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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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I hope it doesn’t seem like total self promotion — I’ve tried to avoid that as much as possible on this blog — but hey, tomorrow Palo Alto Software is going to give away thousands of copies of Business Plan Pro (and not a light version, the upscale, premier version) for free to Oregonians who [...]
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I like Twitter and I use it a lot, but really, I don’t care if you do, or if anybody else does. And I don’t get why people seem offended by it, but they do, a lot. What’s up with that? Is it politics or religion? Defensiveness maybe?
For example, this rant appeared as a comment [...]
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I know, it doesn’t make sense, but that’s not unusual with detailed research. I read this at FiveThirtyEight.com: according to research, Having Daughters Rather Than Sons Makes You More Liberal. Or, as I read the study, makes fathers more liberal. And legislators. Here’s some of what they say:
Warner (1991) and Warner and Steel (1999) study [...]
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Graduating from college and looking for a job, this year of all years, is something like entering a busy freeway going the wrong way.
Consider the plight of the kids born mostly in 1988. Struggle through high school, struggle through college, working on the American dream. They were discovering computers during the Internet boom [...]
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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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(This was first posted here last year.)
I woke up yesterday in Portland (OR), in a condo near the top of W. Burnside. The area has a series of cemeteries, dark green rolling hills, breaking up the otherwise thick forested landscape. It had rained all night, so there was a thick mist cushioning the quiet hills. [...]
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Seems to me like the recession has hit bottom and the economy is starting back up.
It’s not just sales at our company which are picking up. It’s also people I know and talk to, like the other 24 investors in my angel investor group which met last week; most of them are business owners. And people at [...]
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In the olden days, when I was a grad student in Journalism, for instance, or a night editor for UPI, the business model of the news business was fairly clear:
News organizations sold advertisements.
They needed news to get readers to be able to sell the ads.
News needed credibility to get the readers.
So we had a news [...]
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