Mobile Hippie

It is meant to calculate hourly rate for freelancers, but it asks enough questions that it could be used for a business with a little tweaking. Nice too.

Corby has an extremely effective call to action on his homepage. It is a Flash video tutorial of why you should hire him to design or develop your Web or CDROM project. The same format can be equally effective delivering any call to action message.

Jason Fried has an interesting take on the growth of his small business. Growth doesn’t have to mean more people if it is the right people. Growth can be the strategy for the product without being a human resource strategy.

Um… well cool concept… but the bike looks weird–really weird. I think I would rather have a long bike with Stoke Monkey.

I love my reel mower. I can quickly knock out my front and back yards without using a drop of petrol, but my yard is too small for a bicycle powered reel mower. Not that I would want that much grass, but the task would be whole lot more fun.

Living in North Portland, it is nearly always better to rent. If you live anywhere else, this may help you decide what you should do.

This is the first article in a three part series on the Mint blog. There is some sage advice in here.