There is a great opinion piece in the current issue of Conde Nast Portfolio about “why companies should forget social responsibility — and why we should let them”. I will look for a link later when I get online (found it). It is a great article and you should read it if you are interested [...]
There doesn’t seem like there was a whole lot of R&D dollars behind the announcements at MacWorld. I would imagine Intel paid the brunt R&D to get the chip smaller in the MacBook Air. Other than that there wasn’t much new tech, mostly just new software updates. Could it be that Apple is [...]
Rex Hammock has posted some thoughts on what he has termed Mediacasting. The basic gist is that “advertising” is the conversation with your customers. It is a conversation that is happening across a wide variety of communication channels on a wide range of devices. A key point is that the only barrier to entry is [...]
A couple of days ago I left Sprint for AT&T. Recently I posted that now is the wrong time to buy a new cell phone (as Chuck Bryant reminded me). So what changed?
First off, let me just say that there has not been a 180 shift in my position. For many people now is not [...]
I had lunch with a couple of the guys from StudioNow today. It got me thinking again about the value add good editors can provide in today’s world where we are all creating (blogs, pictures, videos, etc).
For those that don’t know, StudioNow is a local (Nashville) company that can take a bunch of raw creative [...]
Last year I wrote a post titled “I Will Buy Your Idea“. It was a tongue-in-cheek post that was trying to make this point:
Ideas have no monetary value. The worth is in the implementation.
Dane Carlson picked it up and posted this on his Business Opportunities Weblog:
“Finally, someone recognizes the true value of a great idea: [...]
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As part of the redesign of The Entrepreneurial Mind, Jeff Cornwall has released a set of financial spreadsheets for starting businesses. If you are thinking of starting a business, you will want to use these or something like these.
When we opened our first retail store we were given a similar spreadsheet tailored to the specific [...]
As you may or may not know, we are in the process of opening our second Plato’s Closet. This store is going to be in Murfreesboro, TN (one of the fastest growing communities in the area). When we first started thinking about business ownership we wanted to make sure that we were starting [...]
