Holiday shopping season is now officially on

Batten down the hatches.
Well, the usual jump-start to the holiday shopping season isn’t even really over yet and the analysts are already arguing about how we did, with some saying it was a record-setting weekend and others saying sales actually dropped.
Meanwhile, it’s Cyber Monday — the e-commerce edition of Black Friday.
That’s right. Today is supposed [...]

Add this to the rural development mix

You see, this is what I was talking about in my white papers, The Entrepreneurial Economy and The Microbusiness Way of Growth — only, instead of one company hiring hundreds or thousands of rural-based IT workers to supply large corporations, I was envisioning hundreds or thousands of rural-based microbusiness IT firms offering their services to [...]

The mighty and the micro

Our friend Lloyd Lemons recently did a stint of jury duty and found it an exhausting but interesting experience.
Now, he can take some pride in knowing that he beat a certain former presidential candidate in doing that particular bit of civic duty.
Today’s Midday Update from Congressional Quarterly reports that Senator John Kerry recently finished [...]

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