemployed.  They are […]

Worldwide Success is one source of self-improvement tips and commentary that is freely available to you on the internet.  But there are many other complementary sites out there that you should check out as well.  Today we are pleased to share with you one such site: peoplejam.com.  Peoplejam.com’s philosophy is that self-improvement should be fun.  […]

Guy Kawasaki is an entrepreneur, blogger, columnist, author, and venture capitalist.  For entrepreneurs looking for a great source of information, Guy’s blog, How to Change the World, is a worthwhile read.  Having funded a number of startups and started some of his own, including Truemors and Alltop, Guy certainly has the credentials to discuss important […]

Most entrepreneurs, active or potential, love to read about real life success stories of people who turned an idea into a business and grew it into a million-dollar enterprise.  The stories that are the most fun to read are the ones that are least likely to happen.  Like the ones where someone just stumbles upon a […]

In the last article we talked about the key to a successful idea and explained how great ideas are born out of the implementation of ideas that at first may not have the early indications of a big idea.  We explained how through persistence and by tweaking the original idea based on the feedback you gather […]

Entrepreneurs are always looking for the big idea.  Many entrepreneurial pursuits are often put on hold because the potential entrepreneur keeps on waiting to come across that brilliant idea that will generate millions of dollars.  This concept that there is a big idea out there waiting to be found is so prevalent that it has […]