Interviews

Small Business Spotlight of the Week: The Nevica Project

Laura | April 19th, 2010

The Nevica Project was launched in 2008 by Jayson Lawfer originally as a way to work on his own time while traveling to and from Italy. Since then, it has become an extremely successful business concept for the art world in this trying economy. The Nevica Project is an online gallery and art consulting business [...]

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Small Business Spotlight of the Week: Lovely Soiree

Laura | April 3rd, 2010

After looking through the site I found a pretty sweet business… Lovely Soiree. Started by Deanna Jue, Lovely Soiree provides custom candy buffets in Atlanta. The website is coming soon once the project has wrapped up on the site so participate now, designers! The project ends April 8. Custom candy buffets will be great to [...]

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Small Business Spotlight of the Week: “Graduate to LinkedIn”

Laura | March 26th, 2010

College graduates graduate into the real world and most of the time the business world so it’s only natural that they learn how to effectively graduate from Facebook to LinkedIn. This is exactly what Melissa Giovagnoli and John Fowler set out to do in their book Graduate to LinkedIn. Melissa posted a print design project [...]

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The (ongoing) evolution of an industry

Mike | March 24th, 2010

Everyone knows that the music industry is struggling, right? Pirating, reduced concert ticket sales, and fair use issues have combined to send record company execs scurrying for solutions and scrambling to figure out new revenue streams. NPR’s On The Media (with our friend Bob Garfield) recently devoted an entire episode to a great discussion of [...]

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Small Business Spotlight of the Week: Afritee.org

Laura | March 19th, 2010

There are so many great organizations out there helping third world countries but I’ve always thought the best thing we can do for third world countries is to help give them the means to educate. Afritee.org, (Join their Facebook group!) is an organization started by Daniel Michalczyk from Oslo, Norway! Their mission is to sell [...]

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Why My Small Business Uses crowdSPRING – Innova Apps, Inc.

Ross | March 17th, 2010

Bryan J. Sebastian of Innova Apps, Inc. shares how his company uses crowdSPRING for logo design and web design and why he thinks other startups and small businesses should consider leveraging crowdSPRING’s community of more than 55,000 designers and writers. More about Innova Apps: Innova Apps, based in St. Charles, Illinois, helps companies by developing [...]

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