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iMeem has received ~$25 million in Venture Capital, currently has all 4 major labels signed to licensing deals, and has about 10 million visitors per month to their website. As for their competition, Rhapsody is doing the best with 4 million visitors, while Napster and eMusic struggle with 2 million visitors. Granted, these are great [...]

To thank my loyal readers of Wise Startup Blog, I’ve collected 5 Grooveshark $5 gift cards on a first-come-first serve basis for use on any of Grooveshark’s ~9 million or so tracks. Chris Pirillo recently claimed you could find any song on Grooveshark, so make a search and try to find something they don’t have.
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As a startup entrepreneur, you have to learn a lot on your own. You most likely don’t have any experience building a company and most likely you’ve probably never worked for a real company before, at least I can speak for those of us fresh out of college or dropouts.
So a lot of what we [...]

Have the itch to start a business but don’t know the best place to start? Let’s start by walking you through setting your own startup blog so you can flesh out some ideas and start to network with the entrepreneur community online.
I’m going to walk you through setting up your own startup blog, just like [...]

Raising money is one of the most difficult aspects of running a startup, and assuming you already know how to self-fund and bootstrap for as long as possible. You have to go to a complete stranger, and ask them to invest whole-heartedly in you, and your idea. Obviously this task gets a lot easier as [...]