Archive for December, 2008

Microbusiness Owners Experience Microinequities

Today our internet connection was disrupted. For 4 hours. During peak business hours (mid-morning to early afternoon) on a Monday.
If this happened to a “regular” business, it would be unacceptable. The internet service provider would likely take measures to mitigate disruption, for example, by conducting work during the weekends or after business hours.
But this is [...]

Revisiting the microbusiness choice

One of the things that often happens as the year winds down to a close is that we get into a reflective mood, a bit of Janus revisited, looking back at the year that was.
We try to identify the things that went well, the things that didn’t quite go as planned, the things we [...]

Meet Dawn Rivers Baker

Dawn Rivers Baker and I first crossed paths in September of 2005. I discovered her website The MicroEnterprise Journal, which she has been publishing since 1999, and asked for an interview for a microBusiness project that I was working on.
She was warm and friendly, exceptionally helpful, and very knowledgable about microBusiness issues. Little did [...]