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TechShop, Ford Partner on Automotive Innovation Center

Small Business Labs

When TechShop first opened several years ago, it was positioned as a workshop for hobbyists.    But they have learned that inexpensive access to advanced machinery attracts entrepreneurs and inventors, and they have adjusted to better target and serve them.  Web/Tech women work/life balance

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From Behind Bars to Business Owners: How 3 Former Inmates Became Entrepreneurs

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After her release, she found Inmates to Entrepreneurs on social media and figured it would be a place to “hang out until I figured out what I was going to do next,” she recalls. The workshops became a safe space not only to develop her business, but also to connect with others who shared her experiences.

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What is Freelance Camp?

Small Business Labs

" Freelance Camp is modeled on BarCamps, which are open, participatory workshop-events.    We'll post some of our learnings from Freelance Camp later this week. Basically you show up, help pick the sessions and break into small groups and exchange information.    Freelance Camp SF cost $30 and sold out. 

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From Behind Bars to Business Owners: How 3 Former Inmates Became Entrepreneurs

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After her release, she found Inmates to Entrepreneurs on social media and figured it would be a place to “hang out until I figured out what I was going to do next,” she recalls. The workshops became a safe space not only to develop her business, but also to connect with others who shared her experiences.

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41 Things I Did In My 41st Year

Brilliantly Better

Learning to fly was perhaps the most important thing I did this year. As of October 2011, I sold the distribution rights for two of my ebooks to a Korean publisher. But I’m slowly learning to be just an advisor. Held A Workshop On How To Be A Digital Nomad. Did My First Paragliding Flight. Got My First Tattoo.

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Ron Finley, the Self-Proclaimed Gangsta Gardener, Found Purpose Fighting Food Poverty in South LA

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Nearly two years after his first parkway garden, Los Angeles updated the law in 2011 to allow Angelenos to plant food in their parkways. Finley hopes with each workshop the children learn a deeper lesson on how to be more humane. Unfazed, he pushed for change and rallied enough signatures to pressure the city council.

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77 Things I Did In 2010

Brilliantly Better

But the whole process was fun and I learned a lot about how to measure your effort when starting such a task. I confess now that the game took only 15 hours of coding (including some learning of Lua). I used mainly to learn and test the AppStore submission process. Which will continue in 2011 as well.

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