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…Joe Mansfield of Engrave Your Tech. Gorgeous moleskine notebook covers with beautiful original designs is what got our attention. The fact that Joe is making a successful business out of this passionate enterprise is what pushed us to invite him to tell his story. Joe and seven other passionate small business founders will be speaking […]

Our mini-conference is just a few short weeks away. Small and Special, an afternoon for passionate small business owners (and aspiring entrepreneurs) is happening on Tuesday June 30, 2009 from 2pm-6pm in the Georgetown Ballroom in Seattle. We’ll have a total of eight speakers for the afternoon, six of which have already been announced. We’re […]

I realize that people, and especially the media, like to write about trends. And with the economy in bad shape, small is in. This is not to say that there aren’t downsides to a company being small. In general though (unless you’re making something like cars perhaps) I find that the advantages of small outweigh […]

The Seattle startup community is relatively tight knit. While I think some people have valley envy, the smallness actually makes for a group of people that know each other better than they might if there were more folks doing startups. A couple of years ago at a local entrepreneur seminar I met Ksenia Oustiougova, founder […]

As you may know, we’re putting on a little conference at the end of June called Small and Special. The conference is for small business owners and entrepreneur hopefuls who dream about creating a successful business doing something they love. In that vein, two more successful entrepreneurs have signed up to tell their stories. Andrew […]