Startup Costs Reduction Tips from the Airline Industry

July 16, 2008

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 Tips
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How to Write Off Startup Costs

July 16, 2008

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 [...]

Twitter's 20 Month Interview: Twitter Acquires Summize

July 16, 2008

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?
With [...]

Analyzing Startup ROI in the Music Space: Lala vs Grooveshark vs we7

July 2, 2008

Working at Grooveshark, we’ve long been the underdog in the startup music game, and I definitely don’t think things have changed for us, but after 2 years of hard work, we’re finally starting to see some of the fruits of our labor. Rhapsody is spending $50 million on their new DRM-free campaign to try to [...]

Forget Headhunters, Startups Use FriendFeed to Recruit

July 2, 2008

Finding a job is a startup is tough, if you don’t know where to look. In college, I had dreams of working at a startup and getting paid little to no money and having no benefits and working ridiculously long hours, all with the vague chance that I would get some eventual payoff, and I [...]

Be Your Startup's Chief Information Officer

July 2, 2008

Knowledge is king, especially when you’re a startup and have competitors constantly beating down your door. Everyday, there are hundreds of new startups created, and if you’re not keeping a pulse on the scene, you would never know that someone has already created your same product, and already has such a head start that you’ll [...]

Startup Interview: Kaplak, "The Slim End of the Long Tail" Digital Distribution

July 1, 2008

In an effort to showcase the great startups and give them an opportunity to showcase their product, I’ve begun contacting (and receiving) startups to be interviewed for the Wise Startup Blog, and we have our first entry, Kaplak.
Kaplak is an online distribution platform for digital content creators operating in the “very slim end” of the [...]

Top 9 Best Startup Blogs You Should Be Reading

July 1, 2008

Personally I like to live my life surrounded by the best of everything. The best gadgets, the best project management suites, the best startups, and the best girlfriends. How do I constantly find the best in everything? I read a lot, a lot of the best blogs in the industry as well as plenty of [...]

KYSSS: 5 Steps to …Keep Your Startup Simple, Stupid

June 30, 2008

The new rule these days is keeping your startup as dead-simple as possible. Feature creep has so often been the problem for web 1.0 players and the web 2.5 crowd has definitely learned its lesson. I think the reason we’re seeing such a shift to simplicity in this new crowd of web 2.0 apps is [...]

MSI Wind – Legitimate Macbook Air Killer …Now that it runs Mac OSX

June 30, 2008

I hate to keep belaboring over these supposed “killers” but it appears to be the new buzzword along the lines of Web 2.0, re-compensation and the like.
If you’re like me and enjoy Macs in any flavor and variety, you’ll be extremely happy to see this ultra-portable running Mac OSX. The MSI Wind, which already is [...]

Nokia e66 Reviewed: iPhone Killer? No. iPod Killer, Maybe

June 30, 2008

With all of the iPhone killers being showcased, it’s refreshing to finally see a phone company trying to compete with the lowly iPod. Joking aside, the Nokia e66 spec list is quite impressive including, A-GPS, Wifi, 3G and a beautiful slider-form factor.
Engadget has a great hands-on with the Nokia e66, hit the jump for more:
Nokia [...]

First Step in Starting Your Business: Incorporate Your LLC Early & Often

June 30, 2008

Incorporating your startup is an important step in your long process of starting your business, forming a business plan, and generating revenue. The key point of this article is the urgency. Incorporating your business early is a big motivator to get going on your business. First, you’re going to be spending money to do this, [...]

Pictured: Voodoo Envy 133 is Legitimate Macbook Air Killer

June 27, 2008

While I was the first to brush off the Envy 133 as just another Macbook Air Killer, wannabe, these pictures have definitely changed my mind. The Voodoo Envy 133 is most definitely a Macbook Air “killer” or at least contender.
The actual hardware is absolutely beautiful and while it’s not as wafer thin as the Macbook [...]

Always Be Closing: Top 10 Sales & Marketing Blogs

June 27, 2008

If you’re planning on your startup generating revenue, which you should be doing, you had better have one hell of a sales team. And like many startup entrepreneurs, you probably haven’t spent 10 years in the sales industry and as a result, your sales skills might be a bit lacking.
These sales & marketing resources will [...]

HTC Raphael aka Touch Pro Reviewed, Verdict: Better than Xperia X1

June 27, 2008

With all of the fighting going on over iPhone 3G killers, we have a review on the HTC Raphael aka Touch Pro aka Touch version 3.0, whew!
There have been a lot of phones released since the original iPhone and sadly I can’t say any of them are as good as the iPhone. It’s really amazing [...]

Starting a Small Business? 3 Best Free Project Management Solutions for Startups

June 27, 2008

Starting to build your small business or Internet startup and don’t know where to start? Besides hiring a developer as your CTO, you should be looking at project management solutions to keep your business organized. I used to loathe project management suites, but lately I’ve given them a second chance as our business has grown [...]