South By Small Business Web At SXSW

Saturday afternoon, I stopped by the South By Small Business Web party.  The party was host by a great group of companies who all provide software, apps or services for small businesses and start-ups. At last year’s SXSW, I met people from Batch Blue, FreshBooks, Outright and Shoeboxed, so it was nice to see familiar [...]

Broke Diaries Presentation

http://app.sliderocket.com/app/fullplayer.aspx?id=04BCD08B-DEB2-FD99-8199-446BF6F84B24 Thanks to all who came to our SXSW panel. This presentation has the sites that were mentioned. Update:  ABC News wrote a nice article about The Broke Diaries panel, Five Social Media Secrets To Saving Money.

SXSW Interactive Panel: The Broke Diaries is March 12

The panel that I am moderating for SXSW, The Broke Diaries: Blogging and Twittering About Living on the Cheap is March 12 at 2PM. If you will be at SXSW, please come to the panel. I will be joined by a panel of “thrift experts” which are Larry Chiang (Duck9), Hayes Davis (CheapTweet), Emily Farris [...]

Brokelyn Interviews Alexa Von Tobel, Founder of LearnVest

Brokelyn interviews the founder of LearnVest Alexa Von Tobel.  I am a fan of LearnVest which is a personal finance site for women. Alexa talks about how she raised a million dollars for her startup.  Congrats! BTW, I am also a fan of Brokelyn whose founder, Faye Penn, will be joining me on my SXSWi [...]

Yay! My Panel Was Picked Up. Going To SXSW!

I am so happy to announce that my panel, “The Broke Diaries: Using Blogs And Twitter To Live Cheaply” has been selected to be a part of the 2010 SXSW Interactive Conference in Austin, Texas. If you are attending SXSW, please look me up. I will also organize a Cupcakes Take The Cake event while [...]

Pick My Panel: The Broke Diaries

I pitched a panel for 2010 SXSW Interactive, and I need  your vote: The Broke Diaries: Using Blogs And Twitter To Live Cheaply The panel’s goal is to show how blogging and tweeting about saving money and living thriftly can inspire others, change spending habits and help people to live better with less.  The questions  [...]

Nickelwise: Notes From SXSW

South by Southwest Interactive is way more tech than small business, but there was some good business information to be gleaned from my four days in Austin.  Two great panels that were applicable to small business were the “Making Ideas Happen” talk by Scott Belsky of Behance, and the Bootstap Your Startup panel.  Check out [...]

@SXSW: Finance 2.0, Money Management to Save This Generation

I am here in Austin for SXSW. Today, I will speaking on a panel at 10am. I am so happy to be on the panel with Mint.com‘s Aaron Patzer, SmartyPig.com‘s Michael Ferrari, Murali Subbarao of Billeo, and Stessa Cohen. Please come if you are in the town for “South By”. The panel will be in [...]