Good piece from Scott Allen on passive income, every entrepreneur’s best friend.

Looking for ways to write a blog that’s twice the drivvel that I have here?  It won’t be tough, but if you need a little help- Tim Berry has some great ideas – http://timberry.bplans.com/2010/07/10-blogging-tips-my-1000th-post-on-this-blog.html

Katherine Ryder takes a shot at the Fed’s recent push for small business lending -  and while I agree with her, she provides no alternative solutions to help small biz.  I can think of a couple  – plowing those funds into tax breaks, making it easier and more afforadable to find small business health coverage, or just giving me the money.

Need a little mind exercise for your Friday – check out one of the better small business quizes courtesy of Steve Srauss at USA Today.

A quick primer on what the Financial Reform package might mean to you – of special interest to entrepreneurs will be the changes to swipe/interchange fees.

When the subject of passing things down to the kids comes up, it sure is nice when they own the Yankees to begin with.  But there are actually a couple nice stories in here to take some lessons from. 

Finally, the unofficial danbeenken.com video of the week, I was thinking of some Bonnie Tyler to go along with the storm hitting Florida, but I just couldnt bring myself to do a total eclipse of the heart.  So with that out there as a freebie, here is Dylan doing a little “Hurricane”