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Mahalo is a human powered search engine. Yea, I said that right, and it’s probably not what you think. What comes to my mind when I hear ‘human powered search engine’ is Google’s server room with a few thousand high school cross-country stars wailing away on human-size hamster wheels. Because that sounds reasonable.
Nope, instead there […]

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If you haven’t heard, an 11-year-old boy shot a gigantic hog down in Arkansas. Apparently it’s larger than the previous record holder, a Mr. Hogzilla. Awesome.
How to create a market
Do something extraordinary. Look at this freaking animal. Now that you have everyone’s attention:
Praise your supporters by posting their comments on your website.
Rile up your adversaries […]

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Courtney Tuttle is holding a competition to guess his income earned during the month of May. If you guess within $1, you get the money. That’s easy money, and I’m all about easy. The following is for said contest:
Rules:

Create a post on your blog, copy these rules and paste them into the post.
Make a guess! […]

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I’m havin a good time tonight. My roommate and I ended up on the porch havin some drinks, listening to good music and chatting. Right now we’re watching “The Breakup” (which is turning out to be pretty awesome). Though, none of that is here nor there.
I have a job tomorrow. I’m replacing some old Macs […]

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Over at North x East they’ve posted an excellent guide on the basics of freelancing. I’ve done some freelancing, but I have a lot to learn, and I will be using this post as a starting point. The article touches on a variety of topics including:

Branding
Finding Work
Pricing
Invoicing
Collecting

It even touches on expanding your freelancing business into […]

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There’s a new carnival up! It’s over at A Mogul to Be this time.
I’m very interested in the the Quest For a Million. This is a great idea. These guys are basically looking to accumulate a million bucks and document the whole thing. They’ve just begun. I plan to follow this very closely. They’re using […]

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Wow they’re really pumpin these puppies out! This time it’s over at Pick the Brain.

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Ahhh… nothin like a fresh top 10 list on the blogosphere to get your blood flowing. StartupSpark has posted this one. I was delightfully surprised to find myselfs saying ‘me too!’ to a lot of them. Though, that may be my wishful thinking.
The ones that most apply to myself:

You always think to yourself, “I can […]

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Oh man, I’m falling behind. There’s a new Carnival of Entrepreneurs, and it’s on the road now. It’s over at the Dragon Slayer’s. Check it out, and remember, if you want to read more the other 8 CoE’s are hosted at StartupSpark.

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There’s a new Carnival of Entrepreneurs posted over at startupspark.com. Basically, it’s a call on people to write about any and all things entrepreneur. If you have any interest in running your own business, I suggest you go take a look. There’s a lot of great information there from a lot of successful people.
I took […]

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