Don’t get so wrapped up in work that you forget to stay up with the current events of the business world! Amid all of the chaos, grab a cup of Joe and take a short reading break.
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This week’s Everyone’s Business addresses Jay-Z’s business savvy, Dubai’s Lambo’s and Seth Godin’s general amazingness.
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Every Friday, we’ll be aggregating a few great articles from the week. 1. Entrepreneur talked with Indiegogo‘s Slava Rubin about some of the myths of entrepreneurship. 2. Likeable Media founder Carrie Kerpen wrote an article in Inc. Magazine on why she believes other women might be a woman’s greatest obstacle in the workforce. 3. A bit of a downer, [...]
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(Sung to the tune of the old blues song, God Bless the Child (That’s Got His Own)) It’s a simple concept, really: own your own content. It’s like owning your own home. In web terms, that’s owning your own domain. My thanks to Liz Strauss for this back-to-basics common-sense reminder, posted yesterday, called Why It’s [...]
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Old saying: “I don’t know art, but I know what I like.” I was surprised to read that a Palo Alto, Calif., venture capital firm had invested in an art business. And perhaps it’s the surprise element that has this one featured recently in Business Week and The New York Times. It’s an $825,000 VC [...]
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Health care, loans, SBA, job creation … have you noticed that the public discussion on all of these business-related topics is very far off base? Doesn’t it seem like the talking heads choose sides first, then recite talking points? And that the result is no real communication or discourse, because it’s all predetermined. Tell me [...]
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Darren Dahl brought back some bad memories with his A Small-Business Guide to Intellectual Property in The New York Times last week. Not that his story is off base, either: He seems to have things pretty much straight. Even so, he may be way too optimistic. Out here in the real world, from my experience [...]
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Trends: solopreneurs, the new artisan economy, social media, a lot of one-on-one relationships, the long tail, splitting larger groups into smaller groups. More channels, each of them more focused. With that in mind: For many mom-and-pop shops with no ad budget, Twitter has become their sole means of marketing. It is far easier to set [...]
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I’m an entrepreneur, I love a podium and a microphone, but I hate cocktail parties. When I was at business school and they talked about networking, I shuddered. I wanted to go home to my wife and kids. If it takes networking to be successful, I decided, then I’d just be less successful. Things got [...]
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