News | Small Business | People | Management | Careers | Marketing | Audio Books | Sports Business

Business and Author Sports Articles

7 Key Lessons from The $100 Startup



Steve Jobs Quotes: Life Lessons from the Entrepreneur of Apple

Steve Jobs passed away on October 5, 2011 after his rollercoaster like life. He left lots of good things for us.  He was a great inventor and a innovative computer entrepreneur. 

He left us great inventions such as a personal computer, iPod, iPhone and iPad.  He also left us great inspirational quotes.  Here are the great quotes by Steve Jobs.

 

Steve Jobs Quotes AppleYour time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
~ Steve Jobs

Audiobooks: Top 7 Reasons to Create an Audiobook Today



The audiobook market is booming over the last few years.  Companies like ACX and Amazon are making it easier for any author to have their books produced into audio format for little to no up-front financial investment.


Audiobooks are growing in demand over the last decade as the internet and smart phones make it much more advantageous for people to have an audio version of their favorite books.  They are quickly replacing radio as the thing to do during your daily commute. 


I've made one. You can too.

Will self-publishing make traditional publishing dead?

As the internet continues to grow at a pace no one really could have imagined, there is growing skepticism that it will be able to maintain it's phenomenal pace.  

 

One debate gaining particular traction is that of whether or not self-publishing will make the traditional news media obsolete.  While many are of the opinion that, in the not so distant future, a model of free author generated content will make standard news gathering organizations irrelevant - we believe that this will not be the case for three particular reasons.  Financing, journalistic expertise, and an aging population will have a tremendous effect on the emergence of self-published literature.

Sports Business: Increasing Player Salaries and the United States Labor System

Over the past 40 years-- the period of increasing economic inequality that former Slate writer Timothy Noah called "The Great Aberration"-- American's earnings have actually not expanded whatsoever, in dollars when adjusted for inflation. 

However, Major League Baseball player earnings have actually increased twenty fold in real bucks: the ordinary major-league salary in 2012 was $3,213,479. The income disparity between ballplayers and their fans closely resembles the rising discrepancy between CEO’s and their employees, which grew during the same period from about 25-to-1 to 380-to-1.

Baseball Player Salaries Unions 

Top teams ($ in millions)

  1. New York Yankees... 232,998,561
  2. Los Angeles Dodgers... 223,867,196
  3. Philadelphia Phillies... 170,353,189
  4. Boston Red Sox.. 152,028,000
  5. Detroit Tigers 145,989,500
    Source:  News Day Sports
     

    News

    |

    Small Business

    |

    People

    |

    Management

    |

    Careers

    |

    Marketing

    |

    Audio Books

    |

    Sports Business