Global Business - 8 Ways to Challenge Yourself

I just read an intresting article from Steve Rucinski who states the following 8 points to challenge yourself and your team in order to be ready for a global small business:

1. Think of the current constraints within which your team or business operates. If those constraints were gone, what could you do?
2. Identify your current greatest business challenge. What could happen if this were eliminated?
3. Consider and entirely different way in which the organization could be structured. What would be the consequences?
4. If your present distribution channels disappeared, what would you do?
5. If your current sources of material disappeared, what would you do?
6. Suppose your staff members were all from different parts of the world. How would your staff be different?
7. If you could increase sales by 250 percent in one year, what would be the consequences?
8. What would happen if you could reduce the time it takes to do your work by 50 percent? What would you do with the time?

Google Web Toolkit 1.3 released: Open Source

Google released the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) version 1.3 under open source licence. See the GWT Blog entry or the site of GWT (including demos)

Matt Sweeney: "Web 2.0: Getting It Right the Second Time"

Matt Sweeney, Senior Engineer on the YUI (Yahoo! User Interface Library) team at Yahoo!, delivers a talk on best practices in frontend engineering at Yahoo!'s Developer Day/Open Hack Day, September 29, 2006. In my opinion it's a very good talk!

Yahoo! UI Extensions Library: resizing elements

Jack Slocum wrote an interesting article about how to use the Yahoo! UI Extensions Library (YUI) for resizing elements in the Web . He presents code snippets and examples which show how easy it can be used.

9 tips for making 90 seconds count in an investment pitch

Jason Stitt wrote an informative article about stating your ideas in 90 seconds. Imagine you're in an elevator next to a venture capitalist who could invest millions in your idea - you've 90 seconds to outline your business idea.

Folksonomy: 7 Tips for Naming Your Web 2.0 Startup

Michael Zhang wrote in the Folksonomy blog an interesting article about naming your Web 2.0 startup. He defined the following 7 rules for you Web 2.0 company's name:

1. Keep Length at a Minimum
2. Be Generic or Be Original
3. Encourage Word of Mouth
4. Capture the .com
5. Avoid Using Hyphens
6. Avoid Domain Hacks
7. Keep it Meaningful

Categorized Ajax Tutorials

That's really the bulkiest list of Ajax tutorials I've ever seen. And the best thing is, each tutorial is categorized within the following categories:

Getting Started
Bookmarklets
Chat
Drag
and Drop
Dynamically Content Loading
Forms and Autocomplete
File
Uploader
Image/Display/Edit/Gallery/Lightbox/Slideshow
Keyword
Suggest
Live Search
Misc/General
CodingParadise
CodingParadise
Progress Bars
Rounded Corner
RSS
Shopping
Cart
Lists/Sorting
Tabbed Pages
Trees
Username
Availability
Voting

Check that out!!!