“Some are expecting the cleantech graveyard of startups to start filling up. But how companies wind down, sell off their assets, or morph into slimmer versions of their former selves, is a personal choice for the companies and investors […]”
From my Upstarta perspective, I mostly observe a fail in designing a sensible business model, and organisational structure. And yes, funding (or conscious absence thereof). If you keep doing things a certain way, the results will tend to be similar to the way they went before.
[…] clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch said it would offer “substantial payment” to MTV’s The Jersey Shore’s cast members to stop wearing the brand on air. […]
Now there’s an interesting new revenue stream: I’m sure they can find lots of other brands that don’t want to be linked with such a show either!
You know the placeholder texts when you do a site or document mock-up, the famous “ipsum lorem” (See the link to learn about its origins).
Now Jason Cosper has updated this centuries old concept for today, turning it into hipster speak with some online and green buzzwords sprinkled in. It comes in varieties “hipster with a shot of latin” and “hipster neat”. See Hipster Ipsum!
You end up with fun like:
Lo-fi messenger bag whatever, single-origin coffee VHS lomo ethical Austin helvetica wolf iphone pitchfork. Vinyl wolf four loko, carles whatever wes anderson echo park +1 synth. Beard raw denim vinyl, american apparel next level cliche dreamcatcher banksy banh mi fanny pack 8-bit. Etsy fap photo booth lomo. Etsy fap wayfarers shoreditch, carles cardigan bicycle rights twee marfa raw denim freegan. Stumptown mcsweeney’s farm-to-table, brunch twee DIY carles fixie you probably haven’t heard of them williamsburg homo tattooed four loko. Four loko you probably haven’t heard of them mcsweeney’s brooklyn artisan, pitchfork banh mi carles single-origin coffee thundercats organic cliche american apparel synth put a bird on it.
It does look a tad like linkspam, but since there are no actual links it shouldn’t be a problem – and you wouldn’t have this on a live site anyway unless it shows actual mock-ups.
I’ve worked from home for over a decade now (on-and-off) and overall it’s served me – and the companies I’ve worked for – very well. Now of course I run my own company and have a home office.
It’s not for everybody, and it’s not suitable for every type of job or necessarily all the time. I do think it’d be good for more companies to consider options like part-time telecommuting as a first step. Doing this opens up their “skill pool” to include stay-at-home parents, which is a huge and awesomely skilled and motivated group of people.
