So you’ve escaped, or narrowly missed, corporate cubicle confinement, but now you’re met with some very different challenges. Sure, working from the home office certainly has its benefits, but many solopreneurs are surprised by confusing emotions resulting from a different type of confinement. If you’re not careful, your freedom will come at a cost
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Feed SubscriptionHow Meetup Helps Online Communities In The Real World
Meetup is a trend I get. It's easy to see how the Internet plus mobile can be leveraged to enhance the experiences you have in the real world.
Read More »San Francisco Gin Gets Personal
Whether you are an amateur or a die-hard gin drinker, San Francisco–based Distillery No.
Read More »Why Does Time Fly?
Everybody knows that the passage of time is not constant.
Read More »The Online Business Incubator
Wicked Start, an online incubator for early-stage start-ups, provides practical, no cost or low cost resources. A self-described "corporate refugee turned entrepreneur," Bryan Janeczko worked at Morgan Stanley before founding his own venture, an online prepared food vendor called NuKitchen.
Read More »Turning Negative Customers Into Positive Ones
It happens to the best of us. Sometimes we fail a customer
Read More »Why I Am Ashamed Of My Early VC Years
I recently ran into an entrepreneur on whose board I sat during my venture capital years. We awkwardly shook hands and then quickly slipped into a conversation that seemed to pick back up on the last one we had years ago. Back when I was the VC and he was the entrepreneur, we had been on opposite sides of a tense situation.
Read More »How HP’s WebOS Will Never Be Like Android
Hewlett-Packard is gearing up to launch the TouchPad tablet this week, but already CEO Leo Apotheker is thinking about what comes next. In an interview with Bloomberg Wednesday, Apotheker said the company is in talks with third parties to license WebOS, the software piloting its mobile devices. That should certainly raise red flags for Google , which has pinned the future of its mobile business on licensing its Android platform out to hardware makers such as Motorola and Samsung .
Read More »Why Google+ Will Make A Splash, Not A Wave, In The Community Pool
It's Facebook's world.
Read More »Discover Your Marketing Mindset
Do you believe that there exists a right way and a wrong way to market your business?
Read More »Changing the College Search Process, GenY-Style
Searching for the right college can be stressful, frustrating, and expensive. All those overnight visits; all those hours in the car with mom and dad; all that time spent with the odious Fiske Guide
Read More »Say What? Google Works to Improve YouTube Auto-Captions for the Deaf
Visitors to YouTube , which now boasts the Internet's second-largest search engine, have uploaded hundreds of millions of videos since its launch in early 2005. For most people YouTube (Google bought the video-sharing site for $1.65 billion in late 2006) is a valuable outlet for sharing personal videos, catching up on college lectures, consulting "how-to" clips and absorbing pop-culture nuggets like "Weird Al" Yankovic's parody of Lady Gaga
Read More »The Science of Fatherhood
A look at research into the paternal bond and how evolution and modern society combine to shape the experience of fatherhood [More]
Read More »The Boss Can Build Apps Now
Apprio's framework puts the geeky power to build iOS apps in the hands of any enterprise user. Goodbye, T&E reports. Hello, "ExpenseVille." Appirio's just released a software package that lets enterprise customers put together an iPad or iPhone app almost on a click-and-drag basis
Read More »Why Adding Photo-Sharing Makes Sense For Twitter
Rumors say Twitter will be expanding its core feature set. Here’s how that helps the company win.
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