Rose Cantine

China bashing is very popular these days and the mainstream media know it. Yesterday, I read an article about California banning ginger imported from China because they use illegal pesticides. Today the toy industry gets its turn in the spotlight with an article on shoddy Chinese toys but at least this one focuses the blame [...]

Marc Andreessen has posted an excellent piece on why not to do a startup, part one of his series on his guide to startups. The stress, hiring and firing people, the hours, battling with co-founders and investors can drain the joy out of even the most devoted entrepreneur. But, I am an optimist and I [...]

I was having breakfast yesterday with Alexander Casassovici, a young entrepreneur from Paris, who was in Amsterdam for the Nextweb conference. Alexander’s startup Wavestorm develops technology for the “Internet of Things” — machine to machine communications via Wi-Fi. We were talking about how this tech “bubble” is different from the first one in the late [...]

Here are the first eight chapters on turning your blog into a media company. They are based on my experience as the founder of Muniwireless.com.
Part 1: birth of Muniwireless
Part 2: first year of Muniwireless
Part 3: finding a business model
Part 4: the Ninth Circle of Hell
Part 5: becoming a niche online publisher
Part 6: miracles happen [...]

I came across the Open Coffee Club for entrepreneurs, which is located in cities around the world. Local entrepreneurs create clubs on Meetup.com or Upcoming.org and meet.
When I saw this mentioned on Read Write Web, I thought, “The bubble is back. This looks like First Tuesday.” But I will be going to our local coffee [...]

So how did Microcast take Muniwireless to the next stage, from a blog to a vertically integrated media company (as I mentioned in part 6)? What is Microcast’s business model? Sam Whitmore, who runs Sam Whitmore’s Media Survey interviews Joe Panettieri of Microcast. Sam writes:
Take a look at MuniWireless.com. It’s fronted by blogger Esme Vos, [...]

If you work freelance or have small business with no staff, you need to organize everything yourself and work efficiently. Fortunately, there are a lot of online tools for time tracking, invoicing, project management, shared workspaces, customer relationship management, etc. available from Freelanceswitch.com.

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