Archive for the ‘Business’ Category

Highest Paid NBA Salaries For 2010-11 Season

July 14th, 2010 | Filed under: Business

Updated 10/17/2010

With all the hoopla and madness of the recent NBA free agency, it is always interesting to see what players ultimately get paid the most.

Like other sports, the NBA has their own salary rules and guidelines. Ultimately

The Top 10 Environmental Payouts

June 21st, 2010 | Filed under: Business, , , ,

At the end of the day no amount of money can really make up for the negative impact oil spills and other industrial outputs have on the environment, but there have been attempts by companies to try and make up

How Did MySpace Drop So Quickly?

June 19th, 2009 | Filed under: Business, ,

I don’t know about you, but it seems like Myspace has been around forever. I decided to do a little research and see when exactly the social network launched and it was only around 6 years ago, yet it seems like the once hyped place on the web is

Bootstrapping: Weapon of Mass Reconstruction

May 20th, 2009 | Filed under: Books, Business

Many argue that entrepreneurship is a possible solution to some of our economy problems. After all, if you can have people create new businesses, then that would obviously lead to new jobs, which will lead to lower unemployment, and so on and so on.

The problem is that too many

Twitter: What Business Plan?

March 23rd, 2009 | Filed under: Business,

TwitterWith the recent surge of Twitter growth, it seems like everybody is trying to add their own 2 cents on how Twitter can create their monetary business plan. The social network has grown over 1000% during the last year, yet

Dubai Becomes Goodbye

February 19th, 2009 | Filed under: Business,

the-palm-islands-dubaiHonestly, who didn’t see this coming? There are only so many indoor ski chalets, world tallest buildings, and man made islands that can be made before supply outweighs demand.

Top 10 Franchises for 2009

December 20th, 2008 | Filed under: Business, ,

Entrepreneur.com recently released their 2009 Franchise 500. A list that ranks the top 500 franchise opportunities.

The top 10 include (start-up costs):

  1. Subway ($78.6K-238.3K)
  2. McDonald’s ($950.2K-1.8M)
  3. Liberty Tax Service ($53.8K-66.9K)
  4. Sonic Drive In ($1.2M-3.2M)
  5. Intercontinental Hotels Group (Varies)
  6. Ace Hardware ($243.5K-1M)
  7. Pizza Hut ($638K-2.97M)
  8. UPS Store ($171.2K-280K)
  9. Circle K ($161K-1.4M)
  10. Papa John’s ($135.8K-491.6K)

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