Entrepreneur Eileen P. Gunn writes about taking time off from her new family travel website to go to Germany with, you guessed it, her family. It’s just before 8:00 in the morning on the 13th day of a 19-day vacation
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Captain Greg Davis is an outstanding fishing guide.
Read More »Creative Perserverance
Laurence Hallier, founder and CEO of Show Media, shares how a positive culture and creative sales strategies overcame the perceived limitations of a shrinking advertising market.
Read More »"Person Of Interest" Creator Jonathan Nolan Isn’t Paranoid–Or Is He?
“There are apps that ask what your mood is, or track the transmission of disease," says Nolan, whose new, J.J. Abrams-produced drama premieres tomorrow on CBS.
Read More »Occupy Wall Street: Tahrir Over Here?
Yahoo blocked emails related to the ongoing protests on Wall Street.
Read More »Wieden + Kennedy Tech Incubator Picks Its Startup Class of 2011
Wieden bakes major brands and the Portland tech community into a fresh PIE. When Wieden + Kennedy launched its tech incubator, the Portland Incubator Experiment in 2009, the effort proved a fruitful collaboration between the ad agency and local tech talent; it even spawned a few going tech concerns
Read More »Netflix CFO David Wells On Qwikster Rebranding, Lowering Prices, Subscriber Loss, Blockbuster, Starz
Netflix must feel like captain Billy Tyne in the The Perfect Storm: Just went it's hit by one massive wave, another one soon drowns the company from any possible respite.
Read More »Is Less Really More?
A new study finds evidence to support the idea of 'less is more'. Here's why scaling your company with fewer clients may just contribute to your company's long-term health.
Read More »Time For Apple To Kill The iPod
Yes, the game-changing device still accounts for about 7 percent of quarterly revenues. But Apple's money could be better spent elsewhere. Here's why and where
Read More »Designing A Program To Predict People’s Irrational Pedestrian Decisions
SAFEPED is a traffic simulator that takes into account how human beings make predictions about speed and distance, so planners can see exactly where people are going to run into the street.
Read More »How To Catch A Poacher? DNA
New techniques in DNA retrieval from dead animals might change the balance in the often fruitless quest to stop the poaching of endangered species.
Read More »Life After Fast Money And Fast Food
The founder of the Slow Money movement makes the case for the kinds of return on investment you get when you put money into your local community. Is there such a thing as money that is too fast, companies that are too big, investments that are too abstract and securities that are too complex
Read More »Go Mobile, Reach Customers
If you’re a small business owner with customers on the go, or employees that work in the field or remotely, you may want to provide them with a mobile app to connect with your business.
Read More »How to Create 100 Start-ups
A New York nonprofit offers money, mentorship, and community to young, underprivileged, urban entrepreneurs. A couple years ago three serial entrepreneurs got together to create a different kind of entrepreneurial venture: a nationwide community that would foster small-business ownership among minorities, and those from low-income areas of America's biggest cities. The result: 100 Urban Entrepreneurs , a nonprofit foundation headquartered in New York that hosts city events where entrepreneurs can pitch start-up business ideas to judges, meet mentors, apply for funding—the best ones get a $10,000 grant—or just sit in the audience and learn from other aspiring entrepreneurs
Read More »Word-Of-Mouth Marketing: We All Want To Keep Up With The Joneses
It was close to midnight, Pacific Standard Time, as one truck after another crept down a quiet, gated village road in the heart of Laguna Beach, one of the most beautiful oceanside communities in Southern California (as well as one of the most affluent and most expensive). Most of the ornate, sprawling stucco houses were in shadows, their owners asleep--with the exception of the very last house on the block. Considering the time of night, it was unusual to see one, let alone several, vehicles on the road
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