Archives: 2008March

Posted by Ben Worthen

If you don’t file your techie’s H-1B application tomorrow a model could get it

* What do techies and supermodels have in common? TheyÂ’re both allowed to work in the U.S. because of the same visa program, the H-1B. The filing period for the next wave of H-1Bs begins tomorrow, meaning immigration lawyers […]

Posted by Ben Worthen
The iPhone is shaking up businesses – and our inbox.

If you use the iPhone without IT’s permission, be glad Robert Mitchum isn’t your CIO

Apple’s device is a design triumph, has a better Web browser than other mobile phones, and is the first mainstream device with the potential to truly combine the rigors […]

Bellevue, Wash.
ThatÂ’s the best town to launch a business, according to Fortune Small Business. The magazine ranked U.S. towns and cities for its top 100 best spots to “Live and Launch.” Winners combined a nourishing business environment along with alluring leisure offerings. Good for you. Good for recruiting.
Criteria included: economic conditions such as local taxes, […]

The I Live Inspired founders are still at Harpo. (Read the original post and the last update). Their new security-guard pal told them today isn’t looking good for a meeting because of the show’s schedule. But he encouraged them to come back tomorrow. So they’ll be back on the scene early in the morning.
Meantime, they’ve […]

A reminder to readers to check out our lineup for the next Juggle book club and cast your vote. We’ll close voting at the end of the day tomorrow and announce the next book.

On Saturday the Journal’s Jonathan Kaufman and Carol Hymowitz looked at an unfortunate byproduct of Sen. Hillary Clinton’s campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination: an apparent backlash against women’s workplace and societal gains, expressed in uncommonly open misogynist terms.
One of the article’s anecdotes encapsulates the issue: “Katherine Putnam, president of Package Machinery Co., a West […]

Posted by Ben Worthen
The next technologies to take corporate America by storm will be online software that workers use to make themselves more productive without ever involving the information-technology department.

Kevin Efrusy thinks the way business will buy software is changing

That’s the view of Kevin Efrusy, a partner at venture capital firm Accel Partners. Much has […]

Update: (9:57 a.m.) Entrepreneurs Rob Foster and Chris Deutsch made it into the lobby of security at Oprah’s Harpo headquarters. After standing outside the building since 5:15 a.m. chatting up the mostly female ticket-holders for today’s show and Oprah’s security team, they got a lucky break. Read the original post.

Chris reports that one top security […]

Original Post: (8:48 a.m.) On March 24th, two entrepreneurs left Hope, Ill., on foot en route to Chicago and the doorstep of Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Studios. Their mission: an unscheduled seven-minute meeting today with the media diva to pitch their company, I Live Inspired, which delivers inspirational text messages to subscribers’ cellphones.
Their dream world […]

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At home or at work, the juggle is a lot more difficult when we let things drive us to a loss of temper. Yet as much as we remind our kids to use gentle voices and solve problems with constructive conversation, stress-wracked working parents find themselves blowing gaskets all too often.
My good friend Neal Pollack, […]