Independent Street 15: Entrepreneur Blogs



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Not for me

A worthwhile discipline: when giving feedback, separate "not for me" from "not for anyone." If someone brings you a business plan for a power plant that will use perpetual motion as a power supply, it's fair to say, "this will... (original story)

San Mateo county event for veterans services on Friday 19th March

Hey, looks like they have a good event to connect veterans to new services. It's in two days, so get the word out! The County of San Mateo, Human Services Agency is holding a special event to connect veterans to... (original story)

Small Business News March 17

Watch today’s small business news with important details on tax time, innovative marketing tips and startup primers. It’s time for the small business roundup chock full of helpful information for the small business community collected by the Small Business Trends team. Read and enjoy! Startup Want a to-do list to stick on the refrigerator for your startup? Ben Yoskovitz has even created a slide show of things to think about before you get in too deep. Instigator Blog Who needs money, a business plan orRead MoreFrom Small Business TrendsSmall Business News March 17 (original story)

Good Hair

Originally posted in True Films This documentary explores the extreme lengths that black women in America go to to straigthen their naturally curly hair. There's a lot of identity, gender and beauty politics wrapped up in their expensive and at times painful solutions. This docu... (original story)

JavaScript and Page Loading Performance

No one likes to wait for a Web site to load. Least of all someone doing some last minute birthday shopping for an expectant niece or nephew or the pressured husband that just realized tomorrow is his anniversary. Shoppers have very little tolerance for slow loading retail Web sites, therefore, devel... (original story)

Because information trumps mass, all commerce...

Originally posted in New Rules ...migrates to the network economy. MIT Media Lab director Nicholas Negroponte guesstimates that the online economy will have reached $1 trillion by 2000. Most tenured economists think that figure is terribly optimistic. But actually that optimistic... (original story)

Phoebe defends the nest from Lizard Attack

You can relive the drama. From the album: "Phoebe the hummingbird" (original story)

6 Tips for Site Search Reporting: Things to Look For in Site Search Data

SLI Systems has given me permission to publish 6 of nearly 80 tips on site search you’ll find in their latest e-book Big Book of Site Search Tips (free download). Enjoy! 1. Regularly check the top search terms on your site. They can be good indicators of new items your clients are looking for... (original story)

When To Respond To Negative Reviews (and not)

We talk a lot about taking the time to manage customer reviews and it makes sense to do so. Online reviews grow legs: The search engines are aggregating them, Google’s putting them on Google Place pages and many users are even starting searches on review sites. You want to make sure that you’r... (original story)

Fixing Washington: The Public Online Information Act

The deal is to tell us what's really going on, how things work, where the money goes. A lot of documents reveal that, but if they're on paper only, might as well not exist. This new proposed law would require... (original story)



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Release Date: April 08, 2009.
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Release Date: March 02, 2010.


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