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There are lots of ways to get additional capital to expand a home-based business. But before you look outside for financing, leaving the decision about your company’s progress and merits to someone else, consider these six ways under your nose to finance your home-based business:Personal SavingsSavings are easy to tap and involve no paperwork.The negat

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How to finance a business is one of the main concerns that every new business person has to resolve. There are two main ways of financing a business, equity financing and debt financing.The majority of start-up or small businesses use limited equity financing. As with debt financing, additional equity often comes from non-professional investors such as frien

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You’ve got the concept. You even have the consumer base. But how do finance your home based business? One of the great ways to finance your home based business is by obtaining a government loan. The process is fairly simple, as the government is big on trying to support small business owners like you by helping to finance your home based business.The

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There’s no denying that today’s business and finance sectors have become more competitive than ever. It has become critical for professionals to not only have the necessary skills to succeed, but the certification employers are looking for.This challenging environment has always posed a potential problem for the busy professional trying to take a

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Purchasing a new vehicle requires more than just deciding what type of car to buy and how much to pay. Unless you have a lot of cash saved and can buy the car upfront, you will have to decide upon some type of financing.Before choosing a car finance company, you will want to compare prices and rates. While it is convenient to have the car dealership set up y

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HI All, With an office in Phoenix, AZ, bugs finance was founded by group of students from Arizona State University. Bugs finance is known as being a leader in the lending industry. Founded in 2002, bugs finance is a subsidiary of D and E financing. Bugs Finance delivers excellent customer service along with the security of being part of one of the best mortg

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Starting a home based business is a fantastic way to earn additional income part time or full. You can build a six figure or higher residual income using your home computer and a few hours of your spare time each week. It is estimated that each day nearly 200,000 new people log on to the internet for the first time. Many of these people looking for a home ba

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Lesson 6A little bird was flying south for the winter. It was so cold the bird froze and fell to the ground into a large field.While he was lying there, a cow came by and dropped some dung on him.As the frozen bird lay there in the pile ofcow dung, he began to realize how warm he was.The dung was actually thawing him out!He lay there all warm and happy, and

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Lesson 5A turkey was chatting with a bull.'I would love to be able to get to the top of that tree' sighed the turkey, 'but I haven't got the energy.''Well, why don't you nibble on some of my droppings?' replied the bull. They're packed with nutrients.'The turkey pecked at a lump of dung, and found it actually gave him enough strength to reach the lowest bra

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Lesson 4An eagle was sitting on a tree resting, doing nothing.A small rabbit saw the eagle and asked him, 'Can I also sit like you and do nothing?'The eagle answered: 'Sure, why not.'So, the rabbit sat on the ground below the eagle and rested. All of a sudden, a fox appeared, jumped on the rabbit and ate it.Moral of the story:To be sitting and doing nothing

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Lesson 3:A sales rep, an administration clerk, and the manager are walking to lunch when they find an antique oil lamp.They rub it and a Genie comes out.The Genie says, 'I'll give each of you just one wish.''Me first! Me first!' says the admin clerk. 'I want to be in the Bahamas , driving a speedboat, without a care in the world.'Puff! She's gone.'Me next! M

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Lesson 2:A priest offered a Nun a lift.She got in and crossed her legs, forcing her gown to reveal a leg.The priest nearly had an accident.After controlling the car, he stealthily slid his hand up her leg.The nun said, 'Father, remember Psalm 129?'The priest removed his hand. But, changing gears, he let his hand slide up her leg again.The nun once again sai

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We all know how massive of a securities fraud Bernard Madoff perpetrated on Americans.Some of the more recent estimates put the losses suffered by victims of Madoff’s scheme at $65 billion.Most also know that Madoff’s Ponzi scheme had many international tentacles.But until I read a recent article in a Dutch newspaper, and researched a few [...]

Miss the chance to walk the show at Javits or take in the offsite events during the ICFF? Check out our photo gallery where we've collected all the stuff that caught our eye:PSFK's 2009 International Contemporary Furniture Fair Gallery

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In the latest evidence that the Obama administration may soon end up with more czars than in the entire history of pre-communist revolution Russia, President Barack Obama announced that he’ll be appointing a cyber czar to his administration and for the first time for any American administration will seriously put the potential issue of cyber [...]

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Here's a list of 33 interesting links we've posted on Twitter this week. To stay in touch, be sure to join the conversation and follow PSFK on Twitter. Gawker: Microsoft Wants You To 'Verb Up' And 'Bing It' Silicon Alley Insider: Best Buy Wants To Fund Your Startup (BBY) Continue reading 33 Fresh Links: PSFK Twitter Round Up

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This week Vogue Nippon, in collaboration with avanteguard Japanese fashion house Comme des Garcons, celebrated the launch of “Magazine Alive”, their new pop- up shop in Tokyo’s trendy Aoyama district. On hand to fete the event were some of Japan’s most prolific fashion editors, artist Takashimi Murakami (who designed the second… Continue reading T

Topics：psfk, lens, of, changes, behavior, influence, trends, ideas, culture, business, Fashion, Comme des Garcons, Hedi Slimane, Karl Lagerfeld, Martin Margiela, Pop-up shop, Takashi Murikami, Vogue Nippon

Zipcar has taken to a using a bit of street theatre for an unusual advertising stunt in Washington DC. The car sharing service recently set up scenes in the middle of two busy sidewalk locations to promote their services. Penn Quarter Living… Continue reading Zipcar's Unorthodox Street Scene Advertising

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We recently noticed the fantastic photographs of Jan Kempenaers. The images above are from a series called "Spomenik: The End of History". Although it's almost hard to believe these… Continue reading The Photography of Jan Kempenaers

Topics：psfk, lens, of, changes, behavior, influence, trends, ideas, culture, business, Architecture, Arts &, Culture, Design, Monuments, photography, Yugoslavia

Business has been pretty good at PSFK HQ. We've been hiring and therefore we outgrew our little corner where we had the luxury of a huge pin-board wall. We used to publish photos of our wall frequently but somehow we stopped. Anyway, there will be no more - this is the last photo of the wall with bits and pieces of things and… Continue reading Good By

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We suspect that his girl is wearing this mask on the New York 6 train because of allergies but seeing her wearing such an engulfing brightly colored head-piece so soon after the Swine Flu panic makes you take a second look (and then a photo with your phone)…

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Philadelphia is adding another unique touch to it's waste recovery program. Last week we saw Philly's recycling trucks wrapped in colorful graphics - and now, Inhabitat shares the news that the city is rolling out over 500 solar powered, compacting garbage cans. The bins can hold about eight times as much waste as a… Continue reading Philly Installs

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Interior designer David Carter has just launched what he's calling London's smallest boutique hotel. Set in a house that has traditionally been used for photo and video shoots, Carter has applied his quirky style to offer a 'home from home' for photographers, stylists, art directors, designers, buyers, models and anyone in the creative and fashion industries

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PSFK readers may remember that we got George Parker to interview Missy from SuicideGirls at our LA conference a couple of years back. Since then, the alt-porn business has been experimenting with new formats including the iPhone. Their site has just announced that they've just released for free the SuicideGirls Flip Strip iPhone app which… Continue re

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Chinagrass is the name given by some to classify contemporary Chinese folk music, often influenced or performed by Chinese minorities. In a hour long podcast documentary, Zoe Baxter explores this little known genre, interviewing producers and musicians from two of the genre's leading groups: Mamer and Hanggai.The singer /… Continue reading Podcast Do

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Greypants is a side project from a group of architects based in Seattle. At the 2009 ICFF fair, they were showing off their impressive "Scrap Lights" - hanging lamps made out of salvaged corrugated cardboard. Contemporist has more photos of the lights here Continue reading Scrap Lights by Greypants

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For the 62nd Pecha Kucha Night in Tokyo, game developer Mark Cooke presented the results of a challenge he set for himself: create 10 games in 10 hours. In that time he made games for the iPhone, the web and the Mac. His presentation takes us on a tour of each experiment, revealing exactly what an… Continue reading Building 10 Games In 10 Hours

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Earlier this year at the Guardian, Clay Shirky of Here Comes Everybody, made the prediction that book publishers would soon turn to on demand manufacturing solutions as a response to the media landscape becoming increasingly digital.Recently we came across On Demand Books based out of New York. Like a… Continue reading Movable Type 2.0 - Books Manufac

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Multi-disciplinary design studio Round have won the Invitation category at the Museums Australia Multimedia and Publication Design Awards. The Melbourne-based studio won the coveted prize for their… Continue reading Melbourne's Round Wins for 'Walk, Talk and Chalk'

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In a week’s time Microsoft will be launching its new Internet Search site, Bing, previously code named “Kumo”. Microsoft tapped Interbrand to conceive this moniker, which is meant to be a verbable phrase. Their hope is that in 6 months time we’ll be “Binging” things rather than “Googling” them.Reviews have… Continue reading Microsoft Wants you

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A while ago PSFK wrote about Melbourne's recent rebirth of craft via the Craft Cartel. The Sydney Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef project is another such example that craft is back. The… Continue reading The Sydney Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef Project

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I actually own one of these circuit board business card holders as one of my friend gave it to me on my birthday, it’s a great way to get people’s attention when giving out your business cards.This saavy little business card case with its techno-appeal will make you the envy of all your peer [...]

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Debuting earlier this year, Confluences, a modular seating collection by designer Philippe Nigro has been drawing a lot of attention and awards. Confluences picked up a Red Dot: "Best of the Best" award and Young & Design award at Milan. The puzzle-like seating elements made by Ligne Continue reading PSFK Interview: Designer Philippe Nigro

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Gothamist reports that an urban mini-golf course will be opening up in Brooklyn this summer, starting on June 6th. "The Putting Lot" will be installed inside a formerly trash-filled vacant lot within the transitional neighborhood of Bushwick. Each… Continue reading The Putting Lot: Urban Mini Golf

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In this interview with Charlie Rose, architect Frank Gehry talks about his life and work. He tells the talk-show host that while considering succession, he's enjoying working and sharing his knowledge with younger architects, but worries that he hasn't allowed them to make mistakes and therefore grow professionally.At one point he gives some insight into

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As with many things that come out of Japan, you half expect them to be completely different to what we would expect, but this is just totally different to what you may think of as being the norm. This is toilet tissue Japanese style. Obviously the wrapping is very stylish and yet once opened you would [...]

Topics：zedomax, Advertising, Art, Business, Business Ideas, Consumer, Cool, Crafts, Design, Graphics, Household, loo roll, novel, paper, printed

For anyone who can remember the million dollar homepage was a brilliant idea and yes, it did raise the owner a million dollars. Therefore, this poster will remind you that where the internet is concerned anything is possible; you just have to get in there with the idea first. Features:By Alex Tew (2005)Full colour poster printGloss [...]

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Of all of the examples we’ve seen of upcycling—turning waste materials into new products—teddylux is undoubtedly the most adorable. Each plush bear, elephant and bunny made by the Georgia business is fashioned from a discarded cashmere sweater. Cashmere animals...

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Things in miniature are quite fashionable these days, so it is little wonder that the filling cabinet has not been miniaturized before. The filling cabinet has been initially created so that the user can place business cards inside, but it can be used for any purpose really and for an added bonus, it has a [...]

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These come in handy, when going to meetings etc. However, unlike some products this voice recorder will capture over two hundred and seventy two hours worth of high quality sound. The user can easily start to use this device without any prior knowledge at all. Once finished the data can easily be transferred through the [...]

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This past Tuesday legendary graffiti artist Claw Money unveiled her new collaboration with Sunglass Hut in a splash opening at the store's Herald Square outpost. The theme of the event was the internet, and on hand clicking away at guests was digital sensation Cory Kennedy and the Arab Parrot. In keeping with… Continue reading New Collaboration: Claw

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A primary function of seating is to provide comfort. But some do it so well, long term use can be unhealthy. Hence the term couch potato. NY based ErgoErgo is looking at seating in an entirely different way. At ICFF they launched a new seating concept designed by Alan Heller Continue reading ICFF: Exercise While You Sit

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Seasoned entrepreneurs know there’s a big difference between a great idea in the mind and a successful product in the hand. Here to bridge that gap is Quirky, a service that uses a collaborative process to actualize killer ideas...

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Brooklyn based artist Ebon Heath creates complex mobiles made out of beautiful jumbles of letters and words. His typographic sculptures free text from… Continue reading Ebon Heath's Sculptures Create Beautiful Visual Noise

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Members of the Reware project have hacked older-model iPods into video game style music sequencers, bringing a new life to the "obsolete" technology. See them in action below.[via MAKE]… Continue reading Making Music With Ancient iPods

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For some, the simple rooster on a clear bottle with a green cap is a forgettable product on shelves busy with hot sauces, but for many, the bird proudly endorses a spicy concoction worthy of its cult following. This increasingly popular sauce is Sriracha and its history is not made up of calculated promotions or… Continue reading Sriracha: When Repu

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Ball Nogues, a studio of forward-thinking designers and builders, created an unusual shadow structure in the summer of 2005 to illustrate their approach to aesthetics entitled, Maximilian's Schell. The temporary outdoor structure is a mosaic of carefully fabricated "petals."The unique aesthetic grew from manipulating Mylar and reinforcing the materials…

Harlem-based Kikkerland Design has been producing unique objects since 1992. At this year's ICFF, it wasn't so much what they had displayed that was getting all the attention, but the display itself. Kikkerland purchased 3000 cans of Campbell's soup from local NYC supermarkets and built their booth out of them. At the conclusion of the show on… Contin

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As an alternative to the brown bag and the oft expense sit down lunch, few things are better or cheaper than a delicious styrofoam container of street meat, particularly these days, as increasing numbers of vendors are marrying mobility with haute cuisine. Without having to pay high rents and always being able to go where the crowd is, these lunch trucksR

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As an alternative to the brown bag and the oft expense sit down lunch, few things are better or cheaper than a delicious styrofoam container of street meat, particularly these days, as increasing numbers of vendors are marrying mobility with haute cuisine. Without having to pay high rents and always being able to go where the crowd is, these lunch trucksR

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Someone asked me recently why I write about social media and social change.I write about social media because it’s a multi-layered phenomenon that can lead to significant social change in terms of how consumers engage with businesses and citizens engage with civil society organizations and governments.I have talked about the four layers of social media

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Coming up June 1st and 2nd, is Ypulse's latest Youth Marketing Mashup conference in San Francisco. The gathering brings together participants from the marketing, media, education and non-profit worlds to share research, best practices and the latest strategies on marketing to youth with technology. Check out the full lineup here. PSFK readers can use…

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Coming up June 1st and 2nd, is Ypulse's latest Youth Marketing Mashup conference in San Francisco. The gathering brings together participants from the marketing, media, education and non-profit worlds to share research, best practices and the latest strategies on marketing to youth with technology. Check out the full lineup here. PSFK readers can use…

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Last weekend at the Armory in New York's Midtown, PSFK visited the latest installation of Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto. His Anthropodino is a huge playground set in a drill hall: stocking material drapes a dinosaur-like skeleton to create a cavernous tent. As visitors wander around they meet (and smell) large globules of fabric hanging down from the high ce

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Last weekend at the Armory in New York's Midtown, PSFK visited the latest installation of Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto. His Anthropodino is a huge playground set in a drill hall: stocking material drapes a dinosaur-like skeleton to create a cavernous tent. As visitors wander around they meet (and smell) large globules of fabric hanging down from the high ce

Topics：psfk, lens, of, changes, behavior, influence, trends, ideas, culture, business, Arts &, Culture, ernesto neto

Even as consumer camera drop in price and rapidly increase in quality, none of them could compare to the system researchers at the University of California in Los Angeles are developing. They are working on an imaging system that utilizes "supercontinuum laser pulses" to capture incredibly fast moving events such as neuron communication.The system, dubbed&

At a time when the worldwide economy could sorely use a boost, we were excited to learn of a recent announcement made by Nokia that they will start freely sharing their unused research and development to companies across Finland. The initiative called The Nokia Technopolis Innovation Mill is a three-year joint venture that also involves Technopolis, one of

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At a time when the worldwide economy could sorely use a boost, we were excited to learn of a recent announcement made by Nokia that they will start freely sharing their unused research and development to companies across Finland. The initiative called The Nokia Technopolis Innovation Mill is a three-year joint venture that also involves Technopolis, one of

Topics：psfk, lens, of, changes, behavior, influence, trends, ideas, culture, business, Science, Telecom, Trends In Europe, Web &, Technology, Work &, Business, Finland, nokia, Nokia Technopolis Innovation Mill, Tekes

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