Future Jets Owner Gary Vaynerchuk Brings Thunder to Austin "I’ve been tracking Gary Vaynerchuk of WineLibrary TV ever since the day that Dan Benjamin told me about the sale of Corkd to this sorta zany character with a wine show on the web." - Damon Clin
@roxannedarling Bare Feet Studios LLC is a small, curious, tech-savvy company based in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, owned by Roxanne Darling and Shane Robinson. We participate in and advise on New Media and the Social Web to connect people and solve problems.
Maximizing your work happiness should be the theme of your working life. Happiness creates success. When you stop putting in the hours and start extracting joy from work, you'll be successful.
The following income streams (from a number of blogs) have helped me to earn a six figure income each year for the last three years from blogging. I’ve ranked them from highest to lowest.
The Social Media 100 is a project by Chris Brogan dedicated to writing 100 useful blog posts in a row about the tools, techniques, and strategies behind using social media for your business, your organization, or your own personal interests.
Techcrunch is reporting Demand Media bought Austin-based Pluck for $75MM cash. Frankly, I am fairly surprised. I first wrote about Pluck after sitting on a panel at the McCombs School of Business (UT @ Austin)
There's no catch and I'm not trying to sell you an ebook. Or anything (read about conmen who do). I'm not even signing you up for a newsletter. This list was put together more as a laugh. It may change your life. Or it may annoy you enormously because of
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Brian Rodgers is no City Hall mover and shaker. But he has nonetheless shaken things up with his crusade to stop the tax subsidies that Austin granted to the high-end Domain shopping center in 2003.
In this episode of The Podcasting Underground, I talk about how I make the most money from podcasting and blogging. It’s probably not what you’re thinking. In Q3 of this year I used an often overlooked strategy to generate over $70,000 from my podcast
in a secret area off-limits even to regular GoogleFolk, is a shipping container. But it isn't just any shipping container. This shipping container is a prototype data center. Google hired a pair of very bright industrial designers to figure out how to cra
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The 100 Daily Must-Reads for Entrepreneurs Monday, July 23, 2007 at 7:23pm by admin These days, it seems that almost everyone has a blog, so it’s often hard to separate what’s really worth reading from what isn’t. 100 best sites
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WordPress Themes & WordPress Blog Design for Small Business. Michael D. PollockWe design powerful, easy-to-use web publishing platforms - sometimes known as blogs or content management systems - that make it easier for small business owners to connect wi
Now, any business can create a Facebook profile, or business page, which any Facebook user can become a "fan" of. You no longer have to be a Fortune 500 company to afford this. It's free.
A home-based millionaire and a redworm farmer Radio Show Home-Based Business StartupNation's Rich Sloan, chief Startupologist, interviews winners from the 2007 StartupNation...
For the sake of your (search engine) Quality Score, (human) Credibility and (financial) bottom line, there are exactly six pages your site must include.
An intriguing approach that I have recently seen on the rise is the usage of a virtual assistant. This article will look at a few of the current online personal assistant options.
Todoist features a simple and intuitive interface that helps you get organized without getting in your way. You can also use keyboard shortcuts to achieve blazing efficiency.
I have been patiently waiting for a video solution with quality as good as, if not better, than Apple's iChat AV which would also work cross-platform and be easy to use. Finally SightSpeed has come to the rescue.
55 essential articles I’ve come across that have positively influenced my blog decision-making and will undoubtedly help you too. I’ve also included a select few of my own past articles that are of relevance in order to “pay it forward.” Like tro
more and more companies are going virtual. The answer to long commutes, inner city traffic, tapping into creative minds in other geographies and combating global warming is: a 'work from home' policy.
Real networking is about finding ways to make other people more successful. It is sharing your knowledge and resources, time and energy, friends and associates, and empathy and compassion in an effort to provide value to others while increasing your own.
To be able to do your work from any computer, set up a virtual workspace online that will keep you productive, giving you quick access to what you need without all the distractions.
If you like to create or share video, Revver was made for you. Every time someone watches a video that you've uploaded or shared, you could earn money. Best of all, we protect your rights as an artist.
TechMeme (formerly tech.memeorandum) is a site that bloggers and others check frequently for news. It is an entirely automated web service that looks at what bloggers are talking about, linking to,decides what is news sistss Memeorandum WeSmirch BallBug
On dotherightthing, you can: * Share information that you discover about companies’ impacts on people and the world * Learn about the activities of companies directly from people and rate the impact of the important ones * Track the “socia
As the volume of financial and other data transactions increase over the Internet, the potential for harm from network threats also increases. As a consequence, complex security measures that were once required by only Fortune 500 companies such as regula
Do you want to make money in your own home? Forget real estate scams, tupperware, or becoming a spammer. Create your own Web 2.0 company NOW!! Its easy. Just follow these 10 simple steps and you, too, can be seen in fine dining establishments like Jam
Memo for Bosses: 101 Ways to Prevent your Office from Hating You Your office hates you. Sorry to break the news to you this way, but it's about time you found out. Thankfully, there's reason to hope. In fact, there's 101 reasons. And for those of you who
IT|Redux identifies three major trends that are in play today and are expected to remain so over the coming years: Reduction, Interconnection and Delegation. This weblog is organized into categories and sub-categories that mirror this classification, foll
Paul Terry Walhus takes up Mark's challenge and puts in his bid for a job with the Mavs owner. Paul wants to mashup the Alamo food at movies concept, with wifi touchscreens for ordering food and bling, and toss in a film festival ambience for good measu
Shocked and impressed at the response to my Movie Challenge would certainly be understatements. 875 responses, plus hundreds of emails from people who were unable to post to the blog (sorry !) Im am still going through them but wanted to offer some feedba
This is an open challenge. You come up with a solution, you get a job. Seriously. This is the problem that consumes me more than what Free Agent we are going to sign. How to get the NBA to get their act together. Which 7-11 Im going to run by to get a san
In my room I have whiteboard with a task list that I slowly work through as part of my working day after I finish responding to time sensitive emails. Generally I work on a website or do some form of writing, which can be copy for a website, an article fo
Five homes. Three estates. Fancy cars. Private jets. (The jets are always rented. If it flies, floats or fornicates, always rent it — it’s cheaper in the long run.) Thousands of acres of land. Art on the walls and libraries stuffed with first editions
What to Write Off on Your Business Taxes Peter Soh, our CPA biz expert, shares a helping of home-office deduction insights to lighten this year's tax burden. Coffee Talk with Experts.
Here is a list of all Web 2.0 companies that received venture backing. Download the list here; note the tabs at the bottom, which show all 2005 fundings, and then 2006 Q1. Scroll to right to see the funding amounts, etc. (Hat-tip to PwC for sending it on.
Guy Kawasaki, who is one of the best bloggers (and, of course, bestselling author) on business tactics, has a great post of prescriptive advice for people building Long Tail businesses. Here are three of his nine rules, which together make a key point: Lo
With all the 2.0 hype, I think it’s unfair to unanimously declare all new Internet startups as 100% junk. It can’t be much more than 95%. So I thought it would be an interesting diversion to switch the tone of my writing for a change. Here are some ti
Google runs on hundreds of thousands of servers—by one estimate, in excess of 450,000—racked up in thousands of clusters in dozens of data centers around the world. It has data centers in Dublin, Ireland; in Virginia; and in California, where it just
All the “where to invest $100″ articles telling you to buy CDs and open money market funds are dead wrong. Absolutely dead wrong. Where should you be investing $100? Look for promotional offers from online bank accounts (where you can generate some mo
Springwise scans the globe for the most promising business ventures, ideas and concepts ready for regional or international adaptation, expansion, partnering, investments or cooperation. Ferociously tracking more than 400 global offline and online busines
So Amanda is making $4.4 million, at least, a year from advertising - on her blog. I presume that her hosting costs are pretty significant though, because she runs a video service. But still it'd be a very healthy profit.