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3 FaversShareViewed: 8 TimesQuoted: Outsource your daily task and stop making to-do lists in favor of don't do lists — these are just two of Timothy Ferriss' tips for a shorter work-week. The author of <em>The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich,</em> offers guidelines for a plush Blackberry-free life.
Faves climbs in Alexa rank, yet slips on Compete - now sitting at #11 ranked consumer site in Seattle.
1 FaverShareViewed: 9 TimesTony's really good blog post about bootstrapping the financing of a web 2.0 startup. I like his definition of the 3 milestones your company has to reach.
1 FaverShareViewed: 28 TimesAbout 10 times bigger than StartPad, Plug and Play has 118 startup companies leasing space in their Silicon Valley offices.
1 FaverShareViewed: 5 TimesQuoted: Plug and Play Tech Center provides fully furnished offices, instant move in type offices, meeting rooms, virtual offices and network access in Sunnyvale, Silicon Valley,California.
There must be more to their business than searching Wikipedia.
2 FaversShareViewed: 4 TimesQuoted: VentureBeat is reporting that Microsoft has agreed to buy semantic search engine Powerset for somewhere around $100 million, which is the price we previously reported was being offered to the company.
My friend just left MS to co-found this company. Looks like they help you deploy Office Communications Server (OCS) and Exchange.
1 FaverShareViewed: 3 TimesQuoted: Helping you deploy the world's leading platform for Unified Communications.
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2 FaversShareViewed: 3 TimesQuoted: In the post, Twitter cofounder Biz Stone also talks about their aspirations to become a communications utility, and not to worry about the business model too much until their infrastructure is stable.
From the author of The 4-Hour Workweek:
1 FaverShareViewed: 7 TimesQuoted: The financial goal of a start-up should be simple: profit in the least time with the least effort. Not more customers, not more revenue, not more offices or more employees: more profit.
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Based on my interviews with high-performing (using profit-per-employee metrics) CEOs in more than a dozen countries, here are the 11 basic tenets of the “Margin Manifesto”… a return-to-basics call that gives permission to do the uncommon to achieve the uncommon: consistent profitability (or doubling of it) in 3 months or less.
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A public experiment that was better in theory than in practice: "In the end, the restrooms, installed in early 2004, had become so filthy, so overrun with drug abusers and prostitutes, that although use was free of charge, even some of the city’s most destitute people refused to step inside them."
1 FaverViewed: 3 TimesQuoted: After spending $5 million, Seattle officials decided to close the city’s five automated public toilets, which had become filthy and costly.
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