Brunswick ME September 6, 2010, 9:34 am  57°F wind speed: 4 mph W |  Walt Disney World Monorail by William Allen Walt Disney was a mastermind who valued American industry and science, though his namesake company has replaced ingenuity with product placement, contends columnist John Kao, and what America needs now is “the bold thinking of a Walt Disney more than ever.”
Rosalind Resnick, founder and CEO of a New York consulting firm, and author of The Vest Pocket Consultant’s Secrets of Small Business Success, presents the top 10 mistakes entrepreneurs make when starting a company. Brett Wickard ’90 and Chris Brown ’91 launched Bull Moose Music while students at Bowdoin, and the old-school music store (now a successful chain) continues to thrive in an industry that’s otherwise nearly dead.
Karen Mills, administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration and wife of President Barry Mills, delivered the keynote address before commercial lenders from 25 states at the SBA-sponsored East Coast Conference in Portland Monday. Mills is pushing for passage of the Small Business Jobs and Credit Act once the Senate returns to session in September. The bill includes a $30 billion lending fund for small businesses, $12 billion in tax breaks and an increase in SBA loan limits.
It’s called “retargeting” — an ad for something you’ve shopped for online follows you from site to site, popping up on Facebook, YouTube and other pages you visit. This highly personalized form of marketing is being called the latest breakthrough in digital advertising. Jonathan Tisch interviews American Express CEO Ken Chenault ’73 for the CNBC program Beyond the Boardroom.
If you feel clueless when it comes to the complexities of economics, this primer based on the book The Economic Way of Thinking may help.
Entrepreneur Saudia Davis ‘00 is among those highlighted in an article about the entrepreneurial ideal and the college courses and continuing education classes that endeavor to foster it.
Even after relatively recent lessons learned in the crashes of real estate and technology stocks, investors still tend to flock to overheated sectors like moths to a flame. Fortune examines some of the likely suspects — and a few may surprise you. |  |
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