Axosoft is allowing customers to purchase a Small Team Edition 5 user license of their OnTime 2006 bug tracking and project management software for a $5 donation to the American Red Cross.  The regular price is $495. I would be interested to see the results in the future on how this works out as far as customer retention when the next paid upgrade is released.  I imagine that they will have quite a few customers locked in to the product by that time.

The Coloradoan has an article that talks about the booming micro-business industry in Northern Colorado.  Fort Collins has 287 businesses with 5 employees or less on file with the Chamber of Commerce.

CNET has an article looking at the new Web 2.0 startups that are not doing startups the traditional way.  The article includes the obligatory VC quote on how these businesses are good for the founder but don’t have the “fundamental ingredients for creating lasting, meaningful businesses”.