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Alliance of Angels Director: 2010 Is “A Great Time To Be Starting Something”
Angels have been in the air lately—especially around the Northwest. Last month, Atlas Accelerator hosted what might have been the largest-ever gathering of active angel investors in Seattle, at its first investor open house. Wings, a new angel group to invest in medical devices and software, has gotten started....
Great Expectations Along the Columbia River, as PNNL Reels In Big Energy Problems
There’s a billion-dollar-a-year research operation in the middle of Washington state, with 4,600 staff, working on some of the biggest energy challenges in the world. Yet very few of the locals know a thing about it. And while it hasn’t solved the world’s energy woes, people should start counting on...
Olympia: Don’t Crush Biotech With New Taxes
Washington’s economy is showing signs of recovery. But some major problems persist—unemployment is stuck at a historic high and healthcare costs continue to skyrocket. The biotechnology industry can help alleviate both these problems. Washington is already a major hub of new biotech research and products. Boosting this sector will deliver our...
ActiveTrak Funded by ProtectCell
Portland, OR-based ActiveTrak, a maker of software that helps consumers recover lost or stolen laptops and mobile phones, announced this week it has raised its first round of funding, led by strategic investor ProtectCell, a mobile security and insurance firm based in Michigan. The investment is $500,000, as reported by...
San Diego-based Ligand Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: LGND) said today that its partner, GlaxoSmithKline, has won clearance to start marketing a new drug for a platelet deficiency in Europe. The treatment, eltrombopag (Revolade), is for patients for idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura (ITP), a rare bleeding disorder in which the immune system attacks platelet...
Tom Daschle, Former Senate Majority Leader, Talks Healthcare Reform (but Not Health IT)
On Wednesday morning, I stopped by the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Seattle to hear Tom Daschle, the former U.S. Senate Majority Leader from South Dakota, give the keynote talk at the 10th annual “Breakfast with Champions” fundraiser, organized by the King County Bar Foundation. His main focus: healthcare reform. I don’t...
The Entrepreneurial MD
Physician business owners - find (or create!) happiness at work
I've long been a fan of Professor Srikumar Rao, the author of "Are You Ready for Success?" (reviewed here) and the soon to be released "Happiness at Work: Be Resilient, Motivated, and Successful - No Matter What". I love the measured calm and reassurance of his written voice as he...
How to ensure your idea for an entrepreneurial physician business idea doesn't suck!
Doctors are full of ideas for businesses. It must be all that frustrated creativity manifesting in the shower! Not all of these ideas, however, will make for a sound entrepreneurial physician business. So how then do you know whether your idea is any good? The Harvard Business Review Newsletter has a few tips...
Apple customer service provides lessons for physician business owners
An email exchange last week with an Apple customer service staff member about an iTunes account problem provided me with enough fodder to acknowledge just how impressive a company Apple is when you dig behind the perfect design of their products (despite my Android phone!). This excerpt from the first reply...
5 steps to creating your first entrepreneurial physician information product
The Entrepreneurial MD Newsletter's article for March is about as pragmatic as one can get! It's devoted to answering a question I'm frequently asked by my physician (and non-physician) coaching clients: "If I want to create an information product to sell (or to use as a marketing tool), how do I...
Two tasty morsels for your physician business
Two emails came across my desk yesterday, each with part 1 of a 5-part series that I thought you'd find valuable as you look to ways to form, and succeed at, your entrepreneurial physician venture or medical practice. The first is article 1, "Forming a Sole Proprietorship" in a 5-weekly series...
Why your physician business website matters!
Since I am now maintaining two blogs, I thought I'd share an article from my Physician Website Secrets Blog today on the Top 10 reasons for a first class medical practice website. [By the way, you'll find a number of short educational videos on the site, teaching about ways to create...
NextBillion.net - Development Through Enterprise - Eradicating Poverty through Profit
Feedback from Our Readers: NextBillion Readers' Survey
Authored by: Maria ZhengDear NextBillion Reader: Since 2005, NextBillion has strived to provide news, analysis and information on the "base of the pyramid" (BoP) sector. We are now the most-visited BoP site on the web, with more than 40,000 unique visitors per month- thanks to you. And we don't want to...
Weekly Roundup: Focus on Children, Early and Often
Authored by: Nathan Wyeth This week, we welcomed four new people to the NextBillion team: Maria Zheng, Andrew Eder, Bryan Farris, and Adeena Schlussel. Watch for their contributions and insights! This week, staff writers took new looks at how enterprises can intervene in education and early childhood to create new security and prosperity...
Organization: One Acre FundLocation: KEJob Location: Western Kenya (English required) Organization Description One Acre Fund is a start-up initiative in Kenya which works with persistently hungry farm families. Instead of giving handouts to families, One Acre invests in farm families to generate a permanent gain in farm income. Our "investment bundle" includes education, financing, inputs,...
Organization: One Acre FundLocation: RWJob Location: Southwest Rwanda (French required) Organization Description One Acre Fund is a start-up initiative in Kenya which works with persistently hungry farm families. Instead of giving handouts to families, One Acre invests in farm families to generate a permanent gain in farm income. Our "investment bundle" includes education, financing,...
Internships - Decision and Policy Analysis Program
Organization: Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)Location: Cali, CO Opportunity for internships and jobs for recent graduates to gain international experience The Decision and Policy Analysis Program (DAPA) of the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) is seeking English speaking recent graduates for 6-12 month internships. CIAT is an international research center, one...
Staff Update: New Additions to the NextBillion Team
Authored by: Francisco NogueraThe last few weeks have been unusually busy at NextBillion. You've seen several new names, topics discussed, and the diversity of perspectives represented in our pages continues to expand. Moreover, the site's managing partners (Acumen Fund, WDI and WRI) recently met for a planning session where we...
crowdSPRING Blog
Nice to see Chicago’s WGN talk about crowdSPRING in their news segment last night (at 0:55 of the video). Big thanks to @maltier for letting us know about WGN’s story about crowdSPRING....
Later today begins a new day at crowdSPRING and a new approach to our community. When we launched in May of 2008, we offered buyers a simple guarantee, and made an equally simple promise to creatives. We guaranteed “25 entries or your money back” and promised creatives that when a...
Twitter Link Roundup #31 – Design, Copywriting, Marketing, Small Business, Social Media And More
Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account, I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Here are some of the links that...
U.S. Government Embraces Crowdsourcing
The White House has embraced crowdsourcing, urging federal agencies in a memo issued on March 8, 2010 to use challenges and prizes to crowdsource innovative approaches to governmental initiatives and programs. Within the next 120 days, the administration will release a web-based platform to manage the government’s crowdsourcing efforts. Some of...
12 Questions: Meet Bryan Blue S. Cuevas (Philippines)
In our 12 Questions blog series, we feature interviews with someone from the crowdSPRING community. For these interviews, we pick people who add value to our community – in the blog, in the forums, in the projects. Plainly – activities that...
5 thoughts for startups and small business: numbers count
Photo: tifotter Einstein famously said, “Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted” while Count Von Count (pictured above) said “That’s TWO! Two worried frogs! Ha ha ha ha!” Einstein was right in so many ways, but I believe that in the context of...
KK Lifestream
Making Organic Structure Visible
Originally posted in The Technium Science is forever trying to model nature. By simplifying its complexity, or extracting its structures into new modes, science can begin to understand how living things work. One clever way to study biology...
And what could be more industrial-age...
Originally posted in New Rules ...than automobiles? Yet, chips and networks can take the industrial age out of cars, too. Most of the energy a car consumes is used to move the car itself, not the passenger. So...
Originally posted in The Technium One day, we knew, biotech would become so easy and so cheap that two guys in a garage could hack life in the way kids hack code. That day is now here. Exhibit...
Bit by bit, the logic of the network...
Originally posted in New Rules ...will overtake every atom we deal with. The logic of the network will spread from its base in silicon chips, to infiltrate steel, plywood, chemical dyes, and potato chips. All manufacturing, whether seeded with...
The wholesale migration from mass to bits...
Originally posted in New Rules ...began with the arrival of computer chips. This subtle disembodiment was first viewed as a unique dynamic of the high-tech corridors of Silicon Valley. Software was so strange--part body, part spirit--that nobody was...
Originally posted in The Technium This clip of vocal cords singing a harmony will certainly make the rounds on the tubes. To film it required a fiber optic camera that goes up the nose and then down the...
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In bid for entrepreneurs, Dell introduces new Vostro 3000 laptops: Core i3, i5, i7; start $768
In a bid for small business entrepreneurs, Dell on Tuesday unveiled its Vostro 3000 series laptops with standard voltage Intel Core i3, i5 and i7 processors and discrete graphics for less than $800. by Andrew Nusca...
Dell's new Vostro 3000 series laptops aims for entrepreneurs
Dell's new Vostro 3000 series laptops aims for small business entrepreneurs. Here's a look at the 13-inch 3300, 14-inch 3400, 15-inch 3500 and 17-inch 3700. by Andrew Nusca...
Home Business Magazine 1.3 (Mobile)
Home Business Magazines editorial content speaks to the entire home business market. Topics include: sales and marketing, e-commerce, money corner, management, lifestyles, business opportunities, business news, and more.Since 1994, Home Business Magazine has been the essential journal for home-based entrepreneurs....
HJFF - Hartford Jewish Film Festival 2010 1.2 (Mobile)
About the Hartford Jewish Film Festival:The Mandell JCCs Hartford Jewish Film Festival will be held March 13-23, 2010. We are proud to present a record 30 superb films most of them Connecticut or Hartford premieres - from 8 countries presented in 7 Greater Hartford venues over 10 days. Check out......
I Am Modern Magazine for Moms 1.0.3 (Mobile)
I AM Modern Magazine is the ultimate regional social media experience for moms and women living in the Washington DC and Northern VA Suburbs, offering reader generated content and a real time social club. I AM Modern offers its readers "live by" restaurant reviews, lifestyle guides and local resources for......
On behalf of the HBS Entrepreneurship Club, we are pleased to introduce our iPhone Application for the Entrepeneurship Conference on February 21, 2010. The application allows users to view an updated schedule accessible both on and offline of the conference and read speaker biographies on the go. In addition, attendees......
Nimble Theory
Sendside.net, our corporate site, has a new look that focus on four selling propositions that point out where we really shine; lead conversion, channel communications, security and compliance, and customer retention. To be honest, the old site was to busy, a byproduct of too many cooks in the kitchen. This new site...
The Cove has won about every documentary award available. I've been anxious to see it. First because it's obviously a really good film, and secondly, because it's equally obvious that it's emotionally charged. It was. If your family hasn't seen The Cove, which is probable, rent it and watch it as a family....
Products scale quite nicely than you. Services? Not so much. While I'm beating the bushes 24/7 at Sendside, I've got some systems in place around launching products that's working quite well, and it's all built on the premise that incremental value is scalable only around products, not services. I think I know...
We've launched another Select Partner for Medical Spa MD. Shine Teeth Whitening Shine provides professional teeth whitening services to medical offices while creating jobs for single moms, musicians, artists, and others who don’t fit well in the traditional 8-5 corporate world. Shine's technicians are trained by licensed dentists to create custom...
Gateway Aesthetic Laser Clinic: Worst Plastic Surgery Bilboard Award
The worst plastic surgery billboard I've ever seen. In fact, it may be the worst plastic surgery ad too. This is what happens when someone in the laser clinic is doing the marketing and advertising for plastic surgeons. I've actually seen this billboard. It's along I-15 in Utah and I've driven past...
The Skeptical side claims at least 31,486 dissenters in their ranks, according to the PetitionProject.org. That sounds like a lot. But is it? Of course, not all 12 million US scientists therefore agree with ‘The Consensus’. But this puts the PetitionProject’s 31,486 signatories in some kind of context. Our maths here is...
InnovationGuard
Cyber Insurance: 6 coverages that you should know about
In a previous post I provided a few links to articles on “cyber insurance”. The whole reason that this has become a hot risk management topic is because the evolution of business insurance has been out paced by our usage and dependance on technology. The standard policy for Property and Liability,...
Quick update and coming soon on InnovationGuard……
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Snowpocalypse – Best of Twitter Posts: Cyber Liability
Snow everywhere! I often post links to relevant articles and information on my twitter account. And since some of that material doesn’t make it here, I thought I would consolidate the most relevant with a “Best of Twitter” blog post on InnovationGuard. Below are a few tweets in reverse chronological order….if that...
PLUS D&O Conference 2010 – Money for Nothing
Last week I attended the annual PLUS (Professional Liability Underwriting Society – yes, insurance and acronyms go hand in hand) D&O Symposium. People from the legal and insurance industry, from all over the world, attend this conference to discuss current trends in litigation and Directors and Officers Liability insurance. Much...
Top 5 Reasons Why Insurance Sucks
I’m still coming to grips with the second worst haircut in my life…..and I just don’t have the self confidence for a video post this week. So in the meantime, let’s have some fun with an old school written post…… Insurance sucks! - I hear it all the time. It’s what I...
Insurance Life Cycle for Emerging Venture Backed Companies
Emerging companies require unique insurance coverages during each stage of their development. While each company will have it’s own specific risks (which must be evaluated independently) there is a pattern of typical coverages that most companies will require at each stage. We have categorized the stages into the following four areas: Stage 1...
The Entrepreneurial Mind
There is a new source of start-up capital in Nashville. Solidus Company announced today the formation of a microfund to support local entrepreneurs and to help accelerate the growth of start-ups in the Middle Tennessee area. JumpStart Foundry will focus......
Job Growth Still Not Happening -- Tax Credits No Solution
In almost every previous recession it has been small businesses that created the job growth that pulled us out of high unemployment.According to the latest poll of small business owners taken by the NFIB, small businesses are not yet moving......
Assessment of Entrepreneurship Education Around the Globe
Education and training for entrepreneurs worldwide is inadequate, according to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Special Report: A Global Perspective on Entrepreneurship Education and Training, released today at Babson College, lead sponsor and co-founder of the GEM project. Entrepreneurship education......
We are on spring break this week, so my blogging will be a bit lighter than usual. Taking some time with family, including a trip down to Miami. And of course, I will be playing a little golf, as well!......
NFIB Statement on Job Creation by Small Business
William C. Dunkelberg, chief economist for the National Federation of Independent Business, issued the following statement this morning on February job numbers based on NFIB's monthly economic survey that will be released on Tuesday, March 9. The survey was conducted......
The Importance of Small Business and Jobs
The importance small businesses for both job creation and job loss in our economy is highlighted in a new study from the SBA Office of Advocacy. Through much of the 1990s and and into the 2000s, small businesses accounted for......
Sparkplug CEO
What’s Your Number One Tip for Working At Home Effectively?
Do you work from home? If you do, we’d love to hear your favorite piece of advice for others who work at home or are looking to start working from home on the topic of how to work effectively. Simply leave a comment at the end of this article and share your...
Want to Write for Sparkplugging?
We’ll keep this quick. Sparkplugging has been quiet for a few months. No more. We’re back and we’re looking for excellent writers to join our growing team. If you’re interested, click here. That is all. If you liked this article, you might also enjoy:Sparkplugging Internship: Applications Now Being Accepted Press Release or Article: Which One Should...
How to Make WordPress Unfairly Awesome: Get the Headway 1.5 Theme
Hey Sparkpluggers – have you seen this? WordPress + Headway 1.5 = eternal website owner bliss. Let me explain. WordPress is a fantastic platform upon which you can build any website – even a professional website. You probably already know this – Sparkplugging itself runs on WordPress, after all. And Headway 1.5...
21 Home Business Resources You Can’t Miss
Could your home based business use some help? A little jolt to make you jump for joy? We thought so. Here it is, all free and all organized. Start clicking! Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on StumbleUpon Share on Delicious Write on your favorite jeans: http://bit.ly/21homebiz How to Start a Home Based Business 10 Signs...
5 Ways Calendars Can Help Market Your Business
When we think Calendars, we often think our personal calendars, using it to manage our promotional calendar or share with our virtual assistants or project partners. But it doesn’t always have to be that ‘dry’. Many marketers online use PDF’s, videos and audios to get their message out, hope...
Who Says Spreadsheets Can’t Be Sexy?
It has been so many years since I’ve used Excel. These days, OpenOffice Calc is used exclusively around here. Still, I can’t deny there are some pretty cool things about Excel. Not saying Calc is not a good tool, there are just a lot of cool features and...
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Entrepreneurs – Are They Made OR Born? Finally Proof…
Gabcast! YE BizBytes #11 – Are Entrepreneurs Made or Born? The age old dispute is settled once and for all by http://www.YoungEntrepreneur.com ’s lead business coach, Dan Nichols. The answer is… sorry ya gotta listen....
Business Mentors – Always Consider the Source
Gabcast! YE BizBytes #9 – Business Advice – Consider the Source http://www.youngentrepreneur.com Lead business coach Dan Nichols of YoungEntrepreneur.com cautions entrepreneurs from taking advice — sort of. Find out why some advice is dangerous to the health of your business....
10 Online Businesses You Can Start Today
As part of our series, covering 100 of the best business ideas out there, we present our list of 10 Online Businesses. These are Internet-based businesses that just about anyone can start. For some, you’ll need to have some creative skills and/or training before you launch, while others take no...
Use Other People’s Time, Money, Talent and Stuff to Start a Business
Gabcast! YoungEntrepreneur.com Business Coaching Webinars Audio Version #0 – Leveraging Other People’s Time, Money, Talent and Stuff to Start a Business Sure you can invest a ton of money to start a business that may or may not work. Instead consider how you can use what someone else already has to...
Vision – One of the 3 Imperatives to Success in Business
Gabcast! YE BizBytes #17 – Business Success Formula for Entrepreneurs – Vision http://youngentrepreneur.com/business-coaching There are 3 critical elements to the success formula in anything. Vision is the third of 3 elements. Without it your destined to travel without a destination. This type of travel leaves you unclear and anxious. Find out...
UVP, USP, Elevator Speech – WHY BOTHER?
Gabcast! YE BizBytes #7 – UVP – Elevator Speech – A Critical Piece to Marketing Your Business Entrepreneur’s Young and Old alike need to be sure and understand the reason a Unique Value Proposition and an Elevator Speech are so crucial. Find out why it’s as important for the entrepreneur to...
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Advertising and Marketing on the Internet: Rules of the Road
by Victoria Reynolds The Internet is connecting advertisers and marketers to customers to advertisers and marketers to customers again from Boston to Bali with text, interactive graphics, video, and audio. As you and your business join the masses online, it’s important to remember that many of the same rules that...
Market Research Techniques to Boost Your Brand
by Lauren Dixon Market research eliminates the guesswork associated with marketing and communication strategies. Customized and proven research techniques help companies to formulate, test, and focus their brand and marketing messages. How can you best apply market research to know what your customers want? Effective market research starts with a...
Step Up Your Business with TEN
by Judy Seil Entrepreneurship is a word that is used to describe a plethora of initiatives. We are fortunate to have a program in Monroe County (serving the region) that will take your business to the next level with local and national experts ready to share their thought provoking ideas...
by Jackie Marchand President, WomenTours, Inc. In my job, I must constantly work to overcome one obstacle after another. I design and coordinate bicycle tours for women, and achieving success is not always an easy feat. Our flagship event is an annual 2-month bike ride across the country, from California...
What Entrepreneurs Can Learn from Sex and the City
by Marita Greenidge Carrie: Oh my God… cccome come back! What is this? Why is this happening? My computer just crashed right in the middle of my work! ---------------------- Apple Tech: When was the last time you backed up your work? Carrie: Um… I don’t do that Aidan: You don’t...
Taking the Plunge—Timing the Risk to Optimize Success
by Elisabeth Hager, MD You have a great idea for a company, but you also have a great job, or a family that depends on you, or other realities that must be considered before you take the plunge into entrepreneurship. So how do you know when it’s time to take...
THE MARKETING ZEN GROUP
Why Good Trumps Great: The Evolution of Business
If I could call this post a manifesto, I would. And, perhaps it is just that. This mini manifesto is written for all business owners and at-heart entrepreneurs. This past weekend, I attended a dinner hosted by good friend and colleague Suzanne Falter Barns. Tim Kelley spoke at the dinner...
7 Ways to Make an Event More Memorable
Just got back yesterday from speaking at the Social Business Bootcamp in Dallas. See me smiling in the picture? It was a great event, and it got me thinking about what makes an event truly memorable. Event planners and conference hosts, take note. 1) Don’t overlook a great MC. A Master...
Why No One Will Fan Your Facebook Fan Page
Let’s face it. Your fan page is the equivalent of the party in college that no one wanted to attend. Sure, your mom and best friend may be your fans. They may fan your auto shop or financial services consulting page on Facebook. But, for the most part – no...
How to Build Offline Relationships with Bloggers
I recently had the pleasure of being invited to a dinner party hosted by Bing – yes, the search engine. Bing invited 13 Dallas bloggers to a great Dallas restaurant to demonstrate their search engine. I’ve attended a few events where companies strive to connect with bloggers. Tres Generaciones did...
Articles About Using Social Media as a Marketing Tool
The wonderful thing about a blog is that you can compile all your thoughts in one place. The downside is that key articles sometimes get buried after a while. I decided to do a round-up of our most read articles on social media. So, here are the most popular articles...
What Parents Must Know about Kids and Social Media
I usually speak on social media as it relates to marketing, but I often run into parents who ask me how they should handle social media as it relates to their kids. So, I wanted to share a few tips. Now, I am not a parenting expert. I don’t have...
So you want to launch a business...
In order to get what I want, I have to know what I want. Duh! But I have to admit that on numerous, perhaps countless, occasions I have carefully considered all the options, scientifically selected my wants, and set out to possess them - only to find that...
Who wouldn't want energy, pep, courage, determination,and know-how? Who wouldn't want to get things done? Nobody, that's who. Moxie, truth be told, ought to have almost universal appeal....
Have I dreamed myself a Market opportunity instead of actually finding one? Does my response to the perceived Market need really constitute Magic? Or is it just a me-too? Which of my fundamental assumptions carries the lowest confidence factor? What simple tweak in my plan would...
Serious success demands some bleeding, I think. Or is it blood, sweat, and tears? (The quotation, by the way, is really "...blood, tears, toil, and sweat." Thank you, Teddy Roosevelt.) Brain, ink, and bullshit won't cut it. Remember that - whether you are writing a business plan,...
If your start-up plan includes exceptional Magic, you have a fighting chance for survival. But simple possession of Magic does not put your wizardry into action. It must be released and directed by means of carefully crafted spells and incantations. Powerful Messages are always required....
The Century of the Entrepreneur
The 21st century entrepreneur can design and produce sophisticated products as quickly and cheaply as a large company, communicate with clients instantly, anywhere, and transport goods in small quantities on a global scale, all at a lower relative personal risk than ever before....
Procrastinating Entrepreneur
Removing barriers to permission
Making it difficult for visitors to your web site to contact you is a sure-fire method of creating additional barriers to building lasting permission-based relationships. ...
Small business seminar – getting more from your website
I’m doing my latest small business seminar on September 23, 2009 at 7:00pm at the Coffee Office in Burlington. The seminar will present some simple ideas that you can implement today in order to get more value from your current small business website. Space is limited, so if you’re in the...
Six Pixels of Separation: Review
Mitch Joel's new book - Six Pixels of Separation is your playbook for today's Internet. Study it and translate Mitch's ideas to fit your business. ...
A while back I subscribed to Chris Guthrie’s blog, and always found it to be a good read. Not sure exactly why I removed his site from my RSS reader but I stumbled across a post of his recently that really got me thinking. In the article, he talks about wanting...
I have been a fan of 43Folders for quite some time now and a few weeks ago Merlin was kind enough to make the audio of a presentation that he and John Gruber made at this year’s SxSW conference. Being a fan of Merlin’s site, I download the podcast to...
Winters can be tough…I know that, but for some reason this one just seems to be a little bit tougher than the last few, wouldn’t you agree? Don’t get me wrong, I am happy with the progress I am making with regards to my own business, but I just keep...
Forbes.com: Entrepreneurs and Small Business News and Information
Catch Customers--Don't Just Fish For Them
You could blame the economy for sluggish sales. Or you could thrive by truly partnering with your prospects....
Are You Born to Be a Billionaire?
It takes more than smarts. Here is an honest guide for assessing your ability to go big....
The Secrets To Triple-Digit Revenue Growth
Try a healthy mix of custom software, strong partnerships and expense flexibility....
Confessions Of A China Entrepreneur
Rand Han recounts the long journey to setting up his own businesses in Shanghai....
Go Green And Stay In The Black
Cleaning up the environment can reap more than cosmic rewards. Here are moves you can make right now....
Don't Shell Out For Just Any Document Scanner
A strategic buyer's guide....
TechCrunch
India’s Rural Cell Movement: Can You Hear Me Now?
Last time I was in India I wrote about the amazing business model innovation that had allowed telecom operators to make money on a paltry $6 a month per average user. That compares to a desired average monthly payment of $50 or more in the U.S. The results have been phenomenal—550...
Twitter Launches A Site So You Can Stalk Twitter Employees AT SXSW
While a lot of the smaller startups like Foursquare and Gowalla are getting much of the buzz at SXSW, Twitter isn't sitting idly on the location sidelines. Sure, they launched location integration on their site a few days ago, but they've also apparently set up a sub-site totally around location...
Danah Boyd: How Technology Makes A Mess Of Privacy and Publicity
Today at SXSWi, keynote speaker Danah Boyd took the stage to talk about privacy and publicity, and how they intertwine online. Boyd is a Social Media Researcher at Microsoft Research New England, and has studied this space extensively for years. It was a compelling talk that challenged the notion...
Pixelpipe Gets Into The Location Game With Foursquare Integration
Pixelpipe, the service that lets you syndicate text, audio, video and image files to 120 different social networks, blogs and sites, is adding geolocation functionality to its site with a Foursquare integration. The true virtue of Pixelpipe’s service is the fact that it lets you publish all types of files...
Foursquare Opens Up Its Firehose A Bit. Social Great Takes A Drink.
There's been a lot of hoopla over the past couple of years about Twitter's so-called "firehose." Essentially, it's an open stream of all their data that is provided to developers to use for third-party apps. Foursquare has a firehose of its own, but access to it has been on lock...
Rushin’ For Fiber, Baltimore Appoints A “Google Czar”
A couple weeks ago, we noted the city of Topeka, Kansas' humorous attempt to get Google's attention: by rebranding their city "Google, Kansas." Why would they do such a thing? Because they want in on Google's fiber action — the search giant's proposed plan to sell 1 gigabit-per-second broadband to...
Young successful entrepreneur
I’ve never had a mentor. Sure there are influential people that give me good and bad advice, but there has never been a go to person that I can turn to in my time of need. I personally view a mentor as someone older and more experienced who takes the time...
Answer to a reader: I hate my corporate job. Should I become an entrepreneur?
Let me start off by saying that I truly appreciate every email that I get from my readers. I may not be able to get back to you right away, but if you put time and effort into connecting with me and asking a very good question, then I will...
How to discipline your clients
I was in the client kickoff call with the Director of SEO and Director of PPC. After an effective 30-minute conference call, the client asks THE question that will set ALL campaign expectations: “When should we schedule our weekly meetings to discuss the campaign progress?” Director of SEO: “Best times for me...
Three miles from my house I hit the wall. I pushed as hard as I could, but my noodle legs had no effect on my forward momentum. I tightly gripped the handle bars to maintain a straight course, but my trembling and sobbing hands uncontrollably caused the wheels to shake...
Get ready for your socks to be blown off: the Launch of Untemplater!!!
This is for the professional who drags herself out of bed every morning to go to an unfulfilling job… This is for the undergraduate who can’t decide on a major or career path, and has no idea how to live happily… This is for the family who wants to break free of...
I remember my first time so well. It was Spring 2007, and I was an inexperienced 21 year-old getting ready to graduate and enter the real world. My brother Yu-kai Chou had already done it and I thought, “Yu-kai seems like such a Fob. If Yu-kai has done it, then I...
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17 Videos to Help You Grow Your Business
The amount of free quality video content available on the Internet is truly phenomenal. Whatever you want to learn, there is almost certainly a video to teach you. The following videos are presented to help you market and grow your business, with some inspiration thrown in for good measure. Enjoy,...
12 No-Cost Tools to Help Improve Your SEO
Even to some who have been online for years, SEO can be somewhat of a mystery. While there are a lot of differing opinions on the techniques that are the most effective for getting your site to the top of the search engines, there’s no doubt that a key factor...
Set and Accomplish Your Goals: 5 Easy Steps
In business and in life, we all need goals if we want to be any better off than we are right now. There are a million different methods for setting and accomplishing goals, which is great, as not every method works for everyone. The following five step process...
CoTweet – What it is and Why You Need It
You have a Twitter account, right? Of course you do. And you’ve read a lot of blog posts and articles on our site and everywhere else about optimizing your Twitter efforts for business. But you might still be struggling to efficiently, effectively connect with your customers and prospects using Twitter....
6 Blogs Every Blogger Should Read
If you’re a blogger looking to increase traffic, monetize your blog, or improve your content or design, there are quite a few blogger resource blogs that can help. As a start, we’ve put together a list of six essential blogs every blogger should read on a regular basis. Hot Blog Tips...
Like any other business or marketing tool, Twitter works well only when it’s used properly. But what does that mean? If you’re using it to drive traffic to your site, it means using some simple, specific techniques to improve Twitter’s effectiveness. Overall, the key is to stand out...