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Eve Tahmincioglu

Primary author Eve Tahmincioglu has been covering small business and entrepreneurship for more than a decade. She regularly writes about small business issues for the New York Times and BusinessWeek's SmallBiz magazine. She also writes the Your Career column for MSNBC.com. She is the author of "From the Sandbox to the Corner Office."



July 2007 - Posts

Mom entrepreneurs need to get over themselves

Posted: Monday, July 30, 2007 4:45 PM by Eve Tahmincioglu
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What the heck is wrong with the word entrepreneur? It’s a perfectly good word that has been around for a long time.

But nooooo, we can’t seem to leave well enough alone. It turns out moms who come up with a great business idea are no longer entrepreneurs. They are “mompreneurs”. CONTINUED >>

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So you thought minimum wage talk was over...think again

Posted: Friday, July 27, 2007 12:01 AM by Eve Tahmincioglu
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You knew it was coming. With all these presidential candidates out there looking for new stuff to pontificate about, minimum wage just had to get into the mix -- again.

Earlier this month, Sen. John Edwards made it clear he’s not happy with the minimum wage hike approved by Congress this year, which went into effect Tuesday. The move will boost the minimum hourly rate to $7.25 over two years from $5.15 beforehand.

Edwards wants more, and he sees a more robust increase as a way to combat poverty. His proposal: boost it to $9.50 by 2012. CONTINUED >>

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For many small business owners, health care system is "Sicko"

Posted: Monday, July 23, 2007 1:09 PM by Eve Tahmincioglu
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I recently saw Michael Moore’s health care tragedy film “Sicko” and it got me thinking: What about a "Sicko" just about small business owners?

There’s a scene where Moore takes former 9/11 rescue workers, who can’t afford U.S. medical care, on a small boat to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. His mission, albeit a futile one, is to get those poor ailing workers the same care now given to suspected Al Qaeda prisoners at the facility.

Moore should have taken along a boatload of entrepreneurs with him. Actually, he would have needed a cruise ship, maybe 10. CONTINUED >>

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