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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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The spreadsheet formulas every entrepreneur should know, Part One

Monday, August 10th, 2009

The Series
Introduction
1.) Internal Rate of Return
1a.) Modified Internal Rate of Return
2.) Net present value
3.) Payback
4.) Average
5.) Standard deviation
Bonus!) Excel Solver

If you’re like most entrepreneurs or business owners, you spend a fair amount of your productive poking away at some spreadsheet or other, but your demands of your spreadsheet program rarely go beyond its ledger or [...]

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Must-learn lessons from the Twitter hack attack

Sunday, July 19th, 2009

Heading up business news this week was the hacker attack on Twitter, who made off with some 310 sensitive corporate documents. But the biggest news in this attack for the rest of us is how darn easy it was. In a must-read article on TechCrunch, Nik Cubrilovic interviewed the hacker and published a general outline [...]

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