Corner Office – Mark Pincus – Every Worker Should Be C.E.O. of Something – NYTimes.com. CEO of Zynga talks about management. Some interesting stuff.

Dating site lets women call the shots – Springwise. men can only post profiles if referred. only women can search and they pay to use the site. interesting model.

Stanford’s Entrepreneurship Corner: David Heinemeier Hansson, 37 Signals – Unlearn Your MBA. very entertaining talk. some pretty incendiary language for presenting at a business school.

You’ve Been Yelped – Inc Magazine. about small businesses coming to grips with the power of yelp.

HSBC Business Direct: HSBC Bank Canada. a no fee chequing account for small businesses in Canada. holy crap, i just saw a flying pig!

Why I gave away my company to charity | Derek Sivers. When he sold CDBaby the money went in a trust that will pay him an annual dividend so he can live comfortably and then when he dies they’ll give the money to charity. that’s pretty awesome.

Shopify — Build a Business Contest, Win 100k. the new shop with the most revenue in the first 6 months of the new year wins $100K. not too shabby.

Brewer works up a good head of Steam – The Globe and Mail. nice little write-up on steamwhistle’s business philosophy.

Sake maker says he’s brewing the next big thing – The Globe and Mail. guy in vancouver who took early retirement and started making high-end sake. great story.

Thoughts from the front lines – Entrepreneurs – The Globe and Mail. Ali made it in there. Interesting stuff about DNA11 out of Ottawa (they also did canvaspop.com).

Vidque.com – Popular Online Videos. Lukas relaunched nizmlab with a bunch of new stuff and a new name. make sure you watch the intro video.

Google to Buy AdMob for $750 Million – NYTimes.com. kinda surprised by this since google had a decent competing ad toolset. i wonder how much revenue/traffic admob actually had?

The Answer Factory: Demand Media and the Fast, Disposable, and Profitable as Hell Media Model | Magazine. this article blew my mind.

Why do we have an IMG element? [dive into mark]. some great quotes from a html mailing list in 1993 about adding images to html. in summary, “The ones that win are the ones that ship.”

Mint CEO Aaron Patzer on Startups – Vimeo. 20 minute talk about the last 3 years of mint.com. interesting talk as he had just sold mint to intuit for $170M and he uses their actual numbers for costs and equity shares. I though the most informative slide was about their projected revenue per user based on cost-per-acquisition deals (jump to 14:00 for this).

Indie Screenings. website that lets you buy rights to do indie movie screenings. can totally see how political/charitable related films and documentaries could leverage something like this.

Shopify Application Store. shopify launched a platform making store add-ons kinda like salesforce.com. yet one more reason to use shopify for your online vending.

Hoping to Make iPhone Toys as a Full-Time Job – NYTimes.com. on the app goldrush. The guy who developed iShoot has made $800k in 5 months. Not bad.

reportonbusiness.com: Some things come for free. globe article about well.ca and ali.

Jump Start Credit Card Processing: How it works, what you need, with Ruby & JavaScript examples. info on getting credit card processing going in Rails with ActiveMerchant.