dboerner on September 29th, 2009

The World Bank is publishing a website that “provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 183 economies and selected cities at the subnational and regional level.”  The website covers topics such as Starting a Business, Licenses, Registering Property, Getting Credit, Trading Across Borders, Enforcing Contracts, and Protecting Investors.
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dboerner on April 22nd, 2009

Sorry for the delay in posting…my world has been very busy lately.  Thought I’d throw in a quick post and list some enterpreneur websites that might be useful.   Since I’m in a hurry, I’m only writing a description if really needed.  You can check it out for yourself and let me know which sites you like.
http://www.entrepreneur.com
http://marketing.about.com   [...]

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dboerner on April 1st, 2009

Trying to figure out rules of business etiquette in Botswana?  Check out the TCU database, Global Road Warrior.  It covers lots of other areas too: Business Women, Money and Banking, Travel Essentials, Country Facts, etc.
Wanting an investment overview of Bangladesh?  Try the TCU database, CountryWatch.  Click on the “Country Reviews” tab at the top.  It [...]

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dboerner on February 18th, 2009

Our census bureau has kindly created a page of links (listed alphabetically by country) into the statistical agencies of other countries.  A great resource if you are researching another country!  Nuf said.

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dboerner on February 11th, 2009

Sorry guys & gals for the somewhat misleading title.  I am not connecting entrepreneurship and expenditure patterns.  However, I am providing a link to a report called the Monthly Labor Review which contains several reports (including one on entrepreneurship and one on expenditure patterns).
The pdf is lengthy, but it contains several reports (I am paraphrasing [...]

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I had a question in a class about this and didn’t really have an answer.  Now I have an answer.
Here’s the short version for those in a hurry (click on the hyperlinked text to get the complete answer directly from the census bureau with a cherry on top!):
Census tracts are subdivisions of a [...]

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dboerner on October 14th, 2008

The government has created a one-stop shop for small business information at www.business.gov.  The Small Business Administration and 21 other federal agencies have combined efforts to bring you pertinent small business information in one location.  I could write on and on about the various features, but thought I’d just provide a screen shot. (I’m new [...]

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