Next March, many of us Vancouverites are going to be sweeping up the confetti from the 2010 Winter Olympics — but some of us will be recovering from that civic-chaos hangover by diving straight into another whirling cloud of madness, the geek conference extraordinaire, South by Southwest. (No, not the cool music festival. Or the [...]
Entries from August 2009
Vote for us at SXSW!
August 21st, 2009 by Lauren · No Comments
Kudos to City Council
August 12th, 2009 by Emira · 2 Comments
Lauren’s post earlier this week about family businesses in peril got me thinking about a recent decision made by our City Council (that’s Vancouver’s City Council) to cancel “car free days” in my local neighbourhood. What do car free days have to do with small business? Give me a minute to explain. For those who [...]
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Sign of the times: The decline of family businesses
August 10th, 2009 by Lauren · 5 Comments
Things are tough all over right now, but since we like to keep things focused on small businesses, I want to zoom in on a story that started with The New York Times and which is garnering responses from around the web. It started with this article in the Times that points to some very [...]
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