Random Posts

• Curiosity Protection

  People love dogs and cats. And they bring with them a wealth of familiar traits, idioms and general knowledge that makes including them in cartoons relatively easy. (Plus they’re fun to draw!) For example, everyone knows that you “let sleeping dogs lie,” and that “curiosity

• Awards and Contests for Entrepreneurs

  What’s better than cash and prizes for your business in the new year? Lots of new contests and competitions for entrepreneurs and small businesses to enter in 2010, including a bunch in January. This listing is updated every two weeks and brought to you as a community service by Small Business

• How Zipcar Creates a Self-Defining Brand – And Why This Should Change How You Think About Marketing

  “When we create products for our Zipsters, when we create a user experience, we do it as if we’re Zipsters and we’re going to use it every day. We do it through their eyes. We do what’s right for our community. That’s going to build a great company.” — Scott

• Will 2010 be the year of Start-Up America?

  On January 24th 2010, New York Times Columnist Thomas L. Friedman wrote an op-ed piece titled, “More (Steve) Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs,” which gave advice to President Obama as he puts the finishing touches on this week’s State of the Union speech. He wrote “We need to make 2010 what Obama shou

• Failure is an indication of progress

  Maybe I just needed it right now, but I really enjoyed this. Love how they frame failure. “You’re constantly on the brink of crashing… because that’s the fastest.” – Danica Patrick