Archive for January, 2010

Can your business pass the unlimited paid leave test?

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Social Strata thinks it can pass the unlimited paid leave test.

The Seattle-based business, Social Strata, has been around for 13 years as a social media company (one of the ancients, in other words), and they’ve decided they’re ready for it. Just yesterday, on the Live Cloud blog (which they produced), Social Strata announced that it [...]

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Information Week goes digital

Monday, January 25th, 2010

The PDF version of Info Week is now available at the super-low cost of free.

Information Week is one of the two dozen or so magazines/newspapers I have read religiously over the last decade in various capacities. It has been such a rich resource of business technology news, that Steve and I had no qualms featuring [...]

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Create a free 23 part psychological profile of any public Twitter account

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

TweetPsych creates a profile of any public twitter account.

Ever wonder how your social networking “psychological profile” compares to that of other public twitter accounts? Now there is a site that does precisely at the low, low cost of free.
TweetPsych lists creates a psychological profile of any public Twitter account and compares it to the thousands [...]

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IPO’s lose their luster

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

More entrepreneurs are thinking that Sarbanes-Oxley is, in fact, for dummies.

All that glitters, it seems, is not golden. In a trend not totally related to recessionary pressures, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists are increasingly turning their back on the traditional brass ring of business startups, the initial public offering. Although we’ve all been saturated with stories [...]

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Malcom Gladwell lays down the laws of entrepreneurship . . .

Monday, January 18th, 2010

Malcom Gladwell explains the puzzling failure of Bill Gates and his promising startup company.

Malcom Gladwell has in the last few years become one of the favorite “elevator” intellectuals in the world of business and entrepreneurship. If you’ve ever been involved in a start-up, you’re intimately familiar with the “elevator speech,” the 30 second “kernel idea” [...]

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Shoestring Venture Kindle Version Now 99¢

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

We’re offering the Kindle edition for a buck!

To our Followers, Fans and Friends. You are getting this Press Release, before it goes out to the press. Thank you for your continued support…..
Declaring the 2010’s to be the “decade of the entrepreneur,” Shoestring Publishing is offering its flagship book, Shoestring Venture: The Startup Guide, for 99¢ [...]

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Seven business tips for upgrading your computer

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

New, new new! No, no, no!

Probably the most convenient aspect of blogging is that topics come knocking at your door, instead of the often-agonizing search for relevant topics when you’re on the hook for magazine or newspaper articles. And this week’s topic came a rapping at my door a week ago when my brand new [...]

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Shoestring Venture for 2010

Friday, January 1st, 2010

We wish you the greatest success and happiness for 2010.

Depending on how mathphilic or mathphobic you are, we have either entered the last decade of the naughties or the first decade of the twenty-teens. Either way, it seems we all have big plans to close out the decade (or start the new one) with [...]

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