July 2010
21 posts
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Race Face
Race Face is a performance bicycle components company based in Vancouver, BC. They design, manufacture, and distribute beautiful, high end products. So, what qualifies them to be nominated? Well, first is that they do it all themselves. Not only do they hold their own against “giants” in the industry (billions of dollars a year companies like Shimano and SRAM) they also frequently...
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Outlier Clothing Company
Abe and Tyler make incredible cycling clothing. Their philosophy (http://outlier.cc/philosophy.php):
The sun is rising, the air clear, the city unfolds below you as you reach the top of the bridge. Your legs are spinning fast, heart pumping, maybe you are sweating just a touch. It’s a magical feeling of exhilaration and liberation that comes from riding a bike in a city. Inside trains,...
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Blazin Brittle
I’m nominating my wife, Marie-Clare Prisco. Maybe you automatically toss out spousal nominations. Go ahead. But thanks for the opportunity to stop a moment and write about her anyway. Marie-Clare has been trying to find a way into her own life for many years. She’s worked for Caterpillar, Abbott Labs, and American Hospital Association as a corporate communicator. She’s also...
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Hip-Hop Word Count
The Hip-Hop Word Count is a searchable ethnographic database built from the lyrics of over 40,000 Hip-Hop songs from 1979 to present day. The database is the heart of an online analysis tool that generates textual and quantified reports on searched phrases, syntax, memes and socio-political ideas.
The next development phase of the Hip-Hop Word Count includes adding: data, a basic visual...
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Cube grenade for Renew Adelaide
Hugh - I’d like to nominate Renew Adelaide for a free cube grenade - they are into rejuvenating inner-city locations by organising to use vacated buildings, shops and offices for short-term projects such as art exhibitions. The idea is to bring some life and activity back into parts of the city that are run-down/seedy/unloved with the hope that increased temporary activity will lead to...
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Small Town EMS
This isn’t a grand cause, it isn’t a brilliant start-up idea, it is a request to help 4500 people in the rural northern part of Sumner County Kansas. It is an effort started by a few people at Belle Plaine Emergency Medical Services in Belle Plaine, Kansas to provide the best possible care to the people living in and traveling through their service area.
The service is trying to...
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"I Love Your Guys" - submitted on behalf of a...
http://www.iloveuguys.org/
The last contact he had with his daughter was via a text message saying I love you guys sent to both his wife and his own cell phone. His daughter was being held captive by an armed gunman who eventually turned the gun on himself but only after killing the girl.
And then his life changed. I mean, here was a very successful developer who lieterally dropped EVERYTHING...
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VerdeStrategy Helps Clarify Lasting Value
VerdeStrategy believes in the power of the entrepreneur. We also believe entrepreneurs can be even more powerful if they can communicate with clarity and purpose. Investors look for entrepreneurs with a clear sense of purpose and vision — and clarity in communicating that purpose and vision. Too often, however, words get in the way of good ideas. Investors look for companies that have the...
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Calling for a reform in business education
Here’s an overview of the manifesto for a new generation of business schools. We think we need revolution in business education, not evolution. Cheers Hugh!
The evidence is explicit: achievement in business school is not correlated in any way with success in business.
In fact, even holding a business degree at all does not increase likelihood of success, increase either starting or ongoing...
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Gangplank and the Cube Grenade
Gangplank Collective is a collaborative workspace and tech incubator devoted to helping talented individuals and innovative companies create the new economy in Chandler, AZ. Yes, we’re starting small, because that’s how great things happen. Start small and tight, grow large and powerful.
We are a group of connected individuals and small businesses creating an economy of innovation and creativity...
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Whistleblowers - or - The Sami Parliament
I run the only website for whistleblowers in Norway Ad:varsel, and start my redesign-process and the cooperation with a new partner Vox Publica this autum. In this re-opening of the site, it would be cool to have a Cube Grenade.
The Sami Parliament in Norway sure could use a cube grenade, both for internal motivation and external buzz. The Sámediggi is the parliament of the indigenous sami...
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Newhall Coffee for a Cause
Mitch McMullen lost his older brother, Corey, to leukemia. And since then, it’s been his mission to use his Newhall Coffee Roasting Company business to serve his community.
Leukemia is a cause close to his heart. And through that passion arose the Newhall Coffee for a Cause program.
The program, which launches July 4th is McMullen’s brain child and launched in order to redirect...
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Crazypenny
Wanting to help people sell their stuff and make a buck, a friend and I are launching Crazypenny: a combo consignment & auction house. People will put stuff on consignment with us, and we’ll do our darndest to sell it. Anything not selling quickly gets the price dropped. Eventually, it gets put on auction, opening bid: $0.01. We take pride in the sell, not the selling price!
[Note:...
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SharePlus, take SharePoint anywhere with you!
We are a young startup from Uruguay, South America, called SouthLabs. We are behind the development of the first iPad client app for SharePoint, SharePlus (http://tinyurl.com/39srqla). SharePlus stores in the device all the navigated information of a SharePoint repository (docs, tasks, events, images, wikis) enabling offline browsing, real mobility of the data.
We are basically a bunch of geeks...
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Free the data!
I am recommending Todd Park for a cube grenade. Todd is the Chief Technology Officer at the US Department of Health and Human Services. He has been a dynamic force and leader in pushing this Federal agency to open up it datasets and health surveys for all to play in (or as he says, ‘unlocking the inner mojo’ of the agency). His strong belief, followed up by his nonstop action, is to...
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The Dalit Freedom Network Australia (DFN)
The Dalit’s are unknown in Australia. Blank faces appear when you mention them. However 22million Australians (total population) is less than the 250million Dalits in India: men & women who according to the caste system are treated less than animals. Less than animals! DFN aims to educate Australians about the 250million Indians who cannot educate themselves. Through education, school...
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The Perfect Drug
Once upon a time, not so long ago, there was a bountiful and busy society. And people of this society decided that if they were to be more bountiful they would need to be more busy. So they slept less, ate less, they even cut back on breathing and stretching. How could that be? Well they had discovered the perfect drug. It didn’t interfere, much, with busyness: it stimulated...
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Wake up the solution is out there - what's your...
Wake up…
Why is it business owners are happy being busy but not being productive (me included)?
Busy is easy. Productive is harder.
Business owners who invest in themselves are more likely to be productive. Invest in themselves training, breathing, exercising, reading and they’ll become more and more and more productive.
Ignorance is not bliss. It’s stupid.
Reading great...
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Employer Of The Future
I’ve met dozens of unemployed middle aged men and women; they used to be VP’s and Sales Directors. They used to travel and had a great deal of responsibility; some were married to their jobs. I know, I was one of them but it still hurts me to see the ones with desperation in their eyes at networking events.
Then late last year I met a man with a different idea. He is unemployed, middle aged...
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Design on the Dirty. For the Truly Wicked.
No wasting time. Here it is:
I created Design on the Dirty. I provide virtual interior design services for the wickedly stylish. I listen. I translate. I initiate. And then I deliver you You.
I do that by getting what’s in your head, into your space… all at a fraction of the cost of working with a designer in the traditional way. And frankly, it’s sexy as all hell.
I’ve spun a bit...
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Little shop of happiness
This could make a movie.
Hungary, 2006. A retired teacher of French and Italian (Diane Keaton) and a retired ear-nose-and-throat specialist (Meryl Streep) open a pastry shop. They can’t afford the rent anywhere in the city, so they open it in a small town (Solymár), beside the highway.
It’s not your typical pastry shop, however.
It’s more like something you would find in the...