Swapping Employees; The 10 Best Commencement Speeches
Swap 'em if you got 'em. Today's Chicago Tribune... Read more
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The Beer's Great, But;
Let me start with a confession. Years ago, when I served a short stint as one of Boston's restaurant critics, I had one ironclad rule -- review in secret... Read more
Is Sam Zell an Entreprenuer?
Or is he just an investor? Maybe that's a silly question to ask, but I think it gets to the heart of what's happening at the Tribune Company. The ... Read more
The Cost of Starting Up
Entrepreneurs expect start-up costs to be rather modest, reports John Schmeltzer today in a Read more
How to Save Money, and Avoiding Survivor's Guilt
After the layoff. A Time Magazine article reports on the dangers of ... Read more
Plastic Shows Off a Reader and a New Growth Industry
A Kindle Killer? Plastic Logic, a startup that is developing a reading device that could compete with Amazon.com's Kindle, Read more
Entrepreneurial Networks
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How to Find Good People and Getting a Loan Gets Easier
How to find talent in unlikely places. What do people who make money by recruiting talented people do when the economy tanks? They keep recruiting,... Read more
Good News From the IRS; CEO's Go Prime Time
CEO's get ready for their closeup. Today's Chic... Read more
No Good Guys At Republic Windows
This is the blog post I wanted to publish today: Let us go Read more
Single Mother Wins $200,000 in Job Bias Case
Dena Lockwood says her employer fired her after she stayed home from work to care for a sick child. Read more
Job Description
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Arianna Huffington and Om Malick Share Their Tips on How to Blog
Arianna and Om go a bloggin'. Farhad Manjoo at Slate talks to half a dozen of his favorite bloggers and borrows the best tips from HuffPo... Read more
Green Banks, YouTube’s Demise, and Top Roadside Eats
Twittering in Tehran . No one really knows what's been happening in Iran over the past few days as protests and violence flare up in the wake of a d... Read more
What If We Used an Executive Search Firm to Pick a Prez?
I recently read an opinion piece by Steven Katz in the <... Read more
Apple Ousts Shady Developer; The Anti-Mario Barth
Inside the mysteries of Netflix's Chicago warehouse. Netflix has 58 warehouses nationwide, but only one serving greater Chicago's 10.6 million subs... Read more
Introducing... The Guide
I'd like to welcome you to The Guide, a new blog designed to give modern entrepreneurs the tools they need to stay at the top of their games. My name is A... Read more
How to Profit from Your Customers’ Gratitude
Insurers revoke policies to avoid paying high costs . A few days before a scheduled mastectomy, Robin Beaton's insurance company cancelled her polic... Read more
Calculating Startup Costs; Obama's Small-Biz PItch
How to calculate startup costs. The Wall Street Journal takes a page (literal... Read more
Say Hello to America's Fastest-Growing Companies
The secrets of the Inc. 500. Some of them piggy-backed on the Opra... Read more
Credit Cards Forced to Play Nice and the Facebook IPO
The government has your back (unless you're a credit card company). Serious talks are underway within the Obama administration to set up a Read more
Dubai’s Meltdown; The Biz Behind This Year's Hottest Toy
Meltdown in Dubai? The boom that put indoor ski slopes in the desert and man-made islands in the Persian Gulf looks to be coming to an end. Over th... Read more
Preparing For Out Future
We need a national commitment to modernize our skills as well as our industries. Without one, we face continuing unemployment, a further drop in productivity... Read more
Avoiding a Twitter Faux Pas; Ex-Jocks Face Trouble
Top 10 places to spend your golden years. As U.S. News and World Report puts it, entrepreneurs never really retire, they just move on to their next... Read more
Facebook Gets Into Payments and How to Use Social Media
A new growth strategy for Facebook? Facebook is gearing up to test a new payment platform, according to Read more
Your Goal for 2006? Maybe It Should be Retention
An article in today's Chicago Tribune asse... Read more
Digg's New Ad Strategy; Hyatt's Unnecessary IPO
Do you Digg that ad? The social news site Digg, which Inc. profiled last year, ha... Read more
Her Kind of Town
How landscaper Christy Webber (Inner City 100 2004's No. 54) mowed her way into the hearts of Chicago's elite. Read more
R&D in a Meltdown; Marketing that Taps into Obamamania
Don't hold back. Yes, the economy is in shambles, but be careful that you don't cut back too much--especially when it comes to developing new produ... Read more
Bad News for Travelers and Crowd-Sourcing 101
Airport screening company gets grounded. Monday night ... Read more
Ikea's Appeal
Something in Forbes' recent ranking of the world's richest billionaires truly shocked me. There at number four is Ingvar Kamprad, the 79-year-old Swede wh... Read more
Starbucks Undercover; How to Kill a Great Idea
The recession probably won't hurt your business. Say what? Scott Shane says there's a common curiosity about recessionary effects on start-ups, but... Read more
The 4 Percent That Counts; Getting VCs' Attention
Yelp conspiracy theories. Slate's Paul Smalera as... Read more
Yahoo Pulls the Plug on GeoCities; Android on the Rise
How to throw away $4 billion in 10 short years . When Yahoo purchased the pioneer... Read more
30 Days to a Better Blog; How to Handle Screw Ups
Steve Jobs returns to the stage . We were hoping he would, and he did. "I'm ... Read more
Newsgroups and Blogs
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Elevator Pitch: Conservative Café Wants to Take Coffee Back from Liberals
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Fabricated Facebook Scandals; LinkedIn’s New CEO
Facebook's creation myth through the Hollywood lens. The fact that former fiction writer Ben Mezrich sold his upcoming Facebook expose, The Acci... Read more
How To Find Travel Deals on Twitter
The blog Upgrade: Travel Better alerted me to a new tren... Read more
The Case Against Apple and 53 Tips to Boost Your Biz
The end of Apple? The latest email missive from entrepreneur and writer Jason Calacanis, ... Read more
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