The Venture Edge

I just LOVE top-10 lists. There's just something about them that get my attention every time. So today I'm going to double the fun by offering up Springwise's top-20 list of new business opportunities for 2011. If you've been feeling stuck in a rut in your current business, or if you've been looking for a business opportunity that offers a lot of upside potential, then this might be just the list for you.  

As often happens when the economy goes sour and unemployment is on the rise, many people get serious about putting their back-burner dreams of starting a business into motion. It's no surprise, therefore, that the number of articles in the press about this latest wave of "accidental" entrepreneurs is on the rise.

I'm not really a follower of American Idol and it's mean-spirited producer/judge Simon Cowell.  And I've never seen the British counterpart "Britain's Got Talent" until this morning when a colleague sent out a YouTube link that I would like to pass along because it speaks so well to the idea of persistence and to the power of talent to win out in the end.