App Makes Selling Stuff Online As Easy As Buying It By John Pavlus, fastcodesign.com Sold is an algorithm-powered concierge designed to get top dollar for your stuff. Buying stuff online has become so ridiculously easy that I’m more likely to impulse-purchase a book on my Kindle than borrow it for free from my local librar… … Continue reading Sold: an app that makes selling as easy as buying
The Skills Most Entrepreneurs Lack Bill J. Bonnstetter, hbr.org Entrepreneurs are a unique group of people, but they behave in patterns. In fact, as I recently wrote here on HBR, my firm’s research shows that most serial entrepreneurs display persuasion, leadership, personal accountability, goal orientation, a… http://flip.it/wLeH4 Related articles Entrepreneurs have leadership skills, but lack … Continue reading Traits of a serial entrepreneur
The Psychology of Language: Why Are Some Words More Persuasive Than Others? Leo Widrich, lifehacker.com What’s actually going on in the brain when it processes language? And if words affect the mind in different ways, are some more persuasive than others? Buffer cofounder Leo Widrich dives into what the research has to say about this … Continue reading Business linguistics: how to choose words which persuade
Where will all the hipsters go? ghanscom, grist.org ShutterstockGreat minds think alike. And so it was that this weekend the country’s two most prestigious daily newspapers both brought us stories of how sleepy, prosperous suburbs of their respective cities are developing hip downtowns with all the… Where will all the hipsters go? http://flip.it/VqbKA http://flip.it/zKi9S Related … Continue reading Hipsturbia: creatives move out of overpriced NYC, Brooklyn and up the Hudson River
Eco Market is like Etsy for Eco Chris Tackett, treehugger.com Eco Market is bringing together organic and natural product producers in what has been called an “Etsy for Eco” model. http://flip.it/pUD6b Related articles [Etsy Treasury] Etsy team "Let's support and promote each other" bundle of treasuries (funkyboxstudio.wordpress.com)
April Joyner, inc.com Inc. magazine Apr 2, 2013 What if anyone could go take to the Web to learn a job-getting new skill, at $20 a pop? Michael Karnjanaprakorn believes that education and learning are two different things. And when it comes to… Skillshare Takes On the Education Gap http://flip.it/odFq6 http://flip.it/my0Ik Skillshare Takes On the … Continue reading Skillshare Takes On the Education Gap
Suzanne Lucas, inc.com EVIL HR LADY How you pay your employees is governed by federal law. Violating it is easy, so be careful. Dear Evil HR Lady, If an exempt employee had to go to the doctor and missed an hour to three hours of work, can an… The Employment Law You Are Probably Breaking … Continue reading The Employment Law You Are Probably Breaking
Your Reputation Will Be The Currency Of The Future BY MARINA GORBIS, fastcoexist.com In The Nature Of The Future: Dispatches From The Socialstructed World, Marina Gorbis argues that as more and more of our activities are quantified online, your actions could become a new currency. But what happens if good behavior is… Your Reputation Will … Continue reading Your reputation will be the currency of the future
Retail | Start an Online Store With No Skills, No Stuff — And Now No Money Marcus Wohlsen, wired.com Forget software as a service. Welcome to the age of stuff as a service. Start an Online Store With No Skills, No Stuff — And Now No Money http://flip.it/1CXcC http://flip.it/S9uwB Related articles Software As A Service … Continue reading Finally you can get into ECommerce with no skills, no stuff and no money
Shopify Simplifies E-Commerce to Boost Crowdfunding Graduates Tim Maly, wired.com Say you finished your Kickstarter campaign for some product or other, and after the inevitable growing pains, you’ve gotten all the rewards out to your backers who are gleefully emailing you to say what a great thing it is that … Shopify Simplifies E-Commerce to … Continue reading Shopify: finally ECommerce you can do from your couch
Startups | The Easiest Path to Online Riches Is Good Ol’ Buying and Selling Marcus Wohlsen, wired.com While Google and Facebook might be transformative internet technologies that mint their inventors money, your consumer internet startup is more likely to hit that billion-dollar mark if it’s in the business of digital transactions. http://flip.it/6o25v Related articles Google … Continue reading Building a startup still means buying or selling SOMETHING
Get a Virgin Mobile Overdrive Pro 3G/4G mobile hot spot for $83.99 by Rick Broida, cnet.com That’s the lowest price to date for this no-contract hot spot, which offers unlimited 4G service (where there’s coverage) for as little as $35. Remember back on Monday when I said I was the victim of flaky hotel Wi-Fi? … Continue reading Virgin mobile overdrive 4g mobile hotspot is best deal
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Michael S. Malone, forbes.com This article was co-authored by veteran Silicon Valley marketing executive Tom Hayes, currently founder and CEO of MePedia.com According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, one out of every two Millennials—age 18 to 32… http://flip.it/Dipv8 Why Your Kid Can't Get a Job Related articles Self employments 2 (indomitablewoman.wordpress.com)
America’s New Sustainable Manufacturing Hubs Will Breed Creativity And Jobs BY SARAH KRASLEY, fastcoexist.com Will this be how we revitalize the economy? Across the country, new multidisciplinary spaces for people to learn, experiment, and make are popping up, creating a new surge of jobs with them. Obama’s State of the Union Address this year was … Continue reading Sustainable manufacturing hubs arise
en Lovejoy, 9to5mac.com Now that T-Mobile offers the iPhone, how do the four national carriers compare in terms of costs? A couple of websites have done the sums. Our friends over at Zagg did a blog post that suggested three of the four networks come out at… http://flip.it/8HvEU How much does T-Mobile’s contract-free iPhone plan … Continue reading How much does T-Mobile’s contract-free iPhone plan save over two years?
Don’t Get Fooled Into Taking a Bad Job by Asking These Questions in the Interview Alan Henry, lifehacker.com If your job sucks, and there’s nothing you can do about it, you may be tempted to look for another one. Be careful: remember job interviews are sales pitches as well as candidate evaluations, and all that … Continue reading Good interview questions to avoid a bad job
The Complete Guide to Selling Your Unwanted Crap for Money Alan Henry, lifehacker.com We’ve shown you how to kick your clutter habit, but why trash all of those things you don’t need when you could make some money off of them? In this guide, we’ll walk you through how you can appraise your items, where … Continue reading Tips for selling your unused stuff online
Julie Strickland, inc.com Inc.com staff Mar 19, 2013 Looking for new skills or insider know-how? Hop online and hone your expertise for free. Entrepreneurial education is slowly but surely becoming more mainstream. Traditional universities are offerin… Starting a Company? 8 Free Online Courses You Can’t Miss http://flip.it/oxJH8 http://flip.it/KgYxc Starting a Company? 8 Free Online Courses … Continue reading Starting a Company? 8 Free Online Courses You Can’t Miss
The Art Of Writing Your Own Bio: How To Toot Your Horn Without Sounding Like A Blowhard By Jonathan Rick, fastcompany.com The problem with your bio isn’t the boasting—it’s who’s doing the boasting. After college, I did what most liberal arts grads do when they come to Washington: I interned at a think tank. As … Continue reading Write a good bio
Startups | Tuition at Learn-to-Code Boot Camp Is Free — Until You Get a Job Marcus Wohlsen, wired.com One school in one of the hottest hiring markets in the country is flipping the script on student loans: Until you get a job, you don’t pay. Marcus Wohlsen Tuition at Learn-to-Code Boot Camp Is Free — … Continue reading App academy: free tuition until you get a job
With opening of LTE on Virgin, the pre-paid wireless company is now ready for the iPhone 5 Élyse Betters, 9to5mac.com Virgin Mobile USA, a subsidiary of Sprint Nextel Corporation, began offering LTE today, which significantly means the carrier could now carry the iPhone 5 along with its parent company. Virgin now carries the iPhone 4 … Continue reading Virgin carries iPhone 5,contract free
I Switched from Mint.com to Pageonce. Maybe You Should Too. Wade Roush, xconomy.com Wade RoushFor more than a decade, I was a faithful user of Quicken, Intuit’s desktop personal finance program. I stopped using it in 2008 after Mint.com came along, giving me the ability to monitor all my accounts from one simple, attractiv… http://flip.it/Up8PU … Continue reading Switch from Mint to Pageonce?
The Difference Between a Happy Marriage and Miserable One: Chores Wendy Klein, Carolina Izquierdo, & Thomas N. Bradbury, theatlantic.com Couples who don’t have a system for household tasks can get really resentful, really quickly. A look at the results of an in-depth study of middle-class families. Between 2001 and 2004, a team of UCLA researchers … Continue reading The data science of chores
Channtal Fleischfresser, smartplanet.com Which U.S. cities have the highest proportions of independent workers, and where do they earn the highest wages? Channtal Fleischfresser RT @core77: I was definitely surprised by this map of “The best U.S. cities to be a freelancer” - http://flip.it/UxCJb http://flip.it/hiP5i The best U.S. cities to be a freelancer
How to Use Introversion for Career and Personal Success Alice Boyes, lifehacker.com Introversion isn’t a flaw. In fact, introverts are powerful players in work and home life. Here, psychologist Alice Boyes shares how to use your natural personality traits towards success.Develop a Positive Overall View of Your Temperament … How to Use Introversion for Career … Continue reading Career success for introverted makers
Use Written Estimates to Shop Around and Save Money on Car Repairs Alan Henry, lifehacker.com If you take your car to the shop for regular maintenance or even a small repair, odds are the mechanic will come back to you with a laundry list of things they want to convince you to do before you … Continue reading Use written estimates to save on repairs
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