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Home-based businesses provide an opportunity for a better lifestyle for parents and childrens, and more shared time, according to Polaris Media Group.

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Indian Start-ups: Diversify globally!

Diversification of products and accessing offshore markets are two key needs for Indian start-ups. That’s a key message from “Envisioning the Wired SME” conference, organized by The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) and IndiaMART.com, at the Sheraton, Saket, in New Delhi on Saturday.

Americas, Europe, Human Infrastructure, Innovation Economics, NEWS, start-ups »

Vienna: US-European Entrepreneurs & Start-ups to Spark Growth

Start-up culture is vital, and this U.S. and European meeting of heavyweights, and upcoming entrepreneurs, will meet to discuss successful start-up sectors in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe, from November 15-17 as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week 2009.

INNOVATION, Our World, start-ups »

This morning noticed these excellent slides on slideshare, of creative workplaces.
Well done to Serdar Belbag.
The 2thinknow view is that companies seeking to become employers-of-choice, need creative workspaces as an element of their strategy.
What do you think? Would it inspire you to work in these offices?
Or is your work or dream office more creative?
Post the photos in our new flickr group: Creative Companies

About Creative Companies
Creative workplace. Employers of choice. Ethical corporations. Nice seats. Micro-finance projects. Creative Capitalism. Innovation Teams. Inspiring workplaces. Not cubicle farms (unless they are cool). Cool.
The places you …

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COMMENT — Across the Western world increasingly large chains dominate most products you buy. Groceries. Petrol or gas. Liquor. Books.
In difficult times,  support independent stores not large chain stores. Not mega-supermarkets.

Cheaper Groceries & Fuel.
Genuine competition means we pay less. Smaller players create competition.
Small independent stores are friends of the family.
Consumer choice is one of few weapons we have to create competition. Sometimes, we can sell our shares in such monopolies.
The only two forces controlling many industries are:
a) consumer choice and
b) shareholder activism.
Especially since, any Govt regulation or constraint on market …