Seriously, it’s about a startup incubator called TechStars and it give a little glimpse into the world of young, tech entrepreneurs full of vim and vigor.  This world is so different from mine.  Not better, just different.

I guess there are better alternatives to gambling on your new idea for a technology startup building the latest Ajaxy Web 2.0 app and having to put your own money down and max out your credit cards. Get some venture capital and team up with a lot of others doing similar work at an incubator.

Microloans are administered similar to a line of credit and are intended for the purchase of machinery and equipment, furniture and fixtures, inventory, supplies and working capital. Maximum maturity for one of these loans is six years. The loan cannot be used for paying debt.

Find out more about the Microloan program and other opportunities for financing your small business at the SBA web site.

Read about it in Walking the Line When You Work From Home.

Recently A List Apart published the feedback they got from other work-at-home businesses.

Here is a very creative video explaining how RSS works.

Read Seth Godin’s Email Checklist

Take note that things are not always better at a startup. You just have more of a chance for freedom than at a large company.

Here’s a quote about that from the article:

Working for a small company doesn’t ensure freedom. The tree structure of large organizations sets an upper bound on freedom, not a lower bound. The head of a small company may still choose to be a tyrant. The point is that a large organization is compelled by its structure to be one.

In my experience I have been fortunate (and also at the same time not so fortunate) to work for the type of workaholic entrepreneur that wants to make the company the number one priority in everyone’s life. I was fortunate in the sense of learning from the experience (enough said).

There’s been a recent spat of articles on the web regarding this type of personality. It all started with Jason Calcanis’ post, How to save money running a startup (17 really good tips) which was picked up by TechCrunch and the post, Calacanis Fires People Who Have A Life. To which, Calcanis has responded with Can you have a life and work at a startup company?.

This quote says it all from Calcanis:

My work *is* my life.

For $1 per letter you can buy a word that appears in the English dictionary and you can change the definition to visually mean MY SITE, at least on The Big Word Project.

At first TBWP (am I starting something here?) reminded me of The Million Dollar Homepage but it is really not that shameless. However, it is brilliant. Paddy Donnelly and Lee Munroe have developed an experiment to explore what different words mean to different people and they are going to make some money at the same time.

The catch for people who would want to use TBWP for Search Engine Optimization is that you have to use a single word and it must be in the dictionary.

I think maybe it is people who are, you know, “self-employed”. I don’t doubt that there are more numbers of entrepreneurs in South Florida in than in other cities. However, I would venture that if we did the ranking by average profit that SoFla would be way down the list.

Just my opinion.

The site plans to be a resource for Business Owners, Marketing Professionals and Web Developers in all things related to Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), Keyword Analysis, Pay-Per-Click Advertising, etc.

We’ll keep an eye out on Link Again and wish them the best.