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30 Compelling Reasons to Start a Business

Up and Running

Offering a product or service that is lacking in your area is a great reason to start a business, Drew Phillips, owner of The Angry Beaver, a gay/straight hybrid bar in West Virginia, says. “Me, Reason #24: The internet offers more sales possibilities. The community and the public response have been phenomenal.”

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There’s an Internet Showdown Brewing

Andrew Payne

Back home in West Virginia, our Verizon phones have no 3G service. This scenario captures a core net neutrality concern: are we moving to an Internet where our access is determined more by business agendas and less by technical issues?

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There’s an Internet Showdown Brewing

Andrew Payne

Back home in West Virginia, our Verizon phones have no 3G service. This scenario captures a core net neutrality concern: are we moving to an Internet where our access is determined more by business agendas and less by technical issues?

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My Net Neutrality Experience: Frontier Hijacking Searches

Andrew Payne

While home in West Virginia for the holidays, I had an interesting Internet experience. I noticed when I Googled “Amazon” from my browser search bar, I got the Amazon home page, not the Google search results page I expected.

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The Coming Bits and Atoms Disruption

Andrew Payne

I’ve written recently about the entrepreneurial lottery , and the long odds for many pure-software Internet/consumer/mobile projects. Instead, I’ve been working on “bits and atoms”, or as I think about it: the intersection of mechanical design/fabrication with the Internet ecosystem and Moore’s Law advances.

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12 Questions: Meet Maximilian (USA)

crowdSPRING Blog

After my year as exchange student, one thing led to another – I came back for college (in West Virginia of all places), got married, got a job, moved around a couple times – you know, the usual things people do. Most things to do with computers, gadgets (love my music collection), and the internet. Sumo wrestling.

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5 historic billboard campaigns (or everything old is new again)!

crowdSPRING Blog

In the last decade if the 1800s, the West Virginia Mail Pouch Chewing Tobacco company would pay farmers to use their barns as outdoor advertising for their product. The viral affect of the ads, decades before the internet, made this one of the most effective (and cost-effective) advertising campaigns ever.

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