Tag Archives: Small Business

A few SXSW tidbits

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Want to know where everyone is going and what they are doing at SXSW? Try Twitter. (hint: click on a thumbnail on the right) Want to know if you a few after hour events are within walking distance of one another? Try this mashup. Wish you were there and want to live vicariously through others? […]

Off to the SXSW Festival

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I am currently at SXSW on the Interactive path. It is the first time I’ve attended SXSW and it feels like a great event for creative people to get together. The fact that it’s called a “festival” instead of a conference or seminar says a lot. It is a very open and free style environment […]

Lessons in “managing innovation”

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The Harvard Business School publishes Working Knowledge and it often has good nuggets of information for small businesses and entrepreneurs . This article is on Lessons Not Learned About Innovation. Managing innovation sounds like a funny phrase for small business. We tend to just get stuff done and not worry so much about “managing innovation”. […]

Solar Web Hosting?

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A few months back we switched our www.myintervals.com hosting company. We considered going with a solar company but ended up not due to the lack of reputation. Our major concern was dependability for you guys using our services. I guess you can say that uptime trumped the environment… sadly. But we are not opposed to […]

Trying to better people through work

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At Pelago we have a lot of idealism about work and life. We are striving to be a small business that stays small (hopefully no more than 10 people – right now we’re at 7) and puts our priorities in proper order. This is a very difficult task indeed with how much we all work. […]

Small businesses and one person shops are growing

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The Institute for the Future put out a research piece on small business, entrepreneurialism and one person companies. The report sets out to show trends in small business and shows a large increase in small businesses and predicts the trend to continue. Small businesses are an important and growing driver of U.S. economic growth and […]

First time journey to CES

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I am back from the CES show with my initial observations: Bring a good pair of walking shoes, you are going to walk until exhaustion.. Be careful when taking pictures…only the press can take photos in some places (learned that one the hard way). UPDATE: Apparently I’m not the only one irked by this. Two […]