Got a Business Idea? Here's How to Start a Startup
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 [...]
Startup Costs Reduction Tips from the Airline Industry
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
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
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?
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Analyzing Startup ROI in the Music Space: Lala vs Grooveshark vs we7
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
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
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 [...]
Where to Begin Your Startup Advertising Campaign
Looking to begin your start-up marketing and run your first advertising campaign? You need to know where to start, and what to watch out for when spending your early dollars. Startup advertising can be very tricky, and if you’re not careful, you can blog the limited advertising budget you do have, being a startup.
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Top 9 Best Startup Blogs You Should Be Reading
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 [...]



