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“What Is Love…Baby Don’t Hurt Me, No More!…”

By ladinventures • Feb 15th, 2010 • Category: Real Estate News, Uncategorized

Is Your Business Getting Enough Love?
by 
Sonia Simone

Like everyone else on the social web, I just read Seth Godin’s new book Linchpin. It’s a big book, not so much in number of pages, but in number of ideas.
One core theme is the idea of emotional labor — bringing more human feeling and connection to your work, [...]

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Photos - Twin Cities Business Startup Meetup (Minneapolis, MN)

By ladinventures • Feb 12th, 2010 • Category: Real Estate News, Uncategorized

via meetup.com

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“Tell Me What To Do!”

By ladinventures • Feb 11th, 2010 • Category: Real Estate News, Uncategorized

If you’ve ever hired or managed or taught, you know the feeling.
People are just begging to be told what to do. There are a lot of reasons for this, but I think the biggest one is: “If you tell me what to do, the responsibility for the outcome is yours, not mine. I’m safe.”
When asked, [...]

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Frightened, Clueless or Uninformed?

By ladinventures • Feb 8th, 2010 • Category: Real Estate News, Uncategorized

In the face of significant change and opportunity, people are often one of the three. If you’re going to be of assistance, it helps to know which one.
Uninformed people need information and insight in order to figure out what to do next. They are approaching the problem with optimism and calm, but they need to [...]

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Congratulations to Jason Sandquist

By ladinventures • Feb 7th, 2010 • Category: Real Estate News, Uncategorized

Congratulations to Jason Sandquist for making this weeks edition of “People in The News” section in the Minneapolis / St Paul Business Journal!
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If I Can Change, and You Can Change, Everybody Can Change!

By ladinventures • Feb 3rd, 2010 • Category: Real Estate News, Uncategorized

February 1, 2010
If I Can Change, and You Can Change, Everybody Can Change!
There’s plenty of talk on Twitter and the web about my saying in an interview with the Globe & Mail in Toronto that the real estate industry is still “screwed up.” I first said this a long time ago on 60 Minutes, in response [...]

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The Worst Advice Landlord Brokers Give Tenants

By ladinventures • Feb 2nd, 2010 • Category: Commercial Real Estate, Real Estate News, Renting

Landlord brokers generally do a great job representing landlords. That’s what they’re paid to do, and it isn’t easy. But you shouldn’t be surprised to find that the advice landlord brokers are accustomed to offer doesn’t serve your interests. Here are the eight worst kinds of advice you’re likely to hear from a dedicated landlord [...]

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Untitled

By ladinventures • Feb 1st, 2010 • Category: Real Estate News, Uncategorized

Always nice to see in a newspaper ad…
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Rules For Ideas Worth Spreading- Seth’s Blog

By ladinventures • Jan 31st, 2010 • Category: Real Estate News, Uncategorized

If you’ve got an idea worth spreading, I hope you’ll consider this random assortment of rules. Like all rules, some are made to be broken, but still…

You can name your idea anything you like, but a google-friendly name is always better than one that isn’t.
Don’t plan on appearing on a reality show [...]

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First Look…CoCo: Coworking and collaborative space in LowertownSt. Paul

By ladinventures • Jan 29th, 2010 • Category: Real Estate News, Uncategorized

A Big thanks to Kyle Coolbroth & Don Ball for the tour of CoCo yesterday. They provide fantastic coffee and a great working atmosphere without the ever present bean grinding torture noise you’ll always find while trying to do business at your local coffee shop.  Here are some pics I took of the joint. Check them out [...]

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Three-Word Phrases That Can Make Your Start-Up Business A Success

By ladinventures • Jan 26th, 2010 • Category: Real Estate News, Uncategorized

(Editor’s note: Dharmesh Shah is a serial software entrepreneur and the founder and CTO of HubSpot, which provides marketing software for small businesses. This column originally appeared on his blog. )
For some reason, I like wordsmithing and trying to make phrases smaller (while still retaining some meaning).  Not long ago, when I was up much too [...]

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The Ubiquity Of Competition- Seth’s Blog:

By ladinventures • Jan 25th, 2010 • Category: Real Estate News, Uncategorized

Sure, there are playoffs in football, but competition is everywhere, we just forget to notice it.
There are three hundred photographers looking for work in a particular specialty. One puts a creative commons license on his shots in Flickr and they start showing up in many places, from presentations to brochures. Which of the 300 photographers [...]

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Dual Agency: The illusion of individual savings & the real cost to society - Real Estate Cafe Blog

By ladinventures • Jan 23rd, 2010 • Category: Real Estate News, Uncategorized

Exposing the hypocrisy of dual agency, and it’s evil counterfeit buyer agency twin, “designated agency” has been a crusade for real estate consumer advocates, like The Real Estate Cafe, for more than 15 years.  For the most part, proponents of buyer agency have stressed the financial benefit to individuals — something an article today in [...]

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Activ8: Event Management for Small Business | Minnov8

By ladinventures • Jan 23rd, 2010 • Category: Real Estate News, Uncategorized

Activ8: Event Management for Small Business

Mon, Jan 11, 2010
Innovation, Internet & Web, Startups & Developers
    by Steve Borsch

Activ8 is a new Twin Cities-based event/class registration service targeted to the small business’ that has a limited (or no) no web presence but those who offer services in the areas of dance, [...]

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Dual agency can ‘work very smoothly’

By ladinventures • Jan 22nd, 2010 • Category: Real Estate News, Uncategorized

Letter to the Editor
By Inman News, Thursday, January 21, 2010.
Inman News

Re: ‘The dual-agency double standard‘ (Jan. 21)
Dear Editor:
This article actually makes some sense of dual agency. Some attorneys do not like it, true, but generally speaking most have a jurist view. As real estate agents for buyer, seller or (both) … we are not litigators! [...]

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