David Larter

New Business Licenses 7.2.09

Lots of new businesses this week. Best new name: ” I am Beautiful Head to Toe Beauty Counseling” or “Cowboy Roofing”

Snag another award

SnagAJob.com is one of the nation’s best small businesses to work for, according to the Society of Human Resource Management. SnagAJob, which runs an online job board that matches hourly workers with positions at companies like 7-Eleven, landed the number three position on the list.  This is the second year in a row that the… Read more »

A new push to shop local

A consortium of Richmond organizations is advocating for a “Shop Richmond Weekend.”

Hackers bring the pain in Va.

Doctors in Virginia are thinking twice before prescribing pain killers such as morphine and vicodin.

Tech Review: this is a Wave you gotta catch

Google engineers have developed a program that will revolutionize a key part of every business: trying to get information from one person to another without botching the meaning or context like a game of telephone.

Beware of Twitter squatters

Earlier this month we ran a series on how local businesses are using social media. In some cases, the tools are effective and cheap ways to reach targeted customers. But they can also allow any rouge individual to speak on behalf of the company. And in that sense, the battle for public opinion keeps getting… Read more »

Snagajob follow-up

BizSense reported June 1 that Snagajob, one of the fastest growing companies in Richmond, had laid off 6 employees. Since that story ran, two sources familiar with the company said that two more have been let go for performance reasons, bringing the headcount is down to 120, or about 14 percent less than peak employment of 140 in December.

Carytown after hours

Carytown merchants have organized their version of the First Fridays Art Walk, which brings an after-work crowd to downtown Broad Street.