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Thanks for asking. Our Oregon Small Business Boost day (business plan software free for Oregonians) yesterday went even better than expected. I like this summary from our local newspaper, which tagged it as “frenzy” on its front page this morning.
And you can click here for our summary of it.
We distributed more than 17,000 cards through [...]
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During in the recession of 2001, I let 5 people go in a single day. Our sales were down, but we held on, for too long, hoping things would turn up in time to save the jobs. They didn’t.
Letting people go is the hardest thing a small business owner does.
But from that hard time I discovered [...]
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Wow, this is fun. ‘CSI’ Writer Sued For Revenge Naming Show Characters After Real People, which I saw on Huffington Post.
How ironic is this:
LOS ANGELES — A couple sued a writer for the CBS show ‘CSI,’ claiming two shady characters on the show were named after them in revenge for a real estate deal gone [...]
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I’ve posted before on this blog about The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s powerful book, written before the big downturn, which some say (he wouldn’t) predicted it.
With a beautifully written mix of history, stories, studies, and logic, Taleb shows how the big events are completely unpredictable. And that we kid ourselves, [...]
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Are you in the business of teaching? Or guiding, or coaching, or consulting? About 40 years ago a guy named Jack taught me his job in a sugar processing plant. He ran two enormous liquid vats that used acid and…
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I guess this means I’m still an entrepreneur at heart. I promised the team that when Email Center Pro reached its first major milestone, I’d shave off my beard. And that happened today — both the milestone and the beard….
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Design came to mean a lot to me in business when the lack of it nearly killed my business in 1993. The Palo Alto Software of those days had only me and two other employees. We got into retail with…
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We struggled with formulas. How much would this business be worth in one circumstance or another? We tried to imagine all the ramifications. There was a lot of Excel work. We were working on a contract with marketing vendors. It…
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This is so cool: writing in Escape From Cubicle Nation yesterday, Pamela Slim suggests that social good is a natural extension of entrepreneurship. This reminds me, happily, of the dreams of the late 1960s, when a lot of us –…
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