Business Definition and 170 Threads

  1. Ivan Seeking

    News Faster Small Business & Retail Job Growth in States w/ Higher Minimum Wages

    http://www.fiscalpolicy.org/FPISmallBusinessMinWage.pdf
  2. Lisa!

    Dealing with Personal Boundaries at Work: Navigating Interference and Privacy

    How on Earth some of people are always interfering in everything!:bugeye:(am I interfering here?o:) ) So I don't know what's strange about me that my coworkers always talk about me more than anyone else and have lots of questions about me. :confused: They talk about my way of speaking...
  3. Ivan Seeking

    Navigating Business Worlds: Struggles of Scientists & Engineers

    I hate money! Obviously I want to have a lot of it so I'm no better than anyone else, but I hate the games that go with making money. A salesman once told me that it is the pursuit of wealth, and not wealth itself, that addicts people. I would certainly argue that point. But maybe this is the...
  4. JasonRox

    Start a Small Business Installing Floors & Painting

    Alright guys, I'm thinking about starting a small business. Nothing big though. It's kind of like that College Pro Painting thing, but with something more practical. I'm just looking into installing floors like Ceramic Tiles. I'll paint too, but it won't be my main focus. I just have...
  5. marcus

    How Can You Start a Business Selling Physics?

    http://inverse.physics.berkeley.edu/archives/001624.html there are several things I don't understand about this did anybody else see it?
  6. G

    News Business idea : selling live daggers to schoolkids. Looking for investors.

    Canada's supreme court decided this week it was okay for Sikh to wear their ceremonial Kirpan to school. They were judged to be no more dangerous than baseball bats or scissors, though they remain banned in airplanes or courtrooms. The religion is about 500 years old, originates from...
  7. M

    Gross Calls String Theory A Bizarre Science That Is A Dangerous Business

    From the Woit blog: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/blog/ The only physicist quoted who recognizes that the Landscape is pseudo-science is David Gross. “It’s impossible to disprove” he says, and notes that because we can’t falsify the idea it’s not science. He sees the origin of this...
  8. russ_watters

    News What's wrong with American Big Business?

    3 (if I get to it...) case studies: The auto industry, the airline industry, and the steel industry. I thought of this because recently I've had a number of conversations with friends/family about the problems with the auto industry - so I'll start with that... The big-3 auto makers (set...
  9. A

    Courses Florida Tech - Business courses?

    Hi, I recently switched from a Computer Science undergrad major at Florida Tech to Computer Information Systems. Basically because I like working with hardware, the internet, servers and networks a lot more than programming. CIS offers half Comp Sci courses (programming in C++ and Java but...
  10. Ivan Seeking

    The pleasure of not doing business

    I recently received a call from an old customer who seriously damaged my business. They are big and I made a lot of money doing work for them, but they are so demanding with constantly changing schedules, no end of travel, super-duper pressure situations, beyond belief deadline demands, not to...
  11. A

    What Is the Tension in Vine B for a Hanging Monkey?

    A 5.0 kilogram monkey hangs initially at rest from two vines, A and B. Each vine is 10 meters in length with negligible mass. Vine A is on the left with an angle of 30 degrees from the horizontal from the monkey and B is at 60 degrees from the horizontal of the angle next to the monkey. 1...
  12. Y

    I have begun my business at now 16 old

    I have begun my business at now 16 old... ----------------------------------------------------------------- I am 16 now, I have a Chinese general website, where has the info of Religions, supernatures, PDA, smartphones, CPUs, Computers, social views and my personal diary and views. Recently I...
  13. R

    How much is this renormalization business a problem in QFT?

    How much is this renormalization business a problem in QFT? Always read it’s complete ‘hand-waving’ and arbitrary, but also that QFT is the most precise theory ever. Also found this quote: "[Renormalization is] just a stop-gap procedure. There must be some fundamental change in our ideas...
  14. M

    Start a Drafting Business: What You Need to Know

    Does anyone here run a drafting business? I am in search of information on what I would need to start one, how it works, and all that and would appreciate reading about others personal experiences.
  15. Pengwuino

    Experiences with starting a business

    Im starting a business and i was wondering what your guyses experiences have been with businesses? What is the big cause for people not making it and what things do i need to consider when planning out the business? Also, what kind of scams should i avoid if there are any and what should i be on...
  16. S

    PhD in Physics to Management: What's the Best Path?

    I'm current a PhD student in physics with an emphasis in computational biophysics. However, I'm not sure a long, boring career in academia is for me. I'm thinking industry when I'm done but even then, I don't want to necessarily be stuck in a research scientist role for the rest of my life...
  17. E

    Schools Top US Universities for Undergrad Business Programs

    What Unis in America have a good UNDERgrad business programs.. I'm looking for anything really but is there any that have a international business program?.. any suggestions for other branches of business would be appriated (such as starting your own and doing well, knowing everything you can...
  18. Crumbles

    All this superconductor business

    [FONT=Verdana]I am new to superconductors and how they work. :confused: Could anybody maybe explain how currents actually arise in a superconductor? Is it just by placing the superconductor in a B-field that causes a current due to the expulsion of the external field (Messiner Effect)...
  19. D

    Tips for starting a business in electronics

    Any suggestion when it comes to starting a business in electronics (something with automotive)? With our current economy, jobs are hard to get.
  20. T

    Find Chapter Summaries for Fifth Business

    I need to find chapter sumaries for the book fifth business. sparknotes, booknotes, and the other places I've looked don't have any.
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