Rochester Entrepreneurs Resource

March 22, 2005

Unemployment Doesn't Translate to Self-employment

Why is it that lots of unemployed professionals doesn't translate to lots of new businesses? Excerpts from an article at Inc.com.

February 07, 2005

Study shows best places for small business

Study shows best places for small business - bizjournals.com lists the best cities and towns for small business, as rated by American City Business Journals. The highest ranking city in New York is ... (drum roll please!) ... Poughkeepsie, NY!...

Top Ten States for Small Businesses in 2005

Here's a blog article that made it into the national media. SurePayroll Announces Top Ten States for Small Businesses in 2005 contains state rankings that were mentioned on the radio today, mostly because New York was not in the list....

January 04, 2005

Mars Rover Still Going Strong

I'm sure you've already heard that the Mars Rovers are still working (far longer than had been planned), but even so this article on LinuxInsider should be an inspiration, especially for those of us who like Space stories. I seem...

December 30, 2004

The Year According to EBay

This article at USA Today gives an interesting perspective on what people were really interested in buying and selling this past year. Between the descriptions of the Virgin Mary cheese sandwich and rocker Bryan Adams' unwashed socks, you'll find interesting...

December 28, 2004

New Technology Measures Document Intent

According to this article on Sci-Tech Today, Steven Harrington at Xerox, J. Fernando Naveda at RIT, and Rhys Price Jones at IBM are developing the science of what documents mean -- and intend to mean. They hope to automate the...

Proposed Elimination of Deduction for State Taxes

The Bush administration has been talking about scrapping the federal deduction for state and local taxes as part of a broader plan to revamp the nation's tax system. New York, which currently has the second-highest income tax rate, would be...

December 17, 2004

Google Partners with Oxford, Harvard & Others to Digitize Libraries

Google is working with libraries at the University of Michigan, Harvard University, Stanford University, Oxford University and the New York Public Library to digitize books in their collections and make them accessible via Google Print. Find out more... While this...

December 15, 2004

Catching the fire

I heard this report on WXXI about the volunteer effort to place an ad in the NY Times for the free "Firefox" browser. On looking into it further I discovered that the effort (which was wildly successful, by the way)...