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I’m getting married! Yes, it’s extremely exciting and as a groom to be, I am learning a lot. Oh, I’ve been a part of weddings before – I’m a two-time best man – and I’ve been close to family members who have gotten married with full on weddings. But there is nothing like going through [...]

Just ask Patrick Byrne of Overstock.com : Women spend money!
A recent nationwide study by Frank About Women concluded that females between 40 and 60 are wealthier than any other group of women in America. While advertisers traditionally covet the 20-39 segment, there are 71% more women between 40 and 60. [...]

My ipod died. It was about a month ago and I’ve been doing without for the first time in many months. 11 months, it turns out. The reason I know it’s been 11 months is that this weekend I finally got around to taking my ipod to the Apple store at the local mall where [...]

No, I’m not talking about highly trained monkeys; I’m talking about college students.
Do you work with college students? If you don’t yet, you should consider it. They can be a free (or incredibly cheap) source of labor, and their mental faculties are generally well ahead of their professional skills, so most of them [...]

It’s Super Bowl week here in Detroit and StartupNation is heading to a special NFL players sanctioned event this afternoon. The Sloan brothers are giving a presentation to current and former NFL players and other professional athletes on the value of networking to enhance their career after their playing days are over.
Many players take their [...]

While we "Sloan brothers" have usually been the ones in our family to be recognized as ‘the entrepreneurs,’ now there’s a new force on the scene…
Her name is Julie … and… she’s our middle sister. That’s right… and watch out! Just a few short months ago, she, like so many thousands of others who’ve had [...]

I care what you have to say.
Now that’s a pretty bold statement. Well, let me prove it to you. The StartupNation team is feverishly working on a top secret initiative that I’m not going to tell you about. I will tell you that it has to do with you. It has to do with you [...]

The big news, here in Detroit, is Super Bowl XL. Many citizens are chipping in as volunteers and guides, and many small business and home-based business owners are squeezing their way in to the activities hoping to earn a few of the many dollars to be spent here. I guess you could even [...]

Returning to the War of Words that has haunted our blog over recent months, just wanted to clarify this one:
It’s common to hear someone inject the formal and authoritative phrase, ‘for all intensive purposes…’ as a precursor to a statement.
But it should be ‘for all intents and purposes, blah blah blah…’, right?

This morning I woke up and wondered something that had never occurred to me before. Am I a Googleholic? I mean, what are the signs? Just the fact that I’m wondering about it must be bad, right? Anything with –holic attached to end of it is not something to be aspired to, it’s to be [...]