I've written before about how the small business haters have it all wrong. Now comes a study that puts new economic muscle behind this assertion, revealing that solopreneurs and other independent workers generated over one trillion dollars in income in the past year....
Ever feel like you're reading the same stuff over and over again? Writing is easy. Identifying topic "buckets" is easy. Developing fresh content (and resisting the urge to just recycle the social media meme-of-the-day) is harder. A lot of bloggers end up taking the...
The great Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa once told my mother that the most important thing that ever happened to him happened when he was a little boy. He learned to read. Yup, that resonated with me. October 16 is Blog Action Day, and the theme for this year is...
Apparently Twitter has decided to form an all-white, all-male board as its first public act as a soon-to-be public company. Really, we have to have this conversation again? This isn’t about leaning in, or leaning out, or leaning sideways. It’s not about feminism, the...
Voyager 1 has left the solar system. It’s the first man-made object to reach interstellar space. While you’re still absorbing that (admit it--WOW), let me tell you what makes this even more amazing: Voyager 1 has less computing power than the original IBM personal...
Web Site 3.0 has officially launched! Web sites have come a long way. In a relatively short period of time, we’ve gone from corporate brochures in a URL to dynamic, rich, responsive showcases for our businesses and our communities. Web Site 1.0 was a corporate...
Pricing--products, services, consulting rates--can be challenging for many businesses. Price too high and you risk losing business you want to win. Discount too often or too much, and people think your product is cheap or you're for sale. You need to sell value, not...
Melinda Wittstock gave a terrific peek behind the venture capital (VC) curtain recently. Speaking at the New Media Women Entrepreneurs Summit, the serial entrepreneur and Verifeed founder highlighted 10 mistakes that entrepreneurs make when seeking funding: 1....
Does your business rely on Requests for Proposals (RFPs)? Law practices, management firms, PR agencies, and other big consulting-based businesses rely a lot on getting and winning work this way. It’s a numbers game. Respond a lot. Win some. Lose some. There are...
Want to know the secret to successfully pitching to investors? Take a back seat to your business. The Washington Post recently interviewed several successful entrepreneurs about what they look for when looking to invest in start-ups. While their comments ranged...