I Can?t Find Funding. Is My Idea Dead? No, Consider a Campaign to License!

Most inexperienced entrepreneurs are unaware of the many options and alternative strategies available to push a new idea or invention to market. The most common approach they seek to implement is a classic funding round. When this avenue fails, and with overwhelming frequency it does, the idea often is dropped.  Driven inventors attend invention trade … Read more

Shade Tree and Consumer Advocacy Group- Teaming Up for the Community

This is the time of year where we all like to think a little further outside of ourselves than we may do throughout the rest of the year. Whether just dropping our spare change into a Salvation Army bucket or donating to charities in the names of our loved ones, we all get a bit … Read more

First Steps For Your Home Business

So you have just started your first home business. Congratulations now the real work begins. No matter what anyone or any company may have promised you before you signed up, building a successful home business will take work. Many home business companies will promise you the world and not deliver anything. I truly believe it … Read more

The Ultimate Goal of Living Debt Free

The goal of debt free living is attainable for people of all ages.  No matter what your income, no matter what level of debt you may have, with a little elbow grease and a huge commitment to change, you could be on your way to a debt free lifestyle in no time.  Of course anything … Read more

New Zealand’s Hedge Fund Managers Weathered The Financial Crisis Best

Opalesque, the world’s largest subscription-based publisher covering the alternative investment industry, has launched the 29th issue in a series of regional roundtable forums- Opalesque 2010 New Zealand Roundtable. The 27 page Roundtable can be downloaded for free at http://www.opalesque.com/RT/RoundtableNZ2010.html. Two years after launching the Opalesque Roundtable Series in 2008 in Auckland, Opalesque founder Matthias Knab … Read more