Learning from Mint

I’d just started using, and loving, Mint a week before they got bought by Intuit. From a user’s perspective, this seems like bad news. From a Web business perspective, as this Slate article points, it seems encouraging and offers some good lessons. Not...

Business owners and happiness

Sue Shellenbarger covers interesting findings from a new Gallup survey in her WSJ column:In the broadest, most-comprehensive survey yet of how occupation affects happiness, business owners outrank 10 other occupational groups in overall well-being, based on the...

WSJ on converting web traffic

The WSJ offers “the three best ways to convert Web traffic into sales” for small businesses: Install a click-to-call feature Chat with customers online Offer a try-before-you-buy program These certainly aren’t the 3 best ways for most small...

Seth on naming

I’m trying to come up with names for a couple new companies and this blog post from Seth is the best advice I’ve come across. It’s a few years old and I think the one tool he recommends has shifted its focus to selling domain names and is a lot less...