What I Learned from Getting Laid Off [Guest Post by Austin Yoder] This post originally published here, reproduced here with permission of the author. I went to work for an amazing nonprofit immediately after graduating from Georgetown this past May. Funding is tight everywhere in the non-profit sector at the moment, so my time with … Continue reading
As the first week of the year came and went, I was fortunate to have made a few strides in my own business. One of the biggest revelations was that I needed to take this semester off from college in order to make some of my ideas happen. There were many factors that went into … Continue reading
As a recent college graduate, I love learning about and meeting entrepreneurs who are also recent grads. It has become increasingly difficult to land a job after college, so many people have turned to starting their own businesses and launching ideas as soon as they get their diploma. Remember that idea you had at 3am … Continue reading
Happy New Year! Certain people around the other side of the globe have already experienced 2011. For me, the New Year started last week. I tend to take every day as an adventure, so I started working on my New Year’s resolutions last week. I also have a laminated card with 50 things I want … Continue reading
I’ll be the first to tell you that I judge a business by its mission. Once I saw David’s mission, I knew that I wanted to help him achieve his goals. David runs HealtheFit, a health and fitness company that does more than a standard personal fitness agency or a fitness center management company. At first … Continue reading
We have a holiday gift for you. One of the original visions of this site was to truly “aggregate” business news from around the world. Today we reached one step closer. AsItChanges is approaching the problem of delivering business news and education from two diametrically opposing perspectives of the hyper-local and the global. The original … Continue reading
Opportunities are sometimes where one least expects them. While chatting over coffee one morning, I mentioned to Brian, a friend of mine, that I had started AsItChanges.com to show people that anyone can become an entrepreneur. Brian immediately told me about his wife, Irene Lane, who had recently started an eco-tourism business in which she was … Continue reading
We created AsItChanges to be a resource to inspire, educate and empower ourselves and others in business. Here are some of the links that inspired, educated and empowered us this week. Inspire Proudly Made in DC “Proudly Made in DC” is a website which features a page with short bios of companies in and around the … Continue reading
On the banks of the Potomac, in the small village-like atmosphere of Georgetown, there is a small yoga studio with a cute name and a cute logo. As a resident of Georgetown, I have passed the sign pointing to the studio many times. Having known someone who worked at Down Dog as well as several … Continue reading
In 1928, a young man from Modena, Italy, discovered the harmony between man and machine. Enzo Ferrari loved racing. He ate, slept and breathed car racing. After fighting in World War I, and coming home to his family firm demolished, Enzo went back to the one thing he wanted to do: racing cars. Surprisingly, he … Continue reading
