How to Start a Two-Bit Operation: Small Business Tips

Sure, it might sound like charity at first, but it’s all in how you angle it. Fundable is a new site that facilitates group fundraising for whatever purpose you might have in mind. Some standard examples:

Personal projects
Non-profit organizations
Group purchases (to get volume discount)
Group trips and outings

These are all fine, but how about using [...]

Guy Kawasaki just posted an MP3 recording from an event known as the Art of the Start, where well-known venture capitalists from Silicon Valley gather to discuss the business environment for startups and strategies for raising capital in various market sectors. You can download it here.

The recording lasts an hour and can be a [...]

I recently learned about LeapFish, a site which offers estimates on the value of any given domain name. For each domain they calculate a CVS (Combined Value Score), which is composed of a number of factors, including whether it’s a .com/.org/.net, how similarly it matches a dictionary word, and the number of search results on [...]

Fill out this survey and it says they will send you 2 movie “redeemable at your local theatre”. It’s worth a shot. I did it and it says it should arrive in within 2 weeks. It looks like they are trying to get you to move to Sun Ultra-Sparc IV server by [...]

A recent article in the New York Times by the acclaimed authors of Freakonomics(reading it now, I’m really enjoying it) casts an inquisitive eye on how elite levels of performance are achieved in a diverse range of areas from sports to music. While today’s mass media likes to tell the story of superstars unleashing [...]