Launching a business—creating something out of nothing—is a leap into the unknown. If a person were perfectly sane and followed all the "safe" rules, he or she wouldn't likely take that leap, suggests Barry J. Moltz, author of You Need to Be a Little Crazy: The Truth About Starting and Growing Your Business. We asked Moltz to share a few crazy ways to reshape your thinking to the mad-hatter world of entrepreneurship.
Golf great Tiger Woods jetted into Washington today to promote his upcoming AT&T National Invitational tournament as a potentially "historic" event meant to honor service members and their families. The tourney, to be held through the week of Independence Day at suburban Maryland's Congressional Country Club, promises to be a classic Washington event, mixing celebrities and politicians with athletes and thousands of military personnel, who can attend for free.
Getting lost seems so quaint now, with the friendly voices of GPS ready to calmly recalculate our routes—and for less than $200. That's a breakthrough price for navigation devices that are good enough for daily use in a car, including a new model from Mio that I've been testing.
AP - Robert Zoellick, a nimble negotiator who has crisscrossed the globe as President Bush's trade chief and as the country's No. 2 diplomat, is the White House's choice to be the next World Bank president. Bush will announce the decision on Wednesday, according to a senior administration official.
AP - A young mother who may have been depressed apparently hanged three of her small daughters and herself in a closet using pieces of clothing and sashes, authorities said Tuesday. A fourth child, an 8-month-old daughter, was also found dangling in the closet but was rescued by her aunt from the family's mobile home.
AP - Cindy Sheehan, the soldier's mother who galvanized an anti-war movement with her monthlong protest outside President Bush's ranch, said Tuesday she's done being the public face of the movement.
Federal health authorities are looking for people who may have been exposed aboard a plane to someone infected with a drug-resistant form of tuberculosis known as XDR-TB.
The Venezuelan government has opened an investigation into news broadcasters for allegedly inciting the Venezuelan public to violence over the government's decision not to renew the broadcast license of an opposition television station.