Some business links

I was researching terminology for a translation and hit a couple of links. Infoentrepreneurs.com is apparently the Quebecois mirror of a UK topic database about small business concepts.  And then Wifcon.com is a set of articles about American federal procurement for contractors.

This kind of stuff - and probably the contents of any reasonable business course (wasn't there a reading list for a "virtual MBA" I saw a couple of years ago?) - are grist for the mill for a semantic model of small business, which is what I'm zeroing in on here.

Education startups

Wise words about education startups.

Content organization technique

Here's a good notion for writing long-form journalism: start with a stub article, then keep expanding it with additional sections, always back-linking to the longer story. FastCoLabs is trying this under the rubric of "slow live blogging", which is a pretty entertaining way of putting it.  And I like it.  There are a lot of things that just work better this way, like my 2008 botnet spam project for example.

Opportunity: web curation

Yeah, yeah, I know.  People always talk about this.  But seriously - with the demise of Google Reader and the deemphasis of Alerts, this guy has put two and two together to realize that the big players don't actually like curation.  It's not drivable, it doesn't pop ads, and .. well, curation is for understanding, not money.  He links to a good little article on Facebook's extortion model, too.  Interesting stuff.

Corporate control is anathema to usability.

The takeaway: there's still a lot of need for curation tools.  If the big players don't like them, well, more opportunity to go around.

Acquisition = failure

An interesting take indeed.  I like it.

Freelance business ideas

And freelancing means services, and some services can be packaged.  Anyway, suggestions - good ones:

• Startup data/metrics analyst
• Full service blogger
• Podcaster
• Startup video producer

You know which one I like (data, data, data).

Metrics

They're what's for dinner.