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The Register (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Says new suite more sweet for SMBs Canonical has signed an agreement with Unison Technologies to offer a complete unified communications suite for small to medium-sized firms running Ubuntu Linux.…
Small Business Trends (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
More and more vendors are introducing Cloud platforms and software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings to bring people together online. Don’t let industry terms like “Cloud platforms” and SaaS confuse you, however. All this means is that people are using software applications that are Web-based, to work together. The purpose of these collaborative software systems is to mimic the [...]
Seeds of Growth (Free subscription) | yesterday
Good news in the, "if you use them as examples, good things might happen" category. Daily Candy , poster child for permission marketing, sold for $125 million today. and CDBaby, my favorite ideavirus/music industry pioneer, just sold for a billion simoleons to the folks that also own the cutting edge duplicator, Oasis . Three companies that really pushed against the status quo to carve out important...
Small Business Trends (Free subscription) | yesterday
George Langan is the latest addition to the line-up of guest expert contributors here at Small Business Trends. George is someone I’ve known for years, having worked with him as part of the same executive team several years back. We’ve stayed in touch off and on over the years, from Cleveland, to Salt Lake City [...]
Seeds of Growth (Free subscription) | yesterday
More crowdsourced innovation! A startup based in Portland aims to harness the creativity of the crowds to build a new sneaker brand. Ryz , which is still in beta, lets users submit graphic designs for a high-top sneaker model. Members vote for their favourite designs, and the sneakers that get the most votes are taken into production. Designers receive a one-time payment of USD 1,000 plus one dollar...
Seeds of Growth (Free subscription) | yesterday
You may have missed the first two days of my tweeting meaty and super-tight takeaways from Donald Keough’s Ten Commandments for Business Failure . No worries, I got ya covered. Catch-up by reading and scrolling below. And feel free to play along by following me on Twitter this week. This experiment ends Friday. Promoterz is the hands-free, word-of-mouth marketing service that takes care of the details...
Small Business Trends (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ebooks (books and reports that you download over the Web in PDF form) have become popular. Many an aspiring entrepreneur looking to create a business leveraging the Web has either created an eBook or considered it. I know I have. If this sounds like you, please read my 2-part interview with Aaron Wall, founder [...]
Seeds of Growth (Free subscription) | yesterday
Are consumers responsible for the behavior of marketers? Why does spam exist? Because (some) people respond to it. Why are ineffective pharmaceuticals so heavily marketed? Because (some) people demand that doctors prescribe them. Why are so many local stores struggling? Because so many customers cross the street to the big box stores. I've maintained for years that marketing is so powerful that marketers...
Seeds of Growth (Free subscription) | yesterday
Visitors to many of Europe's cities can now get elaborate walking tours for free, thanks to Sandeman's New Europe Tours . Available in London, Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Paris and Madrid, each tour begins at a central meeting place and lasts two to four hours as it provides an overview of the city's sights. In London, for example, two free tours are available—one focusing on the...
Seeds of Growth (Free subscription) | yesterday
Because patent attorneys charge many thousands of dollars to prepare and file a patent application, some people with the next bright idea opt for the "poor person's patent" (call it the three Ps), which is simply to write up a patent-like description and send it to themselves by registered mail or to pay a notary public to seal it in an envelope. According to Kirk Teska, author of Patent Savvy for...
Seeds of Growth (Free subscription) | yesterday
You know how I feel about young venture capitalists, right? If you don't, read this . Having written this, I still have an open mind, and this morning young Matt Winn told me about a tool he created called the VCDB (venture capital database). Indeed, you should check out this tool because it's quite useful. You can enter "bio keywords" and find venture capitalists. You can also enter locations, and...
Seeds of Growth (Free subscription) | yesterday
When I travel, I watch CNN in the evenings to catch up on things since I watch so little TV at home. Tonight I noticed a TV commercial promoting HR Professionals.... It was so boring! This is not what the HR profession needs. If they want to help improve what people think about HR professionals, putting a lifeless commercial on CNN is not what they should be doing. Get HR folks who are doing cool...
Seeds of Growth (Free subscription) | yesterday
Kevin Kelly - Cool Tools: For anyone requiring reading glasses intermittently, these specs are heaven sent! The frame breaks in the front and clicks together once resting on your nose by way of two magnets. When not in use, they stay out of the way -- the glasses have a hard frame 'loop' that slips around your neck. As soon as you need them, you reach down and pull them up into place. I've tried lanyards...
Small Business Trends (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
I was over visiting the Small Business CEO site and happened to notice a blog post I couldn’t help but read: Candle Wax + Rising Fuel Costs = Zero Profit Not only did the title catch my eye, but the name of the author did also. It turns out to be an article written by Amanda [...]
Seeds of Growth (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
I am a social constructivist - one who believes that reality is socially constructed. And so I believe that if you change conversations, you change reality. Check out this great post by fellow Seattle blogger and pal Curt Rosengren called Reinvent your story. Reinvent your world . One of the book ideas I had way back when was to create a user friendly version of Social Construction of Reality . It...
