ODesk, Digital Content, and the Rapidly Growing Freelance Writing Market When I graduated from Indiana University in 2008, I was leaving college with a liberal arts degree, a lack of any clear direction of how to make money with said degree, and unwittingly stepping into the worst American economic environment in seven decades. For myself,…
One Freelancer’s Tips and Tricks For Becoming Your Own Venture First, I must make a bit of a confession. I myself am a wealthy online freelancer. I’ve been one for five years, and I admit that I have a problem. That problem is, I’ve found in my experience that freelancing can be one of the…
A Business that Cuts-out the Middle Man: Always a Good Strategy [dropcap style=”style1, style2, style3, or style4″]A[/dropcap]s a Chicagoan now for five years (and a New Yorker before that), one thing I’ve always been able to count on as an urban dweller is the annoying, frustrating, and potentially costly process of finding a new apartment. …
Putting Out Your Digital Thumb; Lyft Aims to Bring New Meaning to ‘Catching A Ride’ A few weeks ago, we profiled new cab provider UberCab, which is quickly gaining a dedicated following in cities around America and Europe with its alternative, intuitive cab services. With an integrated mobile approach, geared toward removing the guesswork usually…
Scrapbooking, 21st Century-style In the few years since its original release as a beta in 2010, photo-sharing and social media community Pinterest has gained incredible traction both here in the United States, as well as in emerging communities around the world. Designed much like a bulletin board or pin-board you may have seen…
Not the Sean Parker You May Have Been Introduced To Like many of the players and events in the early days of Facebook’s story, the image most people have of wunderkind entrepreneur and infamous social climber Sean Parker is most commonly the one portrayed by Justin Timberlake in The Social Network. That Parker is presented…
The Micro Job Market is Booming The Internet is notable for its ability to sustain the expansion and contraction of never-imagined markets on a daily basis. From EBay to Facebook to the bitcoin debate that is grabbing headlines today, economies and new market opportunities have risen from seemingly nowhere to command millions of dollars of…
We’ve Come a Long Way Since Napster Since Napster first introduced the world to digital music accessibility over a decade ago, the music industry and its role in the digital realm has been consistently challenged and redefined, both by new competitors and by the Recording Industry of America and its multitudinous lawsuits against digital music…
Changing The Paradigm Many entrepreneurs aren’t familiar with what Bitcoin is or exactly how it works. And those who have read about Bitcoin online have most likely been subjected to misleading information, thanks to a lot of lazy journalism by writers who don’t have a clue what they are talking about. There are a lot…