Business 2.0

Lead Well and Prosper: 15 Successful Strategies for Becoming a Good Manager These days there seems to be a plethora of opinions on how to be a manager. I’ve reviewed a couple of good books on what to do when you become a boss, but those were more focused on techniques and methods. I’ve also seen a lot of so-called experts who have figured out the latest, greatest philosophy for business management. I don’t want to point fingers or single anyone out – but you know who I’m talking about. The... Read Full Story

Public Relations, the name alone is enough to give people nightmares, the incessant droning of public relations flyer’s in the e-mail system. Unsolicited, and in many cases unwanted flyer’s over the latest shiny new toy. Now a bunch of bloggers are whining about the whole thing, and while I am sympathetic to the issue, one nagging question keeps on cropping up. At some point the system that is in place today worked, worked well enough that it became a defacto way of doing business on the PR... Read Full Story

We were all wondering what today would look like for Microsoft and for Yahoo now that the deal is a dead issue. While there have been some outrageous things said in the press, the true test is how the companies ride this week out as investors vote on the idea with their shares of stock. This snapshot of stock prices on pre-market action does not bode well for Yahoo, but surprisingly Microsoft is getting some traction this morning with their stock price. This is a good thing, as Microsoft... Read Full Story

This is one of the “don’t get it” weird notices from the lawyer representing Craigs List that was the in take down cease and desist row with Craigs List unofficial blog. The lawyer when explaining the C&D goes on to state that the site was running “deceptive text link ads” that they screen capped. The problem is that they screen capped a lot of Google ads, which is the bedrock process of the 2 dollars you make a month off your blog. Fwiw, we have no interest in shutting down blogs about... Read Full Story

The New York Times is reporting that there is a major slowdown in M&A as well as IPO activity happening in Silicon Valley the first quarter of 2008. The question we are asking is can this same thing happen in Seattle. The answer is most likely yes, but over the last 8 months people have been talking about how to survive a recession in Seattle, as well as other places. If the company here in the Seattle area was smart, they have been hoarding cash so that they have enough money to ride out the... Read Full Story