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My friends Thomas & Gina recycled their yard signs into a herd of dinosaurs for their son Sam's 4th birthday: The T-rex and the triceratops are from Obama signs; the Stegosaurus is from a Mark Warner sign.

{UPDATE: LinkedCells sold to FutureGlue, a Swedish software firm, a few days after I posted this. Thanks to them from the LinkedCells team for making the sale and transfer process so easy. Good luck!} LinkedCells is a software product that allows Excel users to easily…

I posted a craigslist ad yesterday to get rid of a couple of old desktop computers that have been sitting idle in my basement. Despite the machines being obsolete and not having monitors, I got 42 emails overnight from people who wanted them. The responses…

Successful software exists to solve a problem; be it boredom or too much stuff. One way to drive traffic to your site and improve your search engine ranking is to write a helpful guide to solving the problem without your software. It is important that you…

We're having performance and mail server problems with our shared hosting plan from UltimaHosts, so this discussion of mail problems on shared servers was very interesting. Our problems are with performance, rather than being blacklisted, but the consensus of not doing real work on shared…

Thinking about getting business cards printed? Once you have a nice logo, check out these opinions about where to get your cards. VistaPrint gets slammed. When ordering, it is a good idea to have the back matte, as many people like to make a few notes on a…

New entrepreneurs are often paranoid that someone is going to steal their idea. With time and experience, most come to around to Howard Aiken's point of view, "Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down…

TechStars is a Boulder, Colorado based clone of Y Combinator. They are doing their first round of companies this summer. They provide $5k/founder, plus office space, servers, classes and some pretty serious contacts. They take 5% of the company. They have received 175 applications so…