Think what we are saying is too basic? Or too repetitive? “People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.”Dr. Samuel Johnson It’s what Mark Taylor calls “a Blinding Flash of the Obvious.” Music by Frenz, from Pod Safe Audio. New to SmallBizSurvival.com? Take the Guided Tour. Like what you see?…
Development vs. rural housesBig rural projects, like the spate of new ethanol plants, can create problems as they run over the top of existing houses.“Counties should limit where people can build homes in rural areas…. But if a house already is there, it can be difficult to resolve a conflict….” Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette. Enterpreneurship…
Time for more rural entrepreneurship news headlines! One Governor puts his budget money into rural broadbandSouth Carolina Governor Mark Sanford “included $2 million in his executive budget to help provide high-speed Internet access to areas, such as Allendale, through direct and matching grants.” Island Packet Online.And, from New York, The Ithica Journal profiles rural broadband,…
Our friend, Romanian entrepreneur Cristian Dorobantescu tagged me for the 5 things meme, where we found out that he has played chess on a professional level! I don’t have anything that neat, but here are five MORE things you probably don’t know about me. I’ve lived in Oklahoma City, and outside of Luling (Texas) and…
Some rural communities develop, and some wither. Some development efforts succeed, and some terrific attempts are miserable failures. What makes the difference? Michael Holton with the Center for Rural Affairs explores the Top 10 Reasons Rural Community Development is So Hard to DO! You have two ways to read it. Read the entire article in…
Our friend Chuck Huckaby pointed out this great story, at CBC Radio’s Vinyl Cafe. It’s the story of a bakery, how it started, how it is part of the community, and the larger picture of rural development. But mostly, it’s just a great story. Five of them decided to open a bakery. They found one…
More rural entrepreneurship news to share. One Stop Support for Small BusinessesNebraska (USA) is using local colleges to bring together all the agencies that help small business. They are also creating a uniform entrepreneurship curriculum. They are calling it NET Force Nebraska. Economic Impact of FestivalsDo festivals contribute to your local economy? Take the example…
Well, she-who-must-be-obeyed has spoken so we all line up and do. 1. I still don’t know what I want to be when I grow up! (I’m way over 60 so I should probably come up with something soon?) 2. In the mid 1970’s I wrote the pseudo-code (COBOL) for the first stand-alone, non-centralized, small computerized…
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