This is a very special post for me to write, to congratulate some good friends on a job well done. first met Rashmi many years back at TagCamp while i was still working at Simply Hired in 2005, then again at Dana Street Coffee in early 2007 when i was consulting for Mint.com. was just checking my own account on SlideShare , and some 2.7 MORE >>

If those 140 characters seem daunting, here are a few things to think about. One of the Golden Rules of Twitter is that you ought to "Give before you get." In other words, don't turn Twitter into a self-serving, one-way broadcast channel. Help your audience first and yourself second. Here are 11 sensible alternatives to try: 1. MORE >>

The entrepreneurs and companies that will prosper and outpace their competitors during the next two decades will be those that outthink their competitors strategically, not outmuscle them operationally. Specifically, the winning companies will craft a focused strategy that gives them a distinctive advantage. have no direct competition? So what? MORE >>

A business plan that attempts to account for all the possible changes that will happen in the future is obsolete before the ink is dry on the page. Why is it that business plans never come to life? traditional business plan is head-centered; it's an exercise in what business owners think they should do. This is the step before the business plan. MORE >>

The Bush Institute has, under the leadership of Amity Shlaes, launched what it calls the 4% Project : a massive intellectual and research effort aimed at better understanding economic growth and, ambitiously, pushing the American economy toward four percent annual GDP growth. We grow a network of family and friends in a given place. Why do we move? MORE >>