I just finished reading a Jeff Benedict’s book “How to Build a Business Warren Buffett Would Buy: The R. C. Willey Story.” If you don’t live in Utah, Nevada or Idaho, R.C. Willey is a chain of home furnishing super stores that dominates the markets it serves in those states.
R.C. Willey is famous for [...]
Posted on May 6th, 2009 by Nathan Gwilliam
Filed under: Book Reviews, Business Management, Leadership, Mergers & Acquisitions | 2 Comments »
Ward Andrews recently asked me which ad networks are the best to maximize revenues for website publishers. The following blog entry is a modified version of my email to him.
First, selecting the best ad network often depends on the niche of your site. For example, if you have developed a classic cars site [...]
Posted on May 28th, 2008 by Nathan Gwilliam
Filed under: Advertising, Internet Marketing, Mergers & Acquisitions, e-Business | 3 Comments »
It appears that as investors have pulled their money out of the stock market that Internet acquisitions have become popular again. We’ve been inundated with news Microsoft’s attempted purchase of Yahoo, Yahoo’s bluff, Microsoft walking away, and most recently billionaire Carl Icahn’s purchase of 50 million Yahoo shares in an attempted hostile takeover of [...]
Posted on May 15th, 2008 by Nathan Gwilliam
Filed under: Mergers & Acquisitions | No Comments »
I have implemented a new Subscribe feature which allows readers of this blog to subscribe for free and be emailed when new posts are added.
This new feature is powered by FeedBurner and only took a few minutes to implement. Not only does this service send my subscribers updates via email, but it also provides [...]
Posted on April 3rd, 2008 by Nathan Gwilliam
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Last Monday I began a 2-year MBA program at Brigham Young University, and all of last week I participated in an intensive, full-time introduction to the program. I was thoroughly surprised and impressed by the quality of the teaching and am excited to be able to be able to learn from such high-quality professors.
Some [...]
Posted on August 5th, 2007 by Nathan Gwilliam
Filed under: BYU Marriott School, Business Management, Entrepreneurship, Ethics, Mergers & Acquisitions, Self Improvement | No Comments »