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Are Middle-of-the-Road Web Designers an Endangered Species? (and What Can They Do About It?)

Mar 13, 2010 12:01am

If you’re a web designer please do not take any offence at what I’m about to say but your business model is about to get broken. Don’t get me wrong, great web designers will always find and do great, creative and useful work. I’m talking about the guys and girls in...

UNIKEA: Hacking Flatpack Furniture into Custom Design

Mar 12, 2010 3:19am

I’ve written here before about small companies that piggyback their businesses on the size and brand awareness of another – including three IKEA-related businesses. Pictured above, UNIKEA (unique IKEA), a made-to-order range of furniture from London-based designer Kenyon Yeh, takes this idea in a different direction creating “personal identity from ubiquitous...

Tell Me Why You Started Your Business – Get a Plug

Mar 10, 2010 10:58pm

Pic: Flowers&Fleurons Why Did You Start? Thanks to everyone who answered our quick survey a few weeks ago about what topics you’d like us to cover. One of the fave replies was ‘inspiration’ and more particularly what motivates entrepreneurs to start their businesses. I think this is a cracking idea. Personally I’ve learned...

Fiverr: What Would You Do for $5?

Mar 10, 2010 6:41am

Pic: spencermann Five bucks isn’t a lot of money – but it’ll still buy you a bite to eat, a cold beer or even your very own personal monster designed and delivered in sticker form (above). Fiverr.com is a marketplace where people offer to do things for $5 – and it’s suprising...

Packlate: Niche Travel Site with Deep Discounts

Mar 9, 2010 11:51pm

You would think that sites like Expedia and TripAdvisor had the online travel world more or less sewn up. But every now and again a new site pushes its head above the parapet and starts to carve out its own little niche. Given the amount of coverage its received in The...

CribSocial: Taking Online Connections Offline

Mar 9, 2010 7:44am

There are, by my count, something like a gazillion social networks. There have been over 2 million created on Ning alone. But that isn’t to say that you can’t start a successful social network project catering to a well-defined niche or by bringing something new to the table. One current trend...

Retropreneur: Start Your Own Newspaper with Newspaper Club

Mar 8, 2010 11:51pm

At the same time as the worldwide newspaper industry is in serious trouble, UK startup Newspaper Club is making newsprint cool and attracting works and commissions from the likes of the BBC, Wired, Penguin and Last.fm. Currently in beta, Newspaper Club is an online service that makes it easy for “people...

An Interview with SpikeBall Co-founder Chris Ruder

Mar 8, 2010 12:01am

Spikeball is a volleyball-like game where two teams of two compete to keep the ball in the air before spiking it off a circular sprung net on the ground. Originally marketed as a beach game, it’s now taking off in backyards and parks across America. But it’s also a rather unconventional...