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Deal Radar 2009: Shipwire

Posted on Monday, Mar 2nd 2009

Shipwire offers outsourced warehousing and shipping services for online retailers and small business clients. Businesses use Shipwire for on-demand e-commerce order fulfillment services through a global warehouse network. With warehouses in Los Angeles, Nevada, Chicago, Toronto, Vancouver and the UK, Shipwire allows merchants to reduce shipping costs by locating inventory closer to buyers. This shipping

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From Greenpeace To Green Power: Sungevity CEO Danny Kennedy (Part 5)

Posted on Sunday, Mar 1st 2009

SM: We have discussed your interface with the customer. What is the process with your contractors once you have a qualified lead to provide to them? DK: We call them pre-wrapped customers because they are not only qualified customers, but from our backend design system we have already developed the kit. We provide the specified

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Future of Journalism

Posted on Sunday, Mar 1st 2009

The Kauffman Economics Bloggers conference kicked off on Friday morning with a speech by David Warsh. David covered economics for The Boston Globe for 22 years and, earlier, reported on business for The Wall Street Journal and Forbes. The speech explored the historical and directional movement of the newspaper business, battered today by the loss

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Reconnecting with Economics

Posted on Sunday, Mar 1st 2009

I haven’t spent as much time thinking about economics since college, when my second major was the subject on every mind these days. I have dedicated the last 15 years primarily to my first major, computer science, and my first love, entrepreneurship. But that has changed in the last six months. I was invited by Tim

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Designs of the Week: Blogs

Posted on Sunday, Mar 1st 2009

By guest authors Charles W. Bush and Kathy Hwang of 3Strand Innovation, a brand, design and business consultancy. Thanks so much for your feedback last week on ways to improve the user interface design for SramanaMitra.com. Based on your comments, it looks as though the recurring themes are: 1) Readability/Distraction Points: Use of flash, ads, font

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