Mini business vs. mega business
With the Long Tail redefining business and opening opportunities for small business growth, it is easy to forget what happens at the other end of the scale. With Google announcing that they have 550,000 activations of their cell phone operating system Android, per day, I almost fell of my chair. And that number is up from 500,000 per day just a month ago. If it is possible to keep growing like this, they will be at over a million activations per day in six months. And still, the sum of all business in the long tail is still greater than all the mega businesses...
read moreMaking the Jump – a five star book for the budding entrepreneur
Jeff Levy is a local Seattle entrepreneur and franchise owner. With many years in the business he has seen companies come and go, entrepreneurs that have succeeded and that have missed the mark. These experiences have given him the unique opportunity to amass a set of understandings and insights that he now is sharing in his newly published book Making the Jump into Small Business Ownership. If you thoughts are going towards shedding the thin veil of security provided by corporate employment and making a leap towards running your own business, and your life, this is a must-read book. You can...
read moreIs WordPress free, or not?
Everyone knows that WordPress is free, but is it really? Well, the software is open source and anyone can download it from http://wordpress.org and run it off their computer. And for anyone somewhat technically savvy, it shouldn’t be beyond reason to get an installation up and running. For the person who doesn’t want to do any installation, he or she can go for the quicker chioce of using http://wordpress.com which provides an already-running installation to use. So why do I even ask the question? Have you heard the expression “free as a puppy”? I.e. even if you get a...
read moreSocialTables, a new fun social tool for event organizers
A friend who knows I have a passion about networking and events-software just introduced me to http://socialtables.com, a new tool that is really fun and that I am sure will capture a lot of interest. In short, SocialTables allows an event organizer to layout the tables at the gathering, and then place the guests at their seats by simply dragging and dropping them in place. It is such a simple task to drag and drop the icons of the guests that I am sure many hours will be spent figuring out how to place people – becuase the hardest challenge still remains – who goes next to...
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