aclJohn's Business Finds

"Dragons' Den" has raised awareness of some of the many start-ups trying to get funds; PlanCruncher is an online tool that streamlines part of the process by letting users create a short business plan without writing lots of paragraphs.

PlanCruncher...

• makes use of...
  • creative icons and
    
  • an easy-to-read design to get the message across;
• asks users to fill in 6 different sections...
  • Idea;
  • Team;
  • Product;
  • Revenue;
  • Funding; and
    
  • Partnership.
    

Users...

• choosing icons that represent ...

Brightbook has the potential to be used as a teaching tool for those who need hands-on book-keeping experience and/or for Informal Adult Learning for "Community Group/self-employed Book Keeping" courses.

The aims of Brightbook are to provide an easy way for small business owners to keep their monthly accounts in shape. The whole premise is providing users with an application that is free from specialised accountancy jargon, and its list of features is aimed directly at such individuals.

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I'm not going to enter the debate about is 2010 the start of a decade or the last year of a decade but, The Guardian has produced a Decade in Business infographic.

The Decade in Business is comprised of 120 images representing various business stories from the past ten years.

• Click on any image in the infographic to learn more about that story.
• Most stories are based in Europe; some have a more global basis.

Practitioners of business related courses and/or economics may find The Decade...

• Barcode Label Printer <http://www.barcodesinc.com/generator/index.php> and
• Barcode Generator <http://terryburton.co.uk/barcodewriter/generator/>

...that allows users encode information (text, phone number etc) into a barcode label. That Information, behind the barcode label, can then be read by a standard barcode scanner or a mobile phone with reader software.

Online Barcode Reader, on the other hand, lets you decode and read the information be...