All Blog Posts Tagged 'Business' (6)

I saw an interesting post recently on Small Business Trends  by Scott Shane  about sources of small business financing.  Below you will see a chart that Mr. Shane created using U.S. Census data showing sources and percentages of use by small businesses to grow their…

I'm a big social media guy. I love Twitter. I read blogs more than I read books, watch YouTube more than live news and I like to think I have a pretty good blog at Ideas To Deals. Having said all of that it gets real noisy on the internet. Tough to figure out what is good and worth your time to follow and what is crap. Sure you can follow the big names but sometimes it…

Last week I attended a very interesting Columbus Metropolitan Club forum featuring Sequoia Capital  venture capitalist Michael Moritz . Michael has invested in some companies that you might have heard of such as Yahoo, Zappos, PayPal and Google. While this is an impressive list it is important to remember that all of these…

Let's talk about financing.  As the Director of the Ohio Small Business Development Center in central Ohio I get asked daily about financing options.  People want to know what is out there for their business.  Here is a quick list of types of financing that is "out there" for your business.…

Before making important business decisions, smart companies do due diligence -   the care a reasonable person should take before entering into an agreement or a transaction with another party.  The same holds true when starting a business.  You’re entering into an agreement with yourself and your backers to commit to a business for years or decades.  Therefore, before starting a new venture, you should do research to develop, test and refine your business idea.  However, many times,…

As a librarian in the Science, Business and News division at Columbus Metropolitan Library, I’m accustomed to answering customers’ questions related to a business they currently own or are considering starting.

Here’s a recent question I received:

Q: I am revising the marketing plan for my restaurant. I need to know marketing trends, consumer expenditures, demographic and psychographic information. Can you help me find free sources for this…