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 [...]

You may trust Microsoft, but I do not. You may trust Facebook, but I do not. You may trust IBM, but I do not. You may trust Google, but I do not. You may trust Oracle, but I do not. It is not in my best interest to trust—or rely upon—any large corporation to do what benefits me when I give them control of my pocketbook. A few years ago, a number of automobile dealers found out that they were merely sharecroppers on the massa’s land. Every few years, a number of gas station owners find out that they were merely sharecroppers on the massa’s land.

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 [...]

It is unfortunate that someone who is starting a business enterprise needs to start out by thinking about legal issues, but such is our society. Some would argue that this is European-style democratic socialism in action. I would argue otherwise, that it is in fact a prelude to a more fascist-style society, a society in [...]

I have been working on the launch of another business venture. This time I am acting more as an advisor. It is exciting. As I talk to people in my regular job, I find that quite a few employees wish to be something more than employees. For those who have never been owner-managers, it is [...]

This Is a Good Time to Launch the Right Business And it was a welcome opportunity for us to realize, well, yes, it could be a very good time to start a business. In fact, we can now think of at least four compelling reasons why. We can, that is, if and only if the [...]

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 [...]

Population Density One of the biggest challenges for the CCCDC to overcome as they work to get Cincinnati’s downtown and uptown revitalized is the lack of a dense enough and sufficiently socioeconomically diverse population. The stores wait for people to move downtown before they commit to providing services, while people won’t move downtown until there [...]

Going green: Communities make their own currencies – SGVTribune.com GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. – Diana Felber brought her groceries to the checkout and counted out her cash – purple, blue and green bills that are good only at businesses in western Massachusetts. Known as “BerkShares,” the colorful currency is printed by a nonprofit group to encourage [...]

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. [...]