6 Steps To Immediately Starting Your Own Business
Did you just get laid off? Or are you looking for a way to earn more cash? Either way, now is the best time to start your own business, but the hardest part is getting started.
Starting a business is like pulling off a band-aid RIGHT OFF!
Collected here are 6 immediate steps you can take to [...]
2009's Highest Paying CPM Advertising Networks
We cataloged the best advertising networks in 2008, and given that things in the digital advertising world change so quickly, I wanted to update you guys on what we’re using on Grooveshark and what the highest paying ad networks you should be running on your own sites.
A couple of the networks I highlighted in the [...]
7 Easy Cost Cutting Measures to Help Businesses Weather the Recession
How can my company cut costs, but still retain our top talent? We don’t want to cut too deep and not be prepared when the economy starts to come back around.
Entrepreneurs have to make some tough decisions this Holiday season, amid the worst recession we’ve probably ever seen. If we cut back too far, we’re [...]
Are You Costing Your Company Money?
In our current economic climate, companies need to be evaluating every single expense, and how they can reduce or eliminate them. Could you be contributing to one of your company’s biggest costs?
Sure, employees are any company’s greatest expense, and also their greatest asset. I’m not suggesting that you are wasting your time, thus costing your [...]
The Secret Behind Pixar's 9 Straight Blockbusters
When putting together a great company, you start with the best talent. In our article, how to retain the best talent, we told you the best perks to help you keep your best people happy, but how do we maximize our talented workforce?
Great minds like to work in numbers, and nobody knows that better than [...]
Gainesville Delivery is Booming or How To Make Money With Local Affiliate Marketing In Your College Town
Gainesville has more restaurants per capita than any other city in North Florida. There are more than 10 different pizza restaurants, about 7 or more sushi restaurants, and countless Chinese food restaurants.
Major Breakthrough in Solar Power Could Solve Our Energy Problems
By observing how plants store energy via photosynthesis, Daniel Nocera of MIT labs has discovered a way to revolutionize how solar power is stored. The solution is apparently a scalable, very cost effective solution that can be brought to market in the near future.
Until now, solar power has been a daytime-only energy source, because storing [...]
How to Sell Ads on Your Site Without Even Trying
Like many hurdles with startups, the first of everything is always the hardest. The first money is always the hardest to raise, the first employees are always the hardest to find, and the first advertiser is always the hardest. We’ve already covered how we’re selling advertising on our startup.
Now, these days, advertising is the lifeblood [...]
Why is iMeem Killing Rhapsody, Napster, & eMusic in Traffic?
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
Start up [...]
Startup Interview: Kaplak, "The Slim End of the Long Tail" Digital Distribution
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
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
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 [...]
First Step in Starting Your Business: Incorporate Your LLC Early & Often
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, [...]
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