May 2012
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CEO checklist
As a first time CEO, there were times when I would sit at my desk and think, “What should I be doing today?” This feeling was especially strong after every financing round closed. After our seed round, we had defined the product and the engineers were coding it. I didn’t code. After I hired the executive team and started delegating, most of the bases were covered.
Moose Pass Social Entrepreneur →
She applied for and was granted the Thomas Andrew McKinley ‘06 Entrepreneur Grant, which provided her $5,000 to live in Ghana and set up African Art Stands, an import/export nonprofit. She spent the spring semester making contacts with artists, collecting art, and shipping the pieces back to Alaska, her home state, where she planned to sell them at galleries.
February 2012
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Nana's Piksik works to keep film production in... →
A trade group and a Native Corporation are teamed up to promote a program that attracts movie and television productions to Alaska.
November 2011
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New opportunities in Alaska's Arctic →
September 2011
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Alaska Online newspaper grows →
Alaska Dispatch, the state’s leader for online news, is reporting a banner year for growth in revenue and readership. Because of our relentless coverage of Alaska our readership has grown by more than 300 percent in the past year.
August 2011
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Innovative dual screen laptop goes to market
gScreen’s dual-screen laptop offering is finally here. Can added utility outweigh a hefty price? ($1899) “Unlike Lenovo’s past offering, in which an extra little screen was cool but not essential enough to justify lugging it around everywhere, gScreen has a complete dual-screen setup that’s far more portable than a comparable desktop solution would be. As a mobile workstation,...
March 2011
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A great wordpress theme called Portfolio →
‘Whale’ of an impact: Estimate credits 1,300 jobs,... →
November 2010
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What I Learned About Entrepreneurship Through 15... →
September 2010
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Takeoff - Simple Video Collaboration →
Google Shakes It Up Again With Free Phone Calls -... →
August 2010
5 posts
Attracting Smart People To Your Community... →
Entrepreneurial communities grow up around smart people. Whenever someone in state or local government asks me what they can do to accelerate entrepreneurship, I always tell them to put as much money and energy as they can into education. If you build a broad base of smart, inquisitive, curious people that are long term members of your community (e.g. they don’t move somewhere else), you’ll...
Big Think - Interesting website →
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Why You Can’t Work at Work | Jason Fried | Big... →
Why You Can’t Work at Work
Jason Fried Co-founder, 37signals
With its constant commotion, unnecessary meetings, and infuriating wastes of time, the modern workplace makes us all work longer, less focused hours. Jason Fried explains how we can change all of this.
Million Dollar Idea | This American Life →
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Originally aired 07.16.2010 Back in the 1980s Michael Larson made the most money ever on the game show Press Your Luck. And it was no accident—Larson had a plan to get rich that surprised everyone: the home viewers, the show’s producers and mostly Larson himself. This and other stories of...
Christina Perri Blogs: the calm after the storm. →
wow. i am speechless. inspired is how you make me feel. grateful is how i want to stay. the past twenty five days DID happen. they happened to me + to you. they made almost every dream i’ve ever had come true. love. heart-touching. love. believers. love. new employers. love….
July 2010
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Sramana Mitra on Strategy →
Good blog on Entrepreneurship
June 2010
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Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay... →
When reality is labeled unthinkable, it creates a kind of sickness in an industry. Leadership becomes faith-based, while employees who have the temerity to suggest that what seems to be happening is in fact happening are herded into Innovation Departments, where they can be ignored en bloc.
I Can Has Cheezburger Blog Leads to a Web Empire -... →
Mr. Huh, a 32-year-old entrepreneur, first became aware of I Can Has Cheezburger, which pairs photos of cats with quirky captions, after it linked to his own pet blog. His site immediately crumbled under the resulting wave of visitors.
May 2010
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Small Business School, Inc. - Search for a deeper... →
The Power of Why-Brad Feld →
Simon Sinek’s TED Talk from TedxPuget Sound (Sept 2009) has been posted and is just awesome. He starts out with the question “Why is Apple so innovative,“ Why is it that Martin Luther King led the civil rights movement,” and “Why is it that the Wright Brothers were able to figure out controlled power manned flight?”
Lewis Howes-LinkedIn Guru give tips on LinkedIn →
SMSS: How to use LinkedIn with business savvy |... →
Myer Law Blog » Blog Archive » Google Voice is my... →
What makes GV so interesting is that you are not charged for calls or SMS messages within the US. Overseas calls are inexpensive (Europe is currently 3 cents a minute) and if you call an overseas mobile phone the current charge is 19 cents a minute.
Blue Streak: Inside jetBlue, the Upstart that... →
April 2010
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Why Entrepreneurs Don't Need VCs - Forbes.com →
March 2010
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Picnik Blog » Blog Archive » Picnik Acquired by... →
And all this leads us to today’s exciting news: we’ve just been acquired by Google! What does this mean for Picnik? It means we can think BIG. Google processes petabytes of data every day, and with their worldwide infrastructure and world-class team, it is truly the best home we could have found. Under the Google roof we’ll reach more people than ever before, impacting more lives and making more...
10 Blogs Entrepreneur's Must Follow →
If you are a start-up looking for capital, or an entrepreneur that will one day run with that great idea, then here are 10 blogs that are an absolute must. If you haven’t already, set up an RSS reader and subscribe to these blogs.
February 2010
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WatchThe Bloom Box - 60 Minutes - CBS News
The Open Angel Forum & The Changing Face Of The... →
Good article about a new generation of VCs.
Texas entrepreneur hopes to turn mesquite into... →
At least 110 power plants in the U.S. burn biomass, a tiny fraction of the electricity generation compared with coal, natural gas or nuclear. Texas has only a handful of biomass plants — the closest is a 3-megawatt plant in Marshall. They are far more common in logging-heavy areas of the Pacific Northwest, Upper Midwest and New England.
Software company completes fundraising using only... →
According to executive chairman Frank Hannigan, the company is selling off 10 slots to investors at €25,000 each – each equivalent to a 2 per cent stake in the company.
“Achieving 65% of the impossible is better than 100% of the ordinary”
– Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing: How Google sets goals and measures success
January 2010
11 posts
Why You Should Start a Company in... Seattle |... →
The end of the office... and the future of work -... →
By the end of the month, a company called txteagle will be the largest employer in Kenya. The firm, started in its original form in 2008 by a young computer engineer named Nathan Eagle and, as of this coming June, based in Boston, will have 10,000 people working for it in Kenya. Txteagle does not rent office space for these workers, nor do the company’s officers interview them, or ever talk to...
The New Internet Start-Up Boom: Get Rich Slow -... →
“The difference between a start-up and a small business, by the way, is that a...”
– The New Internet Start-Up Boom: Get Rich Slow - TIME
WatchAlaska App Designers keep designing iphone hits
Nebraska, not Alaska is Silicon Prairie
Omaha.com - The Omaha World-Herald: Metro/Region - CEOs drum up high-tech business
LINCOLN — Tom Gallaway grew up in Nebraska’s windswept Sand Hills, on a cattle ranch outside Bassett.
But like many young people in the Cornhusker State, he moved away for the bright lights — and opportunities — of the big city.
He now lives among the palm trees of Orange County, Calif. He and his wife,...
Culutural Experience Tourism Grows
Cultural experiences fastest growing sector of British Columbia tourism By Staff reports Story Published: Dec 22, 2009 Story Updated: Dec 22, 2009 VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Tourism markets around the world are undergoing drastic changes to adjust to the new economic realities facing the tourism industry. In British Columbia, however, operators of aboriginal tourism and cultural experiences...
WatchWaze Demo for real-time traffic updates. Good concept but skeptical in execution. My iphone battery won’t last with any application open that long.
Waze: Way to go | Guided Tour →
Part I — Hot Startups to Watch in 2010 →
Robert Scoble blog post on the top 25 startups to watch for 2010
December 2009
2 posts
Alaska Airline pilot Entrepreneurs
NAVERUS DEAL BOOSTS GE NAVIGATION ARM GE Aviation has acquired Washington-based Naverus, a 60-employee company that develops required navigation performance (RNP) and other performance-based navigation services. Founded in 2003 by an entrepreneur and two Alaska Airlines pilots, Naverus has deployed hundreds of RNP procedures worldwide, including to terrain-challenged airports in Tibet and New...
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Books/Blogs for Startups « Steve Blank →
Steve Blank shares his favorite startup books and why.