It’s always nifty, of course, to run across somebody who truly “gets” what is happening in the land of microbusiness — especially since it seems to happen so rarely. But what’s better about Dr. Lahm is that he is an academic. And you know what that means, right?

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The inevitable did happen: I tilted my chair, put my feet up on my PC underneath the desk and ended up snoozing. I’d answer some calls, do a cursory check of the email queue, then go back to napping again. At around 11am I ran out into the rain to grab a Subway from across the street. Getting wet reinvigorated me again.

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Nevertheless, there are a lot of big exhibitors there, and of course it’s dominated by hardware vendors. Lenovo, Dell, HP, IBM, Fujitsu, Toshiba… all present and accounted for. There were also tons of vendors with everything from server racks to air and power handlers to cable ties to IT office furniture. Google did have a prime-position booth, though, showing off their search engines and other online services, and there were some jobhunting organizations there too, like Dice.com.

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American Eagle Outfitters recently AJAX-ed up its web design including its navigation menu. What’s different about AE’s flyout menu that’s different from Office Max’ and Eddie Bauer’s navigation redesign is that it actually merchandises within the flyout. Here’s what I mean:

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You will find that even bills that can fluctuate on a monthly basis, such as telephone bills or office supplies, have a monthly average.

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That’s exactly what happened to me when I met a copy machine representative. I wasn’t looking to lease a machine (I did a few years later), but I was searching for someone with a college connection to book a speaking engagement. He happened to know one of the deans, and that tie opened the door.

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Alyssa Krinsky of TVNewser talked Tuesday with CNBC’s Carl Quintanilla, who is the co-anchor of the business news cable network’s Squawk Box show every morning.

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From my experience, financial models you write before your business has launched are not worth the paper they are written on in the startup world. They might be helpful to you to understand your gross and net margins and the scalability of the business, but beyond that their revenue and profit predictability is so low that you cannot base your valuation on them.

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Sometimes I get press releases from organizations that I don't support and wonder why they have me on their distribution list. One of those is the Business Software Alliance, the group that trumpets how stolen software is costing the industry twenty zillion dollars a year, and how we'd all be gainfully employed and how there'd be no national debt and, probably, world peace, if we'd all just pay for the software we use.

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Good processes make a good team. At MobME, I’m implementing a few things I learnt while working at Uzanto: Daily End-Of-Day reports for the team, SCRUM in the morning, and constant communication via a small office and approachable managers. The work atmosphere is relaxed, and people are given time to learn. There’s no fixed time for lunch or a quick smoke. There’s an attendance register and people are held accountable for their work and leave.

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If you have been following my blog, you would know that I am in the process of setting up a small office home office. I am trying my best to find furniture that will not take up too much space, like computer carts, for instance. Since I have quite a few computer systems at home, I have set up LAN networking and now I need to buy one of those LAN Racks too. I don’t know, do you think LAN Racks are necessary for my kind of set up?

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Bruley was a leasing agent for the Oaks at Mill Creek, an apartment complex owned by Village Green Companies. He also lived in the complex. The excuse used by the company was that Bruley had violated employee rules which forbids “weapons in the workplace”. Apparently the company wanted to pretend that Bruley’s private apartment and that of his neighbor are part of his “workplace” -- something tenants might find a bit disturbing.

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According to this Wired article, Adobe may be in the process of taking on Microsoft in the Office Suite arena. Microsoft, the maker of Word, Excel, Access, Outlook and Powerpoint, depends on the Office Suite as its main source of revenue given their product’s extensive rooting into the world’s business computers.

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I was raised by a packrat. Seriously. In my house opening the freezer door would result in an avalanche and a whimsical pirouette would send stacks of papers flying in all directions. As a result I grew into a very orderly adult–until I had a baby. Now I’m sitting at a desk with high rises of books and bills and just enough room to wedge my laptop in between. And I hate it.

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Makes me long for the Office Max Rubber Band Commercial and the Staples commercials....

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