We’re releasing a new video every week from our small business conference — Small and Special. The most recent two include Oliver Chin, founder (and author) from Immedium — an independent children’s book publisher in San Francisco, and Jon Rimmerman, founder of Garagiste, the largest independent wine retailer in the Northwest. Both videos are inspiring, [...]

Two great videos are up at Small and Special. First is Joe Mansfield from Engrave Your Tech talking about how he handled challenges in terms of the safety of his manufacturing process and how he migrated his business to a new process and set of products. Very inspiring, and beautiful engraved products. Next is Rachel [...]

My favorite florist agreed to grace us with her presence, her flowers, and most importantly, her story. This video of Nisha Kelen from Fleurish is from our recent Small and Special conference. Now you can see her entire talk. We’ll be posting a new video every week from the conference. Enjoy.

Last Tuesday, our little tech startup put on our own small business conference – Small and Special. You may wonder, why is a web startup still in its early development taking the time, effort, and resources to put on a small business conference. I could tell you how we increased our visibility in the community, [...]

And to be honest, it was super fun. : ) We’re a little exhaustipated but feeling good about Small and Special and the tons of great and useful feedback we received. We need to do a proper recap of the event, but that might take a couple of days. Thanks to everyone who attended, participated, [...]

Hmmm… what to put in a blog post where the title already says it all? If you have a ticket, we’ll see you next Tuesday. If you don’t have a ticket follow @smallandspecial or search #SandS on Twitter for updates from the event.

As we mentioned when we announced our Small and Special conference focused on passionate small businesses and aspiring entrepreneurs, a good chunk of our inspiration came from a single book. That book is Small Giants, Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big by Bo Burlingham. While the conference speaker roster is limited to [...]

Our mini-conference is just a few short weeks away. Small and Special, an afternoon for passionate small business owners (and aspiring entrepreneurs) is happening on Tuesday June 30, 2009 from 2pm-6pm in the Georgetown Ballroom in Seattle. We’ll have a total of eight speakers for the afternoon, six of which have already been announced. We’re [...]

Bryan Zug did an awesome job as usual making videos out of all the ignite talks. For those of you “dying” to hear my Lego talk, it’s now posted for your enjoyment.

Ignite Seattle has been the best tech-ish crowd startup gathering in Seattle as far as I’m concerned. The crowd is big but the event is still somewhat intimate. It highlights some of the positives of having a smaller tech community in Seattle relative to Silicon Valley for example. Brady does a good job pulling together [...]

With all our talk about our own small event, we can’t neglect to mention other events happening around town. Specifically, Bloom Seattle is being held on April 9th (next week) and will feature six speakers talking about green innovation. I’m particularly excited about Aaron Fairchild of g2bVentures that are buying foreclosed properties and flipping them [...]

As you may know, we’re putting on a little conference at the end of June called Small and Special. The conference is for small business owners and entrepreneur hopefuls who dream about creating a successful business doing something they love. In that vein, two more successful entrepreneurs have signed up to tell their stories. Andrew [...]

When we started Jackson Fish Market, the first problem we decided to address was the lack of great options for brand advertisers online. Our simple premise was that useful and entertaining software on the web had the capability of engaging online audiences (both in terms of minutes spent and depth of engagement) much more cost-effectively [...]

If you’re in New York City this weekend, there’s a cool conference-ish event happening called Interesting New York. I’ll be one of the speakers. My talk is called: “Cheese, wine, and software? How software is crossing the artisanal divide.” And even if you’re sick of me, definitely come by as there’s tons of other speakers. [...]

We managed to get a talk suggestion in for next year’s SXSW Interactive event in Austin. Here are the details: The Rise of Artisanal Software As we crawl out of the industrial age of software, and the biggest software platform in the world grows at a torrid pace, the emergence of software as art and [...]

Tonight is the second ever Jackson Fish Market secret society meeting. If you’re in Seattle you should definitely drop by. The details are here. All sorts of fun stuff planned including a cool dance performance. Did I mention the free food and drink? No? Well… there will be free food and drink. And we ordered [...]

We’re pleased to invite you to the second Jackson Fish Market Secret Society Meeting.* Tuesday, August 19, 2008 — 6:30pm-9:00pm Jackson Fish Market World Headquarters — 619 Western Avenue, 2nd Floor North (near the corner of Western and Yesler), Pioneer Square, Seattle Featured Guest (8:00-8:15pm): Clear the floor, and turn up the music… we’re going [...]

In case you missed it, we’re having our first Secret Society meeting tomorrow night — Tuesday, April 22, 2008, 6:30pm. The details are here. You may want to consider an alternative to driving alone in your car for a couple of reasons: It’s Earth Day. The Mariners are playing. Parking will be scarce and pricey. [...]

…come see our presentation on next generation consumer software. By no means do we claim to be experts, but hopefully from our first two apps (They’re Beautiful! and Invitastic) as well as our blog you can tell that we definitely have opinions on how to create a web experience. I get to share our philosophy [...]

We’re pleased to invite you to the first ever (and hopefully not last) Jackson Fish Market Secret Society Meeting.* Tuesday, April 22, 2008 — Earth Day, 6:30pm-9:00pm Jackson Fish Market offices – 619 Western Avenue, 2nd Floor North (near the corner of Western and Yesler), Pioneer Square, Seattle Featured Speaker (8:00-8:15pm): Jordan Schwartz. Jordan is [...]