If we're depending more and more on a small business ecosystem, and we have to think of local economies less like machines and more like parkland, then one of the things that we have to start thinking about is how to facilitate the businesses that support a small business ecosystem, like this example from Detroit: …
Continue reading Good Ideas: Market support for emerging companies
Not to brag, but Chuck Marohn ain’t the only one who can make cookies. Well, James Rucker did. I turned on the oven.
Attempt to document the reason I’m sitting here. #lonelylifeofabandparent #disregardthegiantbutt
St X high school hockey game. James in pep band so decided to stay for game. I have no idea what is going on.
mapsontheweb: Change In Medium Household Income By County 2007-2012 Wow.
Another random lategram from Cincinnati Maker Faire in the fall. A yarnbombed cannon. Try that, Jodi Kessler!
The good folks at Podcatalyst asked me back recently to do a second interview with them (read: I must not have sounded too crazy the first time!). This time, host Clay Banks wanted to focus on one element that gets a fair amount of attention in The Local Economy Revolution: why making our local economies work better …
Random latergram: half of a belt sander race at Cincinnati Maker Faire. They have to have costumes, of course.
Some days a little encouragement that you might be doing something that matters...well, matters. What a pleasure, then to discover that Brian Dowling of Pathways to New Community Paradigms had written such an insightful review of The Local Economy Revolution. You can read the entire review here -- and Brian's deep dive, systemic analyses are worth …
Continue reading Holy mackerel… another kind review from New Community Paradigms.
Yes, it’s pretty. It still sucks.
The Local Economy Revolution Has Arrived 