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 - Keeping a project archive in Articles &Resources in OPEN Forum
Feb 27, 11:14pm (1 review) business, knowledge, project-management http://www.openforum.com/thread.jspa?thr...- "Too many companies, however, spend valuable time reinventing the wheel each day. "Every time you treat a known problem as a new problem that has to be solved again, you're wasting time and money," says David Kay, founder of DB Kay & Associates, a Los Gatos, California, knowledge management consulting firm. In fact, Kay says, it's four to 10 times more expensive to relearn how to solve a problem than to have a solution ready to go."
 - The Name Killer: how the wrong name took down a $2-million business...
Jan 22, 10:12am     (7 reviews) marketing, name, startup http://jonathanfields.com/blog/the-name-...- You pour a ton of money into a new venture, devote relentless hours to get it going. It's perfect in every way. But, within hours of launching, you realize something is wrong. Not leaky faucet wrong. Not temporary signage wrong...but head-on crash, fatally wrong. You picked a name no one can say. Or perhaps it is impossible to remember.
 - How I Almost Invented Social Bookmarking -- Jarkko Laine -...
Jan 13, 12:56pm  (1 review) business, risk, idea, start-up, innitiative http://jarkkolaine.com/2008/01/12/how-i-...- I could have invented del.icio.us.
I was nineteen years old, a fresh computer science student with a lot of spare time and tons of ideas. A younger and less busy version of who I am today. I had all the tools I needed, and the right idea.
But no. I didn't create del.icio.us in 1999. Joshua Schachter did - four years later.
 - Why Would You Need An Office? -- Jarkko Laine - Insanely interested...
Jan 9, 8:19am (1 review) business, office, independant, work-from-home http://jarkkolaine.com/2008/01/09/why-wo...- From the page: "why do you want to work in an office? What benefits do you get to compensate with traveling 2 hours per day to work and back, eating in expensive downtown cafeterias, working with set hours in an office space that you didnâ€t decorate yourself?" Is that what an office is for us: a place to go to play a grownup?
 - Why Your Ideas Are Best Implemented By&8230; You - FreelanceSwitch -...
Dec 8, 2007 6:34pm  (1 review) business http://freelanceswitch.com/the-business-...- From the page: "It never ceases to amaze me in the web world how companies can go and acquire a website, and expect it to develop and mature just as it had before the acquisition. This never seems to happen. Over time the acquired site usually become stagnant or falls apart, with the purchaser wondering why his perfectly-sound investment has gone belly-up. Never mind that the culture of the company has drastically changed, or that different people are now working on it. Itâ€s still the same product, right?"
 - IttyBiz & Go Big Or Suck: A Guide To Being Unforgettable
Dec 7, 2007 1:26pm (2 reviews) business http://ittybiz.com/go-big-or-suck-a-guid...- From the page: "Now why did I make it over to Bobby/Michaelâ€s delightfully schizophrenic blog instead of, say, yours?
He said the word â€oepootang” in my comments.
That, my friends, is a way to get yourself noticed."
 - IttyBiz & Target Demographics, The Sequel
Dec 6, 2007 2:34am (1 review) business http://ittybiz.com/target-demographics-t...- ok no penis spam this time - just a good run down of how to decipher your target market.
 - IttyBiz & Identifying Your Target Market, Or Why I Don’t Want A Monster...
Dec 6, 2007 2:32am (1 review) business http://ittybiz.com/identifying-your-targ...- What marketing techniques you can learn from Penis Spam - what to do and not to do to reach your target market. (Naomi is one funny broad).
 - Is Your Business About You? -- Jarkko Laine - Insanely interested...
Nov 29, 2007 8:11am (1 review) entrepreneurship http://jarkkolaine.com/2007/11/29/is-you...- From the page: "If you are already running a business, is it about you or do you prefer staying in the anonymity and letting the products do the talking? If you are only thinking of starting a business, how would you like it to be perceived?"
 - IttyBiz & What Tiger Woods Can Teach You About Marketing
Nov 27, 2007 9:38pm (1 review) business http://ittybiz.com/what-tiger-woods-can-...- It is all about follow through! So many people do 99% of the effort to get your undivided attention and then never bring it around to the finish.
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