Banks have been pretty stingy with loaning to small businesses, but Bank of America plans to help in a “Outliers” way by hiring Malcolm Gladwell. From Raw Story: Bank of America announced today that they had contracted with author and New Yorker scribe Malcolm Gladwell to headline a series of lectures designed to attract small [...]
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Blink: Bank Of America Helps Small Businesses Be ‘Outliers’
November 16th, 2011 
Nichelle 
Posted in banks, business advice, entrepreneurs 
Tags: banks, BOA, malcom gladwell, outliers, small business 
1 Comment »Ten Challenges For Women Entrepreneurs
August 29th, 2011 Nichelle She Takes On The World surveyed a 1000 women entrepreneurs and they identified the top ten challenges for women entrepreneurs. I think most of these challenges apply to men as well, but some stem from women needing to brag more and have more confidence in their work, product or service. Being afraid to take the [...]
Tip For Starting Your Own Business From Dooce
August 23rd, 2011 Nichelle Tips for Starting Your Own Business from dooce on Vimeo. My friend Emily linked to this on Twitter.
Take Five: Social Media Interns, Fat Wallet, Hire Lite, Failure is Good
August 11th, 2011 Nichelle Did you get and/or looking to hire a social media intern? Read these tips on managing them. Is your wallet fat? Slim it down and spend less money. I really like this article. Nine reasons why failure is not fatal. Looking to hire a developer, programmer? Looking for a job? Check out HireLite. Site I [...]
Take Five: Finovate, Manilla, Small Business Advice, Loosecubes, Fab
August 4th, 2011 Nichelle Finovate Fall is coming soon to NYC. Early bird registration ends August 12. I will be there as press this year. Small Business Accounting Advice: The New York Times has published a great guide for entrepreneurs about basic accounting. Bookmark this! Manilla organizes your utility bills, travel reward programs, Hearst magazine subscriptions, credit cards and [...]
Posted in accounting, business advice, personal finance, small business Tags: fab, finovate, manilla 1 Comment »Small Business: From Pop Up Dream To Actual Reality
August 2nd, 2011 Nichelle Yesterday, I read this post on Forbes, “So You Think You Can Cook, Test Your Skills and Open Up A Pop Up Eatery“. It gives some good advice which is very similar to the outline in my cupcake business class but it reads so “easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy”. I especially question the wisdom of this advice: Come up [...]
The End Of The Second Quarter Is Near
June 28th, 2011 Nichelle How is your business doing this quarter vs. first quarter? What adjustments should you be making? Do you have to file quarter taxes? Things to think about as the holiday weekend approaches!
Seven Ways To Help Entrepreneurs Help the Economy
June 16th, 2011 Nichelle Entrepreneurs across the country are quoting Tom Cruise in Jerry Maguire and saying “Help me, help you”. They know the key to the economic recovery to help small business owners grow so that can hire more people. There’s an excellent article on The Atlantic.com site which offers seven ways to help entrepreneurs. IMMIGRATION REFORM It [...]
What Aspiring Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Lady Gaga
June 13th, 2011 Nichelle Illustration by Molly Crabapple The Wall Street Journal has a blog named “In Charge” which is about the challenges of being an entrepreneur. A recent article talks about how Lady Gaga represents a business success story that just about any aspiring entrepreneur can learn from. It doesn’t take a silver spoon to succeed at a [...]
Take Five: Betterment, Tax Credits and More
April 4th, 2011 Nichelle Betterment is one of the start-ups that presented at Finovate that I really liked. The New York Daily News talked to Betterment founder Jon Stein about how Betterment makes investing easy. Hospitality is their specialty: Accion is a nonprofit microlender that has seeded small businesses in the food, beverage and hospitality business. The New York [...]
Posted in business advice, investing, personal finance, small business Tags: accion, betterment 1 Comment »Making Internships Work Without Breaking The Law
April 19th, 2010 Nichelle Lynn Applebaum at City College of New York wrote an excellent post which gives guidelines on having interns. These are Lynn’s top five ways to manage an internship program successfully: At the time of application, provide a written description of the internship, including the skills required and nature of the work. Assign a supervisor (not [...]
