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Keep It Simple and Short

positivityblog:
Lee Iacocca said, “You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can’t get them across, your ideas won’t get you anywhere”.
One of the trickier things about social skills is to get your message across. One reason why people have difficulty with this is because they use more words than needed.
1. Clarity. Obviously. If you only […]

100 Ways To Brew Up a Great Idea

Marketing Profs Daily Fix:
10. Alphabetize your refrigeratables.
9. Find a new word in the dictionary.
8. Think like a child.
7. Take Spot for a walk.
6. Write out the problem with your opposite hand.
5. Doodle.
4. Go for a drive with the windows open.
3. Think about it before you go to sleep.
[…]

Giving It Away

Forbes:
Cory Doctorow: “I’ve been giving away my books ever since my first novel came out, and boy has it ever made me a bunch of money.
When my first novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, was published by Tor Books in January 2003, I also put the entire electronic text of the novel on […]

Teen Finds Success

KENS 5 Eyewitness News:
In the tiny town of Troy, an eight-grader came up with a big idea.
“One day I saw my sister putting her shoes on the wrong foot, so I decided to invent something,” Joel Williams said.
Williams, 13, was only 9 at the time. But after turning his parent’s garage into his office, the […]

Small Firms Driving Job Growth

Inc.:
Small businesses have employed more than half of the nation’s non-farm private-sector workforce in recent years, according to updated data from the Small Business Administration’s Office of Advocacy.
In 2004, the latest year studied, small employers added nearly two million net new jobs to the U.S. economy, the data shows.
“Small businesses are America’s job-creating dynamo,” Chad […]

Startup King’s New Gig

Business 2.0 Magazine:
Some people can’t stop thinking about food. Bill Gross can’t stop thinking about new businesses. One of the world’s great serial entrepreneurs, he’s launched more than 50 startups through Idealab, his incubator in Pasadena, Calif. His track record includes both winners (CitySearch, Cooking.com, NetZero/United Online) and losers (eToys, Eve.com, Free-PC). But he’s best […]

Niche Biz: Freeze-Dried Burials

Springwise:
The pharaohs built pyramids to help protect their mummified remains for millennia. But these days an opposite trend has taken hold: low-impact burials that enable a body to naturally revert back to the soil as quickly as possible.
In the UK, for example, well over 100 special cemeteries permit the burial of the deceased in biodegradable […]

User Generated Content Doesn’t Work For Everyone

ReadWriteWeb:
Denver, Colorado-based ManiaTV was launched in 2004 as a video destination based around quality, professionally produced content.
When YouTube exploded onto the scene, though, ManiaTV tried to jump on the bandwagon by launching over 3000 channels of user generated content (UGC).
Curiously, however, even while YouTube thrived and eventually grew to a $1.65 billion acquisition by Google, […]

Successful Solo Career

Money Magazine:
Being your own boss has a lot of advantages, but making the transition from the traditional corporate world takes work.
Give yourself financial padding
Most people need to set aside a year’s worth of income before they cut themselves loose. You’ll know within eight months whether you’re developing a sustainable business. To boost your survival chances, […]

Disposable Prepacked Lunches?

BusinessWeek:
Advanta Bank’s Ideablob.com invites visitors to submit their business ideas for feedback and enter a monthly contest to win $10,000.
Prepacked lunch boxes is one of the most popular recent ideas.
Two others: a real estate Web site “that finally rids the world of real estate brokers” and a Web site to search for available wedding or […]