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This Flowchart Will Tell You Exactly Which New SUV Or Crossover To Buy Jason Torchinsky on Jalopnik, shared by Brian Barrett to Gizmodo, jalopnik.com Some of you may remember the new car-buying flow chartI made a bit over a month ago. Between the comments suggesting I seek out my clergyperson, I noticed many of you…
“Catastrophic failure”: Adventures in car sharing, part 2 Greg Hanscom, grist.org ShutterstockSharing was supposed to make me feel good. Instead it made me feel like this.The air-conditioning compressor: Sounds harmless enough — another of those little metal widgets bolted under the hood of your car. But under the right… http://flip.it/DcbuJ
7 Fairly Useless, High-Paying Jobs Geoffrey James, inc.com SALES SOURCE Companies pay big bucks to have these folks either on board or on retainer. How come? In my humble opinion, the most important people in any organization are the salespeople. After all, without salespeople,… http://flip.it/W7Q9L
5 Ways to Survive a Terrible Boss Les McKeown, inc.com THE SYNERGIST Working for a start-up is no easy feat. Founders can be, well, jerks. If you’re not ready to quit, here’s how to get through the day to day. There’s nothing more debilitating than heading into work every day depressed at the… http://flip.it/PNijH
How To Make Money Without A Job Deborah L. Jacobs, forbes.com Before joining the staff of Forbes in July of 2011, I was happily self-employed for 23 years. For much of this time my husband and I ran two mostly unrelated home-based businesses. He worked in his office in the front of the house, while…
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5 Sure-Fire Routes to Freelancing Success Lynn Dixon, mashable.com In today’s shaky economy, freelancing is on the rise. In the U.S. alone, one in three workers are now doing freelance work. That’s 42 million Americans going without employer health insurance, 401(k) plans and flexible spending accounts.But it’s n… http://flip.it/xrdcp Related articles 5 Sure-Fire Routes to…
Natural language comparison service Versus IO scores $2.8M in funding David Meyer, gigaom.com In the development of natural language processing, the semantic web and so on, e-commerce provides a rich breeding ground. Companies such as Amazon and Google always want to find better ways to learn what it is potential customers… Natural language comparison service…
What Tumblr’s sale means for New York startup ecosystem Om Malik, gigaom.com A few weeks after Ken Lerer quit AOL-owned Huffington Post to work on his venture fund Lerer Ventures, I stopped by in his office to catch up and talk about the New York landscape. And during our conversation, he pointed out that New…
Build Your Startup On A Vacant Domain Name David Teten, forbes.com This is part two of a two-part series on domain names and startups; part 1 was “Should a Startup Spend VC Funding on a Domain Name?”. I’ve written in the past about how to identify a great startup opportuni… Build Your Startup On A…
Times Have Changed. Your Resume Needs To Change, Too. Rob Asghar, forbes.com The professional resume is said to go back to five centuries ago, as yet another innovation by Leonardo da Vinci . During our own lifetimes, it’s been a staple of the Age of Bureaucracy, designed to be a bland and standardized… Times Have…
Top 10 Personal Finance Books of All Time Geoffrey James, inc.com SALES SOURCE These ten books have ten different (and powerful) approaches to accumulating personal wealth. Previous posts have identified the best motivational business books of all time, and the best eye-opening books for the… Top 10 Personal Finance Books of All Time http://flip.it/ItKdA http://flip.it/eHCKQ…
10 Top States for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Bill Murphy Jr., inc.com D.C. BILL Recently I told you about the 10 worst states for new business in America. Now here’s where entrepreneurship is thriving. Recently, I told you about the 10 worst states in America for new businesses—at least, according to the… 10 Top States for…
Disruption Lessons From Airbnb The Build Network staff, inc.com Your future competitors will likely supply what you do—but from cheaper, off-the-radar sources. There are backyard business terms, and there are—how shall we put it?—more elevated notions. Any kid with a lemonade stand grasps “supply”… Disruption Lessons From Airbnb http://flip.it/4k2ef http://flip.it/tU716 Related articles Disruption Lessons From…
If You Graduated After 1976, You Are Getting Screwed By The Economy BY STAN ALCORN, fastcoexist.com This infographic shows the hard truth for anyone in their late 30s or younger: Everything has been more difficult for you, and it’s just getting worse. The 1970s have strangely become, in retrospect, a golden era, at least for…
How To Tweet Your Way To Your Dream Job By: Lydia Dishman, fastcompany.com Three out of four people are in constant job-search mode and, increasingly, Twitter is their tool of choice. Here’s how to make 140 characters work for you. Can a tweet—or three—land you a dream job? That’s a question Taylor Aldredge now… http://flip.it/ZMN7U…
Big Corporations Are Buying Design Firms in Droves Nathan Hurst, wired.com Accenture announced yesterday it will acquire design firm Fjord, making the consulting firm one of a growing list of multi-faceted companies that are integrating design into their product by buying whole studios. Big Corporations Are Buying Design Firms in Droves http://flip.it/a6kUX http://flip.it/mzOoo Related articles…
Slickdeals’ best in tech for April 24th: 29-inch Dell UltraSharp 21:9 LED monitor and more Billy Steele, engadget.com Looking to save some coin on your tech purchases? Of course you are! In this roundup, we’ll run down a list of the freshest frugal buys, hand-picked with the help of the folks at Slickdeals. You’ll want…
The 10 Best Freelance Careers David Hochman, forbes.com The 10 Best Freelance Careers http://flip.it/TnJBx http://flip.it/Bkunz Related articles The freelance life, redux (cjr.org) So, I heard you quit your job? (capitalisinghumans.com) The Many Pitfalls of Freelancing (lifehack.org) Frontline Freelance Register created to help freelance war reporters (oxfordschoolofphotography.wordpress.com) Airbnb for freelancers and business people. #oipd (webnu.wordpress.com) How…
Forget GDP: The Social Progress Index Measures National Well-Being BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com What’s the best way to tell how a country is doing (and serving its citizens)? It’s not just a measure of economic output, that’s for sure. This new index tracks everything from opportunity to health to sustainability. Guess where the U.S.… Forget…
The Rise of Pre-Commerce BY LISA GANSKY, fastcoexist.com The sharing economy and crowdfunding have fundamentally altered the way we develop products. Business is social. At its core is a seemingly endless series of social interactions—not just internal relationships, but external ones as well… The Rise of Pre-Commerce http://flip.it/nDxsD http://flip.it/wJxWv Related articles Best crowdfunding options will…
angel.co Startup Salaries & Equity – AngelList http://flip.it/0UFrl http://flip.it/ctGJb Startup Salaries & Equity Related articles How to Bootstrap Your Startup (alleywatch.com) How to Negotiate a Job Offer (upstart.com)
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