Opposite to what I thought at a first time, five days ago Pixelotto has been release and collected in that day, more than 80 thousand dollars, with many mini banners in the site. There is no doubt that Alex Tew has businessman’s blood.
About Pixelotto’s release, that same day the BBC published an article about what Alex Tew did in the past. They tell that Alex didn’t want to invest in other business ideas, but in buying a house. Could the best business be, the one in which we don’t invest?
Wired has tried and decided. Their machines and gadgets annual test has experimented with more than 300 devices and these are the winners:
The best of the best mobile telephones is the Motorola Q, a smartphone that besides working uses as center of entertainment. In the category of smartphones, follow the blackberry Pearl 8100 and the Samsung SPH-A900 as fashion telephone. If we want a mobile with camera, they recommend the Helium Hero, and if we prefer music, the LG Fusic.
The company of statistics web Compete, has published an interesting post that shows us which are the 20 most popular web sites of The United States. The interesting thing is that only this elite of 20 websites overcame 20 million unique visitors in the last October. The graph clarifies it:
Work.com brings a “Guide to start a Gardening Businessâ€, to help you get started in turning your hobby into a successful gardening business, but we can apply in almost every new project.
 In their own words: “By learning about the many local, regional and national resources available , you can increase both knowledge and profit, and build a strong client base in your local community.â€
They give four outstanding action steps that I summarize bellow:
Pat Croce, make us remember that in this new world full of competition, our best weapons are fresh ideas that can distinguish our products or services.
But yes, some times we can face a mental blank at our drawing board and then take us to the right moment to explore new ways to come up with creative thoughts.
Because thought its true, by learning their brainstorming patterns, we can demystify our creative thought processes and generate better ideas with more regularity; it’s also true that activities as daydream considered by many as a waste of time are actually invaluable pieces of the creativity machine.
Are you thinking in introducing a 2.0 service in your company? Blogs, wikis, social nets … Is undoubtedly a complicated world in which some advices will not come badly. In that way, Dion Hinchcliffe offers nine ideas for those chiefs who consider putting their company in the Web 2.0 world.
The most important thing, affirms Hinchcliffe, is to assure the facility of use. That anyone is capable of using the new tool without a workshop. Without forgetting that we must explain the users why it has introduced and how it is going to do easiest their life.
As for the application control, we must support ourselves in a balance: Not to make it empty and clean, hoping the workers to contribute the whole content, or to exaggerate the fear of losing control on what the users do with our tool. Instead of censuring, intervene only if it is indispensable.
We neither must forget to include in our wiki or our social net an effective search service. This way, when we upload the company contents that the workers should know, they will be able to find them without problems.
But not everything is going to be a technique in this adventure: To have attorneys who really are interested in the project (even if they are external and not habitual ones of the company) and to insure that the tool solves users needs, will be also two essential points.
Source: ZDNet
Paul Lemberg, bring us the “Ten Entrepreneurial mistakesâ€, we can usually find in our business path. He makes us remember that when we are novel is hard to avoid certain mistakes, but in his own words: “Many of the following mistakes are hard to avoid even if we are an old hand.â€
1. Big Customer Syndrome. Following the new idea of diversifying our customer market, Lember affirms that: If more than 50 percent of your revenues come from any one customer you may be headed for a meltdown.
2. Creating products in a vacuum. After you or your team have a brilliant idea, don’t spend many time implementing it. And if you don’t get a good response, go on to the next idea.
3. Equal partnerships. Can seem fine and fair at a first glance, but as your personal and professional interests diverge, it is a sure recipe for disaster.
Actually, you can here about entrepreneurship almost everywhere, but to listen that this new culture of creativity has saved capitalism is quite surprising.
Newsweek made us remember than about 30 percent of the U.S labor force, run their own businesses and almost half of the university graduates start their own business during their careers.
Even most important, they confirm that most U.S. job growth and new technology comes from entrepreneurial companies instead of capitalism companies.
In other words, that old and strong capitalism became an entrepreneurial capitalism in order to survive in this changing world.
Monster, specializing company in career services has announced an alliance with MSN to provide services in ten European countries.
Just think, this collaboration will allow the employment portal to achieve major visibility of their employment offers across the MSN net, while offering a new service to their subscribers directly from their homepage.
Nowadays Monster’s services are available trough MSN in United Kingdom, France, Italy, Belgium, Spain, Norway and Sweden, they will extend Denmark in November 2007, and to Holland and Germany in January 2008.
Forrester’s report defends the capacities and knowledge of mature workers as company assets.
In opposition with the British press and blogsphere that have filled lately with commentaries about how the path of new technologies, in continuous transformation, needs young workers, in conditions to fight with the digital age; now Forrester’s report tries to finish with this attitude of scorn towards the major IT workers.
The affirmation that claims that mature people have difficulties to adapt to technology is “irresponsible and simply false”, as Phil Murphy makes clear in his report, directed to “avoiding the war” between young and mature workers.