I’m fascinated by data Steve King of Small Business Labs published a couple of weeks ago in Comparing Small Business Owners and High-Growth Entrepreneurs. This makes perfect sense to me: I would expect the general small business owners — which makes me think of restaurants, car washes, hardware stores, dry cleaners, etc. — to be [...]
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Funny how the labels work: The lean startup tends to be called that because of a trendy and fast strategy, a lot of flexibility, and a high-powered startup mentality. Emphasize the phrase “high-powered.” But ultralight startups? That sounds to me like an extremely small and economical startup. I like the image it conjures. I think [...]
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Try this idea out: You’re starting your own business. It’s just you. You’ve already quit that other job, so you’re working on it all day, every day. Consider some of these options: The home office: You settle into a comfortable home office, work your computer, work your phones, and work your refrigerator. You take meetings [...]
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(Note: this is awkward. The list I linked to is down. I’ve emailed onlineuniversities asking about it, but in the meantime, it’s just not there. Damn. I’ve checked back at the TED site, hoping to provide a quick fix, and there does seem to be a good match with TED’s Not Business As Usual theme. [...]
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This collection of posts on my unretirement (I think I’m adopting Steve King’s term) came up this week, I guess because of the interview Romy Ribitzky did last week with me and my daughter Sabrina, about how I stepped down from managing the company to focus on blogging, writing, speaking and teaching instead. That was [...]
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About three years ago I attended a Web 2.0 conference at which a couple of professional venture capitalists and a couple of successful angel investors talked about trends. This was before the great recession, but in the middle of the explosion of web apps and social media. One thing that came up repeatedly, then, was [...]
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I like a thoughtful analysis that puts some conceptual order into larger sweeping trends. Take a quick read of The Medium–The Death of the Open Web on the NYTimes.com site, by Virginia Heffernan. She makes some very interesting points. People who find the Web distasteful–ugly, uncivilized–have nonetheless been forced to live there: It’s the place [...]
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I posted several times here on the disturbing hundreds of thousands of jobs lost per month as we fell into the great recession in late 2008 and early 2009. So it’s a relief to see that last month the economy added jobs. I got this from MSNBC, with thanks to Steve King of SmallBizLabs, who [...]
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Obviously there are a lot of good top 10 trends lists for small business, social media, technology and all, as seems to happen every year at this time. I’ve seen a lot of them, and I recommend Steve King’s Top 10 Small Business Trends for 2010 from Small Business Labs, posted yesterday. One big point [...]
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With the high-tech world all abuzz about tablet computing, I enjoyed Steve King’s Lessons from OLPC post today, about the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) initiative and its version of the tablet computer Steve put the illustration shown here on his Small Business Labs blog post. Here’s his summary of the design specifications: Their new [...]
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