Business 2.0

Image via CrunchBase Madrona Venture Venture Group joins the blogosphere, adding a much needed Venture Capital voice for everyone to follow. Let’s just hope they keep this one up, right now, many startups need to know what to expect when it comes to working with a VC, or just trying to survive 2009. Madrona is a venture capital company here in Seattle who has been in business since 1995. I have been to at least one of their speeches through MIT Venture Lab, and have had the fortune to...Read Full Story

Integrity Consultants was developed out of a passion for Market Research and the effects that Mystery Shopping, one of the most widely used Market Research tools, has on business. Having served this industry as a Mystery Shopper, myself, then as an Editor of client reports and Scheduler/Recruiter of mystery shopping assignments, I was able to obtain knowledge from a variety of different resources and develop a broad perspective of the industry, itself. During this process, I was able to...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

Guest Post by Paul Song When John asked me to share one of my business experiences as a guest contributor to his blog a few months ago, I started to think which one would be the most interesting and relevant. Should I talk about starting an IT services company in my 20’s and what it was like to learn everything “on the job”? Or maybe the experience of taking a company public and playing with the “big boys” on Wall Street? Or maybe the humbling experience having our stock plummet by over 80...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...Read Full Story