Working @ Disco Technologies

As a technology person, I see people making the same mistakes over and over again. You are starting a small business? So why are you trusting your business’ lifeblood to big, centralized technologies and big, centralized corporations? There is a local swap meet slash farmer’s market that meets in town every week or two. As [...]

Local economy recovering slowly | economy, local, recovering – Victorville Daily Press The Inland Empire gained 17,800 jobs in the first two months of this year compared to the same period in 2011, according to keynote speaker John Husing, a chief economist at the Inland Empire Economic Partnership. And that happened without additional construction jobs, [...]

If you are at all aware of the world around you, you know that the U.S. and most of the world is experiencing an economic downturn. As part of our national response, the government has pumped billions or even trillions of dollars into keeping the financial industries going, including commercial banks, savings banks, credit unions, [...]

When The World Changes Around You, You Must Change With It Many times, when we are starting a business, we start with what we already know. We act as though the world we live in has always been the same, and that the business models that our former employers utilized are necessarily the best ones [...]

Healthy Sacrifices We Made To Start Our Online Business | MyWifeQuitHerJob.com There are only 24 hours in a day so something in your schedule usually has to give in order to find the time to start your own business. When my wife and I first started our online business, both of us had full time [...]

What If You Never Make Money by Blogging? I ask this question because I see people getting into this blogging industry and starting a make money online blog to make money. They think that is how money is made online. In all true honesty, if you think that you are an IDIOT. Yup you are. [...]

In a world where we are constantly bombarded with advertising (“buy this, buy that”) and media celebrities telling us what to do and think (“fight global warming, support our troops”), it is very easy to lose track of what we should be doing. You did not start your own business so that you could be [...]

The last couple of weeks, I’ve been reminded once again how important it is to have some preparations in place for devastating events. For example, if your home burns, how do you put a roof over your head? How do you get the resources needed to bounce back? Whether tornado, earthquake, hurricane, flood, or fire, [...]

Starting, growing, and operating a small business is an all-encompassing job. It includes many tasks that we do not always associate with business. For example, if you are in business, you are affected by (and in turn have some minimal effect upon) the economy. You are affected by taxation. You are affected by education. You [...]

Anthropogenic global warming is taken as a proven fact and an article of faith, but many climate and weather scientists disagree. Science, if you did not know, is a religion. This means that it may be time for the founding of non-AGW-believing branch. The founder of The Weather Channel recently wrote a guest article on [...]