Friday Free Business Idea: salads

September 22nd, 2006 15 Comments Noah

The people in California are crazy about healthy lifestyles. We have so many gyms, you can’t smoke in your own house and we have a fair amount of healthy restaurants. The one problem I have is sometimes I just want a quick, large and healthy salad. I know my friend Laura would definitely agree. Plutos [...]

I am a Virgin Day

September 21st, 2006 12 Comments Noah

Is today! Did you forget? Okay, it is not a real holiday but I am declaring it for myself. What does it mean?
I have erased all my blog feeds from my reader and started from scratch. So maybe a better title would be “born again feed reader day.” Virgin just sounds better.

Why did I do [...]

My Mom’s Theories

September 20th, 2006 15 Comments Noah

My mom is the cutest little Jewish mother ever. I will try to find a picture when I get back from Los Angeles. At work they call her “q-tip” because of her afro. Anyways, my mom has two sayings that have always stuck with me and I wanted to share them with you.

The squeaky wheel [...]

The Corporation of One

September 19th, 2006 10 Comments Noah

I think many people don’t realize this including myself but everything starts from somewhere.
An individual

Dell started from a dorm room with Michael Dell wanting more from computers.

IBM was created by Thomas Watson wanting to make calculating more easily.

Google was started after two Phd students want a better ranking of information.

Hewlett-Packard got its life in [...]

Carnival of the Capitalists #?

September 18th, 2006 12 Comments Noah

I guess about 100 years ago I signed up to host the Carnival of the Capitalists. What that means is that nearly 50 bloggers submit articles that 1 blogger (me) organizes and presents on my website. I run the carnival of marketing and the biggest problem I found was that so many articles are shit. [...]

Book Giveaway #3: The Starfish and the Spider

September 17th, 2006 11 Comments Noah

Auren recently introduced me to Ori Brafman the author of The Starfish and the Spider. I was fortunate enough to get an advanced copy and devoured the book. This is going to be the next big business book.
The idea of the book is how leaderless organizations succeed and how to create them. Some of [...]