Month: November 2022

The watercooler and the conference room are well-known landmarks in the geography of a workspace. One is a place for socializing—the glue that sticks a team together—and the other, ground zero for planning and executing your business goals.

An intranet platform is equally important for the modern small business, functioning a bit like a conference room and a watercooler: a place to meet as well as generate and share ideas and information. And, most importantly, get work done.

BP’s Picks for Best Intranet Platform for Small Businesses 

It could be said, then, that an intranet is a virtual space, or cloud-based computer network, catering to the unique needs of organization with tools for communication, collaboration, organization, and more.

It’s easy to get recommendations for intranet platforms online from a variety of sources, but Business Pundit took it one step further: We asked small-business owners, chief technology officers, and IT professionals

Million and billion dollar companies had to start somewhere and in the technology field that “somewhere” is often an unsuspecting garage.

But it’s not just tech companies like Hewlett Packard and Apple that started in garages. Toy companies, motorcycle businesses, a nationally recognized candle company, and other popular companies also come from humble beginnings.

While Hewlett Packard is quite possibly the most talked about garage-based startup, in terms of Silicon Valley’s early beginnings, other big name companies also launched their businesses in a small space that you wouldn’t expect.

From Amazon and Apple to Harley Davidson and toy-maker Mattel, these garage startups have turned into multinational powerhouses.

Amazon

In 1994 a soon-t0-be billionaire named Jeff Bezos started an online bookstore in his garage at a home located at 10704 NE 28th in Bellevue, Washington.

That company would sell its first book in 1995 under the url Amazon.com.

In 1997 Jeff