  After 8 1/2 years of selling real estate, I've decided to hire an assistant. I'm pleased to announce that Christine Koch will be helping me in that role starting Tuesday. I'm looking forward to working with her. Welcome Christine!
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(source: Forbes) "The best college in America isn't in Cambridge or Princeton, West Point or Annapolis. It's nestled in the Berkshire Mountains. Williams College, a 217-year-old private liberal arts school, tops our third annual ranking of America's Best Colleges. Our list of more than 600 undergraduate institutions is based on the quality of the education they provide, the experiences of the students and how much they achieve."
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If you have a small business and need more, well, business, then you should look at Groupon, the fastest-growing company... EVER (according to Forbes). As a consumer, my wife signed up for it and gets one email a day with a special deal from a local business. She's found some great deals that we've used and the merchant gets lots of volume. As a merchant, you run a special price for something you sell (service, product, whatever) and then the revenue generated from it is split 50/50 with Groupon. Would you make more money at full price, sure! But you're also getting HUGE volume and getting your name out there. Not a bad option for a small and/or struggling business. The only other catch, other than the 50/50 split is that only about 1 in 8 applicants make the cut. The winners are usually already getting raves on sites like Yelp and Citysearch "and the deals must offer a substantial discount from normal prices and not be similar to other promotions regularly offered by the vendor". If your business needs more business, check it out!
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(source: Forbes) "Your car is very likely the priciest piece of technology you own. But how much do you know about its technology? When something goes wrong, the mechanic calls the shots--and he is not necessarily to be trusted. DriverSide, an online service founded in San Francisco in 2007, aims to make consumers smarter about automobile care. "Car ownership is one of the last areas that make smart people feel stupid," says DriverSide cofounder and Chairman Trevor Traina, 42. "Whenever smart people feel dumb, there's a business opportunity.""
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(source: 5280) "Improving the way we educate our children has become an epic, and seemingly eternal, struggle throughout the country. In Colorado, however, it looks as if administrators, educators, and elected officials are actually making progress. Schools here are embracing technology and using it to create innovative ways to evaluate students, teachers, and schools. Politicians from both parties are spearheading state and national legislation to support the cause. And parents are more involved than ever in their kids’ education."
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