Carnival of the Capitalists

Carnival of the Capitalists for January 22, 2008

This week’s guest host of the Carnival of The Capitalists is Mike from PartnerUp, the social network for entrepreneurs.

Mike’s Carnival of The Capitalists:

In an effort to keep as high of a signal-to-noise ratio as possible this week, I choose to go with quality over quantity. The posts that made the cut for this week’s carnival are all very insightful and well worth the read.

Also, I’ve never included an ordinary article in the carnival before, but this week Rob at BusinessPundit pointed out a great article by one of my favorite sites, Forbes.com Entrepreneurs, about the most and least profitable businesses to start. I found the list interesting and inspirational, so I included it in the carnival.

Human Resources
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John Phillips presents Are psychologists dumb? posted at The Word On Employment Law.

Susan Heithfield presents How to Manage a Deadbeat Employee at About.com Human Resources Blog.

Internet/Technology
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Mike presents Complete list of 2007 web/tech acquisitions posted on The StartUp Blog.

Nikole Gipps presents Gas Stations Don’t Need Blogs posted at Small Business Essentials.

Mark presents TBS to Operate NBA Digital Assets posted at SportsBiz.

cehwiedel presents Disintermediation and Web 2.0, a look at a Web 2.0 buzzword (disintermediation) from the POV of content creators posted at Prosthetic Device.

The Economy
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Gavin Ingham presents Selling In A Recession - Why Some People Are Going To Crash And Others Are Going To Fly posted at Gavin Ingham.

Entrepreneurship
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Maureen Farrell presents The Most And Least Profitable Businesses To Start on Forbes.com Entrepreneurs.

Wayne Hurlbert presents Home offices: Capitalism helping the environment posted at Blog Business World.

That’s it for this week’s edition. Thanks to Mike for hosting, and helping work out finer points of how a guest host/editor for editions posted here could work effectively.

Be sure to visit PartnerUp and The Startup Blog there, where they hosted the October 29, 2007 edition of Carnival of the Capitalists.

In keeping with the new format, next weeks edition will again appear here, in the capable hands of C.E.H. Wiedel, previously seen hosting the December 3, 2007 edition of Carnival of the Capitalists at One Man Band.

Suggest entries via bizosphere@gmail.com if you see or have written a great business or economics post. Please include a brief description, as well as the link, naturally. That might help sell it if we’re not sure about including it, in addition to helping us follow it if the topic is esoteric from our perspective. We’re still monitoring thecotc@gmail.com, so no worries if you submit the entry there instead.

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