Wise Startup Blog

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 [...]

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 [...]

I spoke to a professional recruiter the other day who’s seeing his job being phased out due to technology and web 2.0. He’s looking to move into a Ning-like social network to help him with recruiting, staying current, and offering a scalable solution for employers. Competing for jobs in the web 2.0 world is an [...]

I spent all of this morning trying to find a good article to help me get Reddit, Stumbleupon, Delicious & Digg on my homepage as well as on each individual blog post, but I couldn’t find any good resource. Everything was just spammed-filled crap, so after spending the good part of this morning on this [...]

With the upcoming release of the iPhone 3G, and the new iPhone App store, the blogosphere has been in a flurry to cover every event tied to this release. We’ve covered the best iPhone 3G Killers, put together a new owner’s guide, and now we have the Advertising Network built around the new App Store. [...]

While I’ve tried to drum up the iPhone 3G Killer in previous posts, nothing T-mobile or Sprint or Verizon can cook up can compare to the iPhone and its entire iTunes ecosystem. Apple is such a great company because they control the entire user experience. This control does come at great costs and often can [...]

Getting started on a startup is one of the hardest things to do. People have great ideas all the time, but without an actionable plan of action, it’s hard to get from just an idea to a concrete startup company. These first steps should be invaluable to you as you take your startup idea from [...]

Your startup costs are pretty well bootstrapped, but is your start-up as lean as it could be? The airline industry is facing rising costs everywhere, and like a startup running on a credit-card balance sheet, it is taking every step to reduce costs everywhere to try to stay solvent and possibly, profitable. Startup Cost Savings [...]

What is “writing off”? Why is it so valuable for startups to be able to “write off” their costs? What costs can be “written off”? These were just some of the questions facing me prior to me beginning my startup life and learning the hard way what exactly is entailed in writing off costs and [...]

The news was confirmed that Twitter did indeed acquire Summize today, but at first I was a little confused. Twitter just received $15 million and needs to ramp up quickly. There’s a team of 6 guys at Summize that just finished a 20 month “Twitter class project,” why not consider them qualified and hire them? [...]