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Phoenix Company Re-formulates Paint Without Toxins -- Even the Tints

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»

Will Flowtown Finally Solve the Small Business Marketing Problem?

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»

EmpowHer Launches Free Health Events for Women

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»

Riff on the Future of Music

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»

Riff on the Future of Music

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»

What's Necessary to Make a Sustainable Business?

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»

Seven Simple Ways to Get the Search Engines to "See" Your Site

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»

Jumping to Conclusions:The Next Generation of the Internet, as Seen by Silicon Valley

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»

Help Michigan: Buy What They are Going to Make

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»

Bootstrapping: Weapon of Mass Reconstruction

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»

If You Have Traction, You Can Get Funding in a Recession

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»

If You Have Traction, You Can Get Funding in a Recession

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»

Minority and Disadvantaged Businesses Need to Insist on Fair Treatment From Those who Need Them

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»

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