Sat.Dec 08, 2012 - Fri.Dec 14, 2012

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Give the Gift of Giving this Holiday

Waxing UnLyrical

It wasn’t until my grandfather passed away earlier this year that his younger sister told me the story of their first Christmas. Their first Christmas. I did know that my grandfather only made it to the 6th grade before he had to start working to help support his family. He adored his little sister Jeanette, and because their family was very poor they had never experienced a Christmas dinner, a Christmas tree, Santa Claus or even opening a present during the holidays.

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The 5 Commandments of How to Raise $1Million on Kickstarter

Waxing UnLyrical

Guest post by Christopher Wallace. Let’s go back in time five years to 2007. You’ve got a great idea to build a watch with built-in Bluetooth, allowing you to control and access your phone or tablet from your wrist. Unfortunately, you’re a relatively broke hobby designer working a 9 to 5 IT job. How do you proceed? Call up your rich uncle and ask him to back you?

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The Space Between

Waxing UnLyrical

I had a marathon “start getting caught up on WUL” session yesterday (in fact, I’m typing this at 3:30 am today , though you won’t read it for a few hours more). You know the drill, if you publish a blog (especially one with multiple contributors), tweak this, clean up that, etcetera etcetera. Part of that entailed going through several old posts from the WUL team members, and as I was doing so, I realized that they all have dominant themes.