If the air quality inside your house concerns you, you might want to think about the paint on the walls. A Phoenix startup, Green Planet Paints, has done that, and come up with what they think is a better way to ...READ»
Although the myth is that innovation doesn't happen in big companies, the reality is that corporations have a major role to play in fostering this crucial economic driver. Apple and Google have launched game-changing new enterprises, ...READ»
Danny Kessler, an American entrepreneur, has taken a year off from his business of teaching self-defense to women to visit South Korea and teach English. Here are his insights into a different world.READ»
Danny Kessler, an American entrepreneur, has taken a year off from his business of teaching self-defense to women to visit South Korea and teach English. Here are his insights into a different world.READ»
Most small businesses have it really rough. Whether they are retail or b2b, marketing is a huge problem for them because the can't do sponsorships, brand strategy, advertising and slick PR like the big boys. They've still got to get ...READ»
With the downturn in the economy, numerous people are talking about
starting a new business or company. Whether it’s a technology startup
or new restaurant idea, I’ve heard of more and more people meeting to
brainstorm and ...READ»
In the time of the great depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt, a
visionary President laid out a series of bold initiatives under the
plan famously known in the US history as the ‘New Deal’. The New Deal
was created mainly to ...READ»
There's a long story behind this launch post. I'm on the advisory board of EmpowHer.com,
a women's health site founded by a friend of mine, Michelle Robson, who
had an awful experience with the health care system and decided ...READ»
In the time of the recession, I hear more people discussing the need for ‘sustainable’ innovation. As the legendary venture capitalist Eugene Kleiner would say - Even turkeys can fly in a high wind. In the times of strong ...READ»
Rupert Murdoch’s comments this week about twitter had me thinking about the rationale behind his statement. Murdoch sees no monetary value and the future for twitter and predicts that the only successful business model on the web ...READ»
The business landscape and the economy as we know it is changing and it is changing fast. What you have is an endless collaborative opportunities, with an abundance of knowledge and free means at your disposal. How can an entrepreneur ...READ»
While I have been "celebrating" the recession in Silicon Valley, some of my buddies in Arizona have been working on a new product. Long-time friend and client Marc Williams of Bobcat Wizards and a team of trusted advisors will launch ...READ»
A couple of nights ago I had the prvilege to hear Tom Milsom, a 20-year-old musician play music for friends in my living room. A mutual friend had "discovered" him on YouTube. And he was wonderful.I wrote a blog post about that ...READ»
A couple of nights ago I had the prvilege to hear Tom Milsom, a 20-year-old musician play music for friends in my living room. A mutual friend had "discovered" him on YouTube. And he was wonderful.I wrote a blog post about that ...READ»
Information. Sustainability initiatives can’t succeed unless you
know where you are starting out, what you are doing, and where you are
going. Especially if the Obama Administration’s cap-and-trade bill
becomes law, ...READ»
Why do Americans need to attach creation myths to everything, including the origins of our most visible business ventures? We idealize the lone inventor over the company man, the garage over the office space. We tell the story of ...READ»
You can't just make a web site anymore and hope people will come. You can't even blog anymore and hope people will come, although good blogging software like Wordpress has built-in SEO (search engine optimization). You have to do ...READ»
For many reasons, I’m interested in the next generation Internet. Today I’m at Launch SIlicon Valley, watching ten companies in this space present their concepts.
I haven’t finished listening, but I have already jumped ...READ»
So what skills should a successful home-based franchisee or independent contractor/freelancer possess? Assuming we're all into working in our skivvies after all...READ»
It's everyone's patriotic duty to help Michigan. We are, indeed, at war, but it's not with terrorists, it's with the worst elements of ourselves.
I never thought I'd be saying this, but it has been a powerful day for me, a ...READ»
Sramana Mitra's Bootstrapping: Weapon of Mass Reconstruction
is a book for our time, because it's something real out of Silicon
Valley. No more stories about legendary VC fundings or startup-to-IPO
in six months. In this, the ...READ»
Last fall, I worked a little bit to advise a company called UserVoice, which was (and still is) a way for companies to get direct customer input and feedback about their products.
The founders of UserVoice are serious ...READ»
Last fall, I worked a little bit to advise a company called UserVoice, which was (and still is) a way for companies to get direct customer input and feedback about their products.
The founders of UserVoice are serious ...READ»
Today I delivered a web site to a small welding company in Phoenix, to whom I have served as a marketing consultant under a City-financed technical assistance program. They're the original mom and pop, and this was their first web ...READ»
Last fall, I worked a little bit to advise a company called UserVoice, which was (and still is) a way for companies to get direct customer input and feedback about their products.
The founders of UserVoice are serious ...READ»
