Just watched a very interesting and eye opening documentary called Food Inc. about the current state of the food industry and how a hand full of companies are controlling the entire food chain. Even though the movie shows the state of the food industry in the USA, I would assume a similar system exists in more of the developed nations. (more…)

This afternoon, after having played the Ariel board game (5+) with my young daughter, my older daughter and my wife, we were in the mood to play a board game and decided to check on the app store. We found Scrabble featured on the app store and since I had always been a fan of scrabble decided to give it a try even though it was priced at $10 / £6. ...

Ever since I bought my iPad, I have not been using it much except for some casual browsing and my daily dose of morning tech rss feeds via. The main issue is that since iOS4 is not available on iPad yet, I would have to close and switch between numerous apps to get to the social media outlets that I frequent such as Facebook, Twitter, Techcrunch etc. But with the new app Fliboard, all my favourite feeds are in place in a slick magazine...

So I have car insurance, home-owners insurance, health insurance and now I need to decide whether to add small business insurance on top of that. So I started to look into insurance options online. I found out that the term “small business” insurance is actually a catch all phrase to describe a dozen different insurance products. I realized that before I could even begin to decide whether I wanted to purchase insurance and what company...

New small business owners expect that they will need to pour time, energy, and financial resources into building their new business. Unfortunate, many do not focus the same amount of energy into building a solid business plan. The business plan should be the foundation of your business. Just as in building a house if the foundation is not rock solid your business may slowly fall apart. On the other hand, if you spend the time and mental...