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This is embarrassing…(or when procrastination wins)

Has it really been 6 months since the last blog post?

It starts small with denial
At first it was just a few days and a few weeks.  We were busy working on a new website and with a consulting gig.  Productive and paying work trumps all (not that we don’t appreciate the few bucks a [...]

Closing Judy’s Book

Yesterday one of the funded startups that used to be in the local review space, Judy’s Book, decided that it was time to close shop. Judy’s Book started as a local review site where consumers could rate and review things like restaurants, dry cleaners, plumbers, etc., but back in January, they decided to change their [...]

Using that christmas feeling to give you a boost

Do you remember when you were a kid and couldn’t sleep the night before christmas because you wanted to wake up and open presents? That feeling of anticipation that lying there is just too boring. Is that the kind of feeling you have about your business?
All work and no play makes Jack a [...]

7 lessons to survive the next dot-com bust

Got your own online startup? Perhaps you’re building Zillow with millions in venture funding, or maybe it’s just you and your passion for furniture porn and other guilty pleasures. Either way, you’ll find something useful from the following list, which came straight from the mouth of a veteran online entrepreneur who’s [...]

Trying to Start a Food Fight and Telling the Menuism Story

One of the things we’re spending alot of our time on nowadays is publicity. And since we’re doing all this on a budget and doing it on our own, it’s been a very educational experience. For our publicity effort, the central message we’ve been trying to get out is the February Pancake [...]