There is a really great piece from NPR about David Swensen, and how he managed to grow Yale’s endowment at an average of 16.8 percent a year over the past two decades. Swensen’s basic formula for creating an investment portfolio for good returns while managing risk:
Domestic Equity (30 percent) - Stocks in U.S. based companies […]
Most successful businesses today have some connection to the Internet. Even brick and mortar businesses that don’t sell products online are aware of how important the Internets 24/7 audience is. Being available to the world, all hours of the day is key for building a brand and boosting profits. If you have never considered starting […]
I was on Digg.com the other day and saw the headline “101 ways to make money online.” Being the curious fellow that I am, I clicked.
After scrolling down the page a bit, I saw a few interesting ideas I hadn’t thought of for businesses. Anyway, although a lot of these aren’t really great or new […]
I was perusing through Forbes and I stumbled across this article from a few days ago.
Now, lot’s of people have the entrepreneurial spirit and work ethic to start a business, but many times they don’t fully think through their business plan, causing them to fail. According to this article, only 44% are still around after […]
According to this article, office color can make a big difference in how employees feel while at work.
Employees have revealed they get depressed when they work in an office that is painted blue.
Yellow offices made staff feel happy, energised and more focused on their work.
Employees said they felt angrier and more passionate if there was […]
ON HER blog, called Dooce, Heather Armstrong chronicles her life as a disenchanted Mormon in Salt Lake City, her former career as a high-flying web designer in Los Angeles, her pregnancy and postpartum depression, and so on. A year ago, her blog started generating enough advertising revenue to become the main source of income for […]
