Entrepreneur

• Still Waiting for Obama's SBA Chief Nominee
  The White House has yet to select a replacement for Karen Mills, head of the U.S. Small Business Administration.
  - 15 hours ago, 23 May 13, 3:06pm -
• 4 Lessons From the Nightmarish Amy's Baking Company
  Think the customer is always wrong? Here are a few lessons in entrepreneurship from the latest Kitchen Nightmares' season finale.
  - 17 hours ago, 23 May 13, 1:00pm -
• NHL Playoffs: Lessons in Building a Winning Sales Team
  Like a successful hockey team, empower your employees and play to their strengths.
  - 18 hours ago, 23 May 13, 12:00pm -
• 6 Ways to Track Your Competition's Marketing Strategy
  Staying on top of your competitor's marketing tactics is key if you want to be ahead of the game. But you don't need a big budget to do it. Here are six easy ways to stay in the know.
  - 18 hours ago, 23 May 13, 11:30am -
• Startup Weekend and Startup America Partner to Jumpstart Global Entrepreneurship
  With the support of AOL Co-Founder Steve Case, new organization UP Global aims to accelerate startup communities around the world.
  - 19 hours ago, 23 May 13, 10:55am -
• Just Sitting on the Dock of the Bay? Next Time, Avoid Importing Delays
  Get your products across the border more quickly with these tips from shipping experts.
  - 19 hours ago, 23 May 13, 10:30am -
• 4 Essentials for Successful Mobile Apps
  The mobile app market is growing by the minute. But with more than a million apps available to consumers, how can you ensure your idea is successful? Here are four key factors to keep in mind.
  - 21 hours ago, 23 May 13, 9:00am -
• Downtown Las Vegas Reimagined as a Startup (Photos)
  In the last of a four-part series on Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh's Downtown Project, we look at the city in the process of reinvention.
  - 23 hours ago, 23 May 13, 7:00am -
• Health Insurance Reform: Steps to Take Now to Prepare
  Plan ahead for Obamacare to control costs and limit confusion.
  - 24 hours ago, 23 May 13, 6:00am -
• The Pros and Cons of Google Glass for Business Travel
  Despite some drawbacks, Google's futuristic eyewear can be an indispensable travel device.
  - 1 day ago, 23 May 13, 5:00am -
• After Hacks, Twitter Updates Sign-In Security
  The microblogging service has updated its safeguards to include two passwords when logging in.
  - 2 days ago, 22 May 13, 3:45pm -
• Lessons in Persuasion From Apple CEO Tim Cook
  Cook's appearance before the U.S. Senate on Tuesday was a master class in the art of negotiation.
  - 2 days ago, 22 May 13, 3:00pm -
• U.S. Entrepreneurship Climbs to Highest Level in More Than a Decade (Infographic)
  More than one in 10 Americans were developing their own business in 2012, according to the U.S. Global Entrepreneurship Monitor released today. Here's a look at the demographics of the community.
  - 2 days ago, 22 May 13, 1:25pm -
• The Psychology of Color and Branding (Infographic)
  Why companies like McDonald's and Pizza Hut prefer red whereas Lowe's opts for blue.
  - 2 days ago, 22 May 13, 11:30am -
• YouTube Basics: How to Edit a Video
  Start producing more professional YouTube videos with these four easy steps.
  - 2 days ago, 22 May 13, 11:00am -
• Using Apps to Connect with Employees (Video)
  It's an often overlooked strategy, but Mobile Roadie CEO Michael Schneider says businesses can use apps to communicate with staff on their smart phones and tablets.
  - 2 days ago, 22 May 13, 10:30am -
• Need a Beer? These Ballpark Apps Are Changing How You Get One
  You can order just about anything on your smartphone, so why are you stuck in line for nachos at the ballpark? These three startups keep you in your seat and concession stands hopping.
  - 2 days ago, 22 May 13, 10:00am -

• Entrepreneurs, Politicians Join in a Virtual March on Washington for Immigration Reform
  A group of lawmakers and innovators press Congress to pass an immigration overhaul.
  - 2 days ago, 22 May 13, 9:57am -
• 6 Tips for Taking Your Video Ad Content Mobile
  As consumers increasingly tune in to videos on their mobile devices, young entrepreneurs should consider how best to reach them.
  - 2 days ago, 22 May 13, 9:30am -
• How Your Attitude Can Win You Sales
  Being successful at selling isn't about your product. It's about your personality. Here are three ways to harness the power of a great attitude to close even the toughest sale.
  - 2 days ago, 22 May 13, 9:00am -
• Downtown Diary: Inside Zappos and the $350 Million Urban Experiment in Las Vegas
  In the third of a four-part series, we take you behind the scenes for a first-hand look at Tony Hsieh's Downtown Project, which is counting on entrepreneurs to help revitalize Sin City.
  - 2 days ago, 22 May 13, 5:00am -
• SBA Secures Pledge from Banks to Lend More to Veteran Entrepreneurs
  The government's small-business agency announces a pledge to support approximately 2,000 additional businesses.
  - 3 days ago, 21 May 13, 2:27pm -
• 3 Leadership Lessons From Tumblr's David Karp
  Learn how the 26-year-old founder navigated the challenges of growing the business in the early days.
  - 3 days ago, 21 May 13, 2:25pm -
• The Key to Building a Strong Online Reputation (Infographic)
  Managing your company's digital brand is an important part of your success. Here is a detailed look at the right -- and wrong -- way to do it.
  - 3 days ago, 21 May 13, 1:00pm -
• Why 'You' May Be Standing in the Way of Your Company's Success
  In business, as in life, your preconceived notions can wreck your future potential. To stamp them out, consider an attitude adjustment.
  - 3 days ago, 21 May 13, 12:00pm -

Forbes - Entrepreneurs

• Deconstructing Google's Strategy: Will Google Eat Your Business Next?
  After Google’s I/O announcements, I flashed back to a dozen or so conversations I've had with executives and entrepreneurs about what Google is doing. Reading between the lines, some imagined buying yachts after a Google acquisition. Others feare…
  - 4 hours ago, 24 May 13, 2:04am -
• The Google Search Evolution
  Design changes to Google Search that Jon Wiley and his team have worked on in the past few years:
  - 7 hours ago, 23 May 13, 10:59pm -
• Deconstructing Google's Strategy: Will Google Eat Your Business Next?
  After Google’s I/O announcements, I flashed back to a dozen or so conversations I've had with executives and entrepreneurs about what Google is doing. Reading between the lines, some imagined buying yachts after a Google acquisition. Others feare…
  - 7 hours ago, 23 May 13, 10:59pm -
• The Top 10 Future Tech Trends From 5 Top Venture Capitalists
  The only thing people in Silicon Valley like to do more than talk about the future of tech is to invent it. Tonight they settled for the second-best thing, in the form of the popular Top 10 Tech Trends dinner.
  - 9 hours ago, 23 May 13, 9:09pm -
• Here's Why Janet Jackson Is Not On Our Billionaires' List
  Plenty of publications are erroneously reporting her net worth.
  - 9 hours ago, 23 May 13, 8:45pm -
• Wouldn't It Be Cool If?
  Perhaps the 5 most dangerous words one can ask in the early stages of Business Development are “Wouldn’t it be cool if...?”
  - 10 hours ago, 23 May 13, 7:48pm -
• What Hollywood Can Learn From The 'Fast & Furious' Franchise
  'Fast & Furious 6' is expected to top the box office this holiday weekend with $100 million over four days.
  - 12 hours ago, 23 May 13, 6:03pm -
• Invest In American Manufacturing? Five Charts For Your Business Decision
  Is manufacturing a good bet in America these days? The talk about reshoring, in which companies return to the United States those operations that they had previously located in a foreign country, is spurring renewed interest in factories here. Let’…
  - 12 hours ago, 23 May 13, 6:01pm -
• What LeBron James, In The Clutch, Can Teach Us About Managing Fear
  LeBron James may seem to have leapt out of the womb blessed with unrivaled basketball skills – but the ability to be a clutch performer didn’t come automatically.  It came with time and practice and, yes, failure.  And when he led his Miami Hea…
  - 12 hours ago, 23 May 13, 5:59pm -
• New Ford Campaign Counts On UEFA Soccer To Reach Europe
  The "most-watched sporting event on the planet" will be played this weekend at Wembley Stadium in London, as Bloomberg notes. And while it has declared "Germany" as the "winner" because both finalists are German teams, there's likely to be another bi…
  - 12 hours ago, 23 May 13, 5:51pm -
• IRS Takes The Fifth, But You Can't
  WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 22: IRS Director of Exempt Organizations Lois Lerner is sworn in before testifying to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee May 22, 2013 in Washington, DC. The committee is investigating allegations that the IRS ta…
  - 12 hours ago, 23 May 13, 5:28pm -
• Why Forecasting Leads To Success In Your Business
  Far too many SMBs seem to get surprised by changes in the marketplace because they don't take advantage of a forgotten skill: forecasting.
  - 13 hours ago, 23 May 13, 5:24pm -
• Are You Ready To Call It Quits?
  By Erika Morphy
  - 13 hours ago, 23 May 13, 4:42pm -
• The 10 Highest-Paid Women in Music 2012
  From Britney Spears to Beyoncé, these millionaire artists are giving further proof that girls do indeed run the world.
  - 14 hours ago, 23 May 13, 3:32pm -
• Here's Why Janet Jackson Is Not On Our Billionaires' List
  The Internet is abuzz with news that singer Janet Jackson is a billionaire. In fact several news outlets are saying she is "officially" a billionaire.
  - 14 hours ago, 23 May 13, 3:32pm -
• Choose The Winners Of The 'Power of Age' Challenge
  I don’t know about you, but I’m weary of reading articles about how retirement may be lousy in coming years for many Americans.
  - 14 hours ago, 23 May 13, 3:26pm -
• Tesla Model S
  
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• Will Tesla Have To Give Up And Let Dealers Sell Its Cars?
  A few weeks ago, I came across the Tesla Motors showroom in Fashion Square, an upscale shopping mall in Scottsdale, Arizona. That's exactly what it is: a show room, because Tesla can't sell cars in Arizona, as the polite clerk informed me.
  - 15 hours ago, 23 May 13, 3:09pm -
• Luxury Cruises: An Insider's Guide To Crystal Symphony's Cabin Prices
  The Hotel Detective is loath to admit it, but he didn’t have to do much Sherlock Holmesing to compile this cabin crib sheet for the Crystal Symphony.
  - 15 hours ago, 23 May 13, 2:59pm -
• Is America Clueless?
  Well, that is what New York Times op-ed columnist Frank Bruni is suggesting, based on recent research:
  - 15 hours ago, 23 May 13, 2:40pm -
• What Hollywood Can Learn From The 'Fast & Furious' Franchise
  Memorial Day weekend is traditionally one of the most important in Hollywood. The official start of summer (complete with an extra day off) is the perfect time for high-grossing blockbusters. Back in 2009, when the franchise started, no one would hav…
  - 15 hours ago, 23 May 13, 2:27pm -
• The Cities Winning The Battle For Information Jobs
  The information industry has long been a darling of the media -- no surprise since the media constitutes a major part of this economic sector, which includes publishing, software, entertainment and data processing. Yet until the last few years, it ha…
  - 15 hours ago, 23 May 13, 2:27pm -
• The Big Cities Winning The Battle For Information Jobs
  New Orleans leads a cadre of smaller, cheaper metro areas that are pulling jobs away from the likes of New York and Los Angeles.
  - 15 hours ago, 23 May 13, 2:27pm -
• Yahoo's Top 10 Biggest Acquisitions
  
  - 16 hours ago, 23 May 13, 2:14pm -
• The Conde Nast Startup Story Yahoo Should Study For Tumblr
  The announcement of Yahoo’s $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr on Monday has been the talk of Internet Week in New York, with many such as venture capitalist Eric Hippeau praising the purchase as a victory for the New York tech community. Now comes…
  - 16 hours ago, 23 May 13, 2:14pm -
• Troubled Visa Settlement Takes Another Hit As Retailers File Own Suit
  A $7 billion antitrust settlement over credit-card processing fees that critics say would make things worse for retailers suffered another insult today as Target, Macy's and J.C. Penney filed their own lawsuit accusing Visa and Mastercard of generati…
  - 16 hours ago, 23 May 13, 2:11pm -
• Fidelity: 401(k) Balances Reach Record Highs
  Have you checked your 401(k) balance lately? You might be in for a pleasant surprise.
  - 16 hours ago, 23 May 13, 1:30pm -
• Earliest Known Patek Philippe Grand Complication May Fetch $1.5M At Auction
  Christie’s New York will offer The Stephen S. Palmer Patek Philippe Grand Complication No. 97912 as the highlight of its New York Important Watches auction on June 11. It is estimated to fetch $1 to $1.5 million.
  - 17 hours ago, 23 May 13, 1:07pm -
• 10 Best SUVs Under $25,000
  Here's a look at the best models and the best values in what's among the hottest segments of the auto business.
  - 17 hours ago, 23 May 13, 12:56pm -

Entrepreneurship.org

• For the 50+ market, it's about quality of life, not cool technology
  Representatives from AARP and Geisinger Health System make no pretensions: They’re not into technology just because it’s cool. While the 50+ population and doctors appear to be dissimilar markets, selling to either requires a deep underst…
  - 2 days ago, 22 May 13, 9:43am -
• Nobody puts baby food in a corner
  As a health nut and foodie, 36-year-old Shazi Visram had a problem with processed baby food. Namely, it was gross, and people felt bad about feeding it to their kids.
  - 2 days ago, 22 May 13, 7:58am -
• VCs should pump up their startups with data
  Giving startups the tools and resources they need to compete on analytics would give investment firms and their startups a huge competitive advantage. Startups would grow revenue faster, reducing their level of technology debt.
  - 2 days ago, 22 May 13, 7:37am -
• The devil you know: entrepreneurs prefer current ventures to new ones
  Entrepreneurs are subject to many of the same biases that cause people to persist with their investments, and don't necessarily behave to always maximize outcomes when presented with lucrative new opportunities, a new study says.
  - 2 days ago, 21 May 13, 11:26pm -
• Coding Skills Combine With Civic Consciousness to Improve Government
  Making cities work better through high-tech innovation,that's the ambitious goal of one San Francisco startup.
  - 2 days ago, 21 May 13, 7:58pm -

• Should we let wunderkinds drop out of high school?
  It's one thing to say tech geniuses don't need degrees. After all, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg all dropped out of college. But now we've got David Karp, who doesn't even have a high school diploma. Karp, 26, founded Tumblr, the online…
  - 3 days ago, 21 May 13, 1:14pm -
• The Experimental Nature of Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh
  How the serial entrepreneur is betting on startups to revitalize Las Vegas with his $350 million Downtown Project.
  - 4 days ago, 20 May 13, 5:59am -
• Why Ireland is the number one place to start up in Europe
  Ireland may seem like an unlikely choice of location to start up a new business, but within the debt-stricken country, a new hope of entrepreneurship is emerging from the ruins of the Celtic Tiger.  
  - 4 days ago, 20 May 13, 3:02am -
• The New "Handmade"
  Amid grumblings of a “general fatigue” when it comes to software-based startups, a potentially transformative technology called 3D printing is poised to reach critical mass and mainstream awareness.
  - 4 days ago, 19 May 13, 10:04pm -
• You call Google Glass wearable tech? Heapsylon makes sensor-rich fabric
  Three former Microsoft employees believe clothing will be the computer, and to that end they invested three years of their lives building a sensor-infused material that they promptly turned into ... a pair of socks.
  - 8 days ago, 16 May 13, 9:15am -
• Why High Schools Should Treat Computer Programming Like Algebra
  And 5 other cool ideas from The Atlantic's Technologies In Education Forum.
  - 8 days ago, 15 May 13, 7:43pm -
• This Cloud Startup Is Hiring Away Google And Facebook Engineers To Solve Enterprise IT Headaches
  Nutanix, a cloud startup that has poached top engineers from Google and Facebook , is using the talent to make data centers easier to manage. Nutanix's flagship product is a hardware and software appliance that's installed in a rack in a customer's d…
  - 8 days ago, 15 May 13, 7:07pm -
• Why Inventors Should Become Entrepreneurs
  Innovative entrepreneurs are likely to keep inventing, says Daniel Spulber, a professor of management and strategy at the Kellogg School.
  - 9 days ago, 15 May 13, 4:30pm -
• Tapping the Entrepreneurial Potential of Grassroots Innovation
  Instead of treating poor people as a sink of public aid and assistance, we should view them as a source of new ideas and innovations.
  - 9 days ago, 15 May 13, 4:22pm -
• So you want to be a Fortune 500 company...
  Most businesses never make the revenue threshold, which is just over $4.8 billion this year. But the few that do share five crucial traits.
  - 9 days ago, 15 May 13, 5:27am -
• Russians attempt to topple Google in Vietnam
  Vietnam's booming Internet scene is littered with failed startups that tried to take on Google and other entrenched U.S web companies. That's not deterring a newly launched Russian-Vietnamese outfit which believes it can unseat the American search en…
  - 9 days ago, 15 May 13, 2:22am -
• The New Sexy (at Least to VCs): Mobile Business Apps
  A year ago, employees at computer giant Hewlett-Packard Co. used to stuff 100-page contracts into FedEx envelopes and mail out thousands of them to customers, distributors and suppliers all over the world -- daily.  . . . Today, all that shuttli…
  - 9 days ago, 14 May 13, 8:49pm -
• I Screwed Up: How 3 Famed Entrepreneurs Learned From Failure
  Barbara Corcoran, David Mintz and Fran Tarkenton reveal their biggest business mistakes and the lessons they learned.
  - 10 days ago, 14 May 13, 10:44am -
• How Entrepreneur Friendly are the Top 10 Startup Hubs?
  Before you pack your bags and head off to Silicon Valley, check out how the top startup ecosystems rank when it comes to ease of starting a business.
  - 10 days ago, 14 May 13, 10:44am -
• Moms spur family tech boom
  At the place where motherhood meets entrepreneur and play dates collide with iPads, a new market for parent- and kid-friendly technology is exploding.
  - 11 days ago, 13 May 13, 7:12am -
• The Bitcoin Buzz and How Young Entrepreneurs are Cashing in
  You can't open a website or newspaper these days without reading about Bitcoin, the digital currency that was invented in 2009 by a mystery person who goes by the name of Satoshi Nakamoto. The latest news is Fred Wilson's Union Square Ventures just a…
  - 13 days ago, 11 May 13, 4:15pm -
• The Latinos of Silicon Valley
  What’s most striking about the emerging Silicon Valley Latino community is how it challenges one of the most prevalent cultural stereotypes:  that Latinos have little to do with one of the principle engines of the 21-century economy. …
  - 13 days ago, 11 May 13, 12:00am -
• Using Investing Acumen To Put Dollars Into Impact
  Bill Ackman is very wealthy. He’s trying to put that wealth to good use not through charity, but through investing it in high-impact organizations. The trick is finding the ones that both give returns and make a difference.
  - 14 days ago, 10 May 13, 2:00pm -
• Credit Pinch for Small Business Impedes U.S. Job Growth
  Jim Brown, owner of JWB Properties LLC, says community banks called him almost every day in 2006 trying to lend him money. Now, his homebuilding business in Atlanta can't get a loan.
  - 14 days ago, 10 May 13, 10:18am -
• Russell Buckley Joins UK Government To Bring About Silicon Valley In The UK
  Today in interesting moves comes the news that serial entrepreneur-turned-investor Russell Buckley - who co-founded AdMob (which sold to Google) is joining the UK government to accelerate its policies around startups, mainly funding. Specifically, he…
  - 14 days ago, 10 May 13, 7:50am -
• The Single Biggest Factor VCs Look For In Startup Founders
  As a venture capitalist, I’m asked all the time what will help a company get funded. The reality is, there are a lot of factors, and no two companies – or founders – are the same. Sometimes we bet on the horse or the race (the produ…
  - 14 days ago, 10 May 13, 12:00am -
• As Tech Giants Scramble For Talent, It's Buy Or Die
  The writing's on the wall. Mobile is the future, and it requires different skill than the web. Entrepreneurship is more fetishized than ever, making standard hiring tough. The result is days like today where Yahoo, Twitter, Salesforce, and Box all bo…
  - 14 days ago, 9 May 13, 9:04pm -
• Obama Wants More Open Government Data for Entrepreneurs
  The Obama administration today unveiled a new "Open Data" initiative that calls on the feds to make sure that, going forward, data is collected and created in an open and machine-readable format.
  - 15 days ago, 9 May 13, 12:06pm -
• Startup uses crowdsourcing, but not for cash
  A Twin Cities startup that’s preparing to launch a treatment that helps staunch bleeding has the capital it needs, but not the marketing data. So it’s turning to the crowd for help.
  - 18 days ago, 6 May 13, 11:08am -
• South Carolina May Get More Angels
  It looks like South Carolina's going to get more angels soon — angel investors, that is. The House and Senate this year have approved virtually identical bills that would provide a 35 percent income tax credit to home-grown investors who provide ca…
  - 18 days ago, 6 May 13, 9:37am -
• The $1 million mouse hunt
  Mouse 10468 has climbed up the metal bars to the top of her cage, desperately sniffing for a way out.
  - 18 days ago, 6 May 13, 7:37am -
• Economic View: An Economic Cure for Pandemics
  An outbreak of avian flu in Asia raises questions about national preparedness for pandemics. A reward system for medical innovators would be a step in the right direction, an economist says.
  - 20 days ago, 4 May 13, 3:36pm -
• A Company Still Living The Dream Of American Manufacturing
  The story of Amuneal, a high-end design fabricator, offers lessons in how American manufacturers can survive by serving a small but critical niche.
  - 22 days ago, 2 May 13, 7:45am -
• Lawmakers, entrepreneurs promote venture capital bill
  State legislators, investors and entrepreneurs almost overwhelmingly supported a bill to invest $25 million into early startup businesses at a public hearing Wednesday, with only a few minor hesitations.
  - 22 days ago, 2 May 13, 7:01am -
• Google makes $125mln investment into Lending Club
  Google Inc. is making a play into peer-to-peer lending, The Wall Street Journal reports. The Internet search giant is making the bulk of a $125 million investment into San Francisco-based Lending Club, in a deal which values the fast-growing startup…
  - 22 days ago, 2 May 13, 12:18am -
• Startup Business Owners Optimistic About Their Growth
  Newly minted business owners’ confidence is climbing, in spite of their reservations about the nation's overall economic health, according to a startup confidence index released today. Their rosy outlook is also tempered by diminished expectati…
  - 22 days ago, 2 May 13, 12:00am -
• One State Is Leading In Investment Crowdfunding: Guess Which One
  Add North Carolina to the growing list of states working on intrastate investment crowdfunding legislation, especially as the equity crowdfunding proposal of the Jumpstart Our Business Startup Act (JOBS Act) won’t be brought up by the SEC for a…
  - 22 days ago, 2 May 13, 12:00am -
• Schools Should Invest in Student Entrepreneurs
  There is a reason why “entrepreneur” etymologically comes from antique French words that mean “to undertake.” When it comes to subjects such as entrepreneurship, people learn much more by doing, rather than from lessons in a c…
  - 28 days ago, 26 Apr 13, 1:34pm -
• The Truth About Entrepreneurs: Twice As Many Are Over 50 than Under 25
  Myths abound about the young entrepreneurs who dreamed up crazy ideas while in their dorm room, raised millions of dollars in venture capital, and started billion-dollar businesses. But these are just the outliers. The typical entrepreneur is more li…
  - 28 days ago, 26 Apr 13, 11:02am -
• What Startups Need to Understand About The Booming Corporate Entrepreneurship Ecosystem
  Every year, large corporations spend billions of dollars on supporting, investing in, marketing to, and donating to small businesses, startups, and the organizations that support them. These numbers are rising dramatically as interest in the entrepre…
  - 29 days ago, 25 Apr 13, 12:00am -

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Popular New Entrepreneurship Books

• #7: Do It! Marketing: 77 Instant-Action Ideas to Boost Sales, Maximize Profits, and Crush Your Competition

  

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Small Business Brief

• Short Term Thinking Can Harm Your Business
  The problem with project thinking is it leads you into the trap of continually needing new customers to have a healthy business. It can also mean that you get swamped with work for a time and then nothing, so you need to attract more customers. Sure…
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• How to Make a Great How-To Video
  If a picture speaks a thousand words, then a video certainly adds a good few more on top of that. One area in which video is invaluable is the “how-to” instructional that takes a diagram, recipe, or list of steps and brings the topic to life. Whe…
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• Merchants Push Sales Through Social Media
  After learning how to market themselves through tweets and status updates, some small companies are taking the next step: selling directly to consumers via social-networking sites. Merchants on Facebook and MySpace are adding e-commerce stores to the…
  - 3 Jun 10, 3:23pm -
• Small Business Owners Lending Money to Employees – Good Business Sense?
  There's no firm statistics on how many small-business owners lend money to staff. But those who frequently engage in the practice say it makes good business sense. One reason, they say, is that it can help prevent a slowdown in productivity because w…
  - 3 Jun 10, 3:17pm -
• Does the Internet Show the True Colors of Your Business?
  What attitude adjustments should you make in your business to influence your employees? The next time you get a customer complaint, online or not, is your reaction, "Oh geez, here we go again?" Or do you think to yourself, "A customer problem! This i…
  - 2 Jun 10, 4:50pm -

• What Every Entrepreneur Can Learn From Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg
  Despite all the criticism that Mark Zuckerberg has taken for his actions in the past, there is one thing that nobody can contest: Zuckerberg is an extremely shrewd business person. He often thinks in terms of decades, not days, weeks, or months, and…
  - 2 Jun 10, 4:35pm -
• OPENapps Launches Web App Marketplace to Bring Together Developers and Website Owners
  OPENapps allows app developers to easily get their application to market and provides website owners a way to find and integrate apps into their sites while still maintaining their own branding.Click here to read the full article...Related posts…
  - 2 Jun 10, 4:17pm -
• 4 Powerful Marketing Lessons From a Voyage Around The World
  If you do not live in Australia you may not have seen the news that a 16 year old girl named Jessica Watson successfully sailed around the world unassisted. Apart from the feat itself which was pretty astounding, what caught my attention was the plan…
  - 2 Jun 10, 1:52pm -
• Do You Know Your Time-is-Money Rate?
  I think this time-is-money analysis is important because sometimes we get too cheap with business expenses. I can give you lots of examples including: Are you spending extra hours on cheap rental cars? Does the money saved equal time saved? How much…
  - 29 May 10, 9:42am -
• Five Tips For Not Getting Ripped Off By A Credit Card Processor
  If you have your own business, you most likely have gone through the annoying and frustrating process of choosing a credit card processor (also called a merchant account provider) in order to accept credit cards. Since there is not a lot of informati…
  - 28 May 10, 6:20pm -

Tech Cocktail Headlines

• FraudCop: Fraud Prevention for the Healthcare Industry
  Zigron Healthcare is the product of two great minds meeting. Quasim Mueen and Frank Din designed a focused, scientific approach for fraud prevention in the healthcare industry with their flagship application, FraudCop. The team employs a multitude o…
  - 14 hours ago, 23 May 13, 4:00pm -
• Splash: Broadcast Event Photos from Attendees in Real-Time
  Ben Hindman, former director of events for Thrillist, found that his day-to-day, repetitive event management work – like invitations, guest list management, and post-event recaps – was difficult enough without having to create a dedicated, online…
  - 16 hours ago, 23 May 13, 2:00pm -
• Ryan Downs of Proxibid: You Have to Take a Personal Risk
  Ryan Downs, CEO and president of real-time online auction marketplace Proxibid, has it easy. Or at least he thinks he does. That’s because he learned to work hard early. When Downs was a kid, he worked at the family farm in Nebraska. “We put in l…
  - 18 hours ago, 23 May 13, 12:00pm -
• The Mad Video Wins San Francisco’s Hottest Showcasing Startup
  Last night at Tech Cocktail’s San Francisco Mixer, The Mad Video was announced as the Hottest Showcasing Startup reader’s choice. The SF-based startup offers a platform to make online videos more interactive and giver users the ability to better…
  - 19 hours ago, 23 May 13, 10:30am -
• Teresa Taylor: Women Can Have It All, Except Work-Life Balance [Interview]
  When women have kids, Teresa Taylor doesn’t want to see them quit their jobs or work part-time. But she does want them to throw out the idea of work-life balance. In The Balance Myth: Rethinking Work/Life Success, Taylor shares tips and personal st…
  - 20 hours ago, 23 May 13, 10:01am -

• How to Sleep Better as an Entrepreneur
  
  - 22 hours ago, 23 May 13, 7:59am -
• Startup America Winds Down. Rolled Into UP Global With Startup Weekend
  After two and half years of helping to foster entrepreneurship, the Startup America Partnership has announced they will be rolled into Startup Weekend, which is backed by the Kauffman Foundation. The two brands will live under the new brand, Up Globa…
  - 1 day ago, 22 May 13, 6:00pm -
• KinderReader Uses Technology to Teach Young Students to Read
  With more and more research showing the importance of proper education in the formative years of adolescence, early education providers have focused on increasing the technology used in their classrooms. High schools and universities rely on technolo…
  - 2 days ago, 22 May 13, 4:00pm -
• Startup Lessons from the Blackjack Table: Meet Card Counter Colin Jones
  The first time blackjack player Colin Jones went to Vegas, he lost a whopping $40,000 and still got kicked out of the Bellagio for card counting. But he would later win $50,000 in one sitting – a night when he felt he couldn’t lose. “You rememb…
  - 2 days ago, 22 May 13, 11:00am -
• Code Fellows to Hold Ruby on Rails Bootcamp for Women Only
  
  - 2 days ago, 22 May 13, 10:00am -
• 27 Simple Health Tips for Entrepreneurs, From Entrepreneurs
  This post is part of Tech Cocktail’s “Healthy Entrepreneur” series, bringing you insights on food, exercise, and sleep on Mondays and Wednesdays throughout May. The series is presented by Coromega (more info and a giveaway at the bottom). In…
  - 2 days ago, 22 May 13, 8:00am -
• MakerSquare Produces Industry-Ready Coders in 10 Weeks
  MakerSquare is the kind of idea that inspires ideas. In its simplest form, it is a 10-week, intensive, full-time, full-stack web development program. But if you talk to cofounder Ravi Parikh about the company, the discussion quickly moves from the si…
  - 3 days ago, 21 May 13, 4:00pm -
• Create Music Scrapbooks and Journals with FanAddict
  “Everybody’s working for the weekend,” famed poets Loverboy once said. And sometimes on the weekend. We work – too much – and we save what we sow from our weekday grind – not enough – to use to unwind. We use sports, hiking, or art for…
  - 3 days ago, 21 May 13, 3:00pm -
• Improve Your Startup’s Reputation With BrandYourself
  Every startup or business owner has concerns about their online reputation. However, when you’re in the beginning of launching your business, it can be difficult to find room in your budget for your branding strategy. BrandYourself makes brand mana…
  - 3 days ago, 21 May 13, 2:00pm -
• Integrate Information and Data with Onspring’s Business Solution Applications
  Software solutions are vital to businesses of any size. Incorporating data and information across software services effectively can be the deciding factor in achieving business goals. With the growing number of software programs and applications, bus…
  - 3 days ago, 21 May 13, 12:00pm -
• For Entrepreneur and Cancer Survivor Rob Gough, Anything Is Possible
  At age 18, Rob Gough was diagnosed with a rare bone cancer. He was just finishing his freshman year in college, but he would have to put his studies on hold and spend the next year and a half going through chemotherapy. Those 17 long months were spen…
  - 3 days ago, 21 May 13, 10:00am -
• Interview with 16-Year-Old App Developer Canzhi Ye
  At age 12, Canzhi Ye went to Camp CAEN at the University of Michigan to learn Java and C# programming. A year later, when his mom got an iPod Touch, some new possibilities opened up for him. After some Googling, Ye figured out that anyone could devel…
  - 3 days ago, 21 May 13, 8:00am -
• Blumoo: Use Your Mobile Device as a Bluetooth Stereo Remote
  You have a high-quality stereo system that powers outdoor speakers on your deck? Awesome, but can you manage playlists and change songs without walking inside? Is everything readily available at the touch of a button on your Bluetooth, smartphone rem…
  - 4 days ago, 20 May 13, 2:00pm -
• Seamless and GrubHub to Merge
  Seamless and GrubHub, both sites for ordering takeout, today announced that they plan to merge. Combined, they cover over 20,000 takeout restaurants in over 500 cities in the United States. The new organization will be headed by CEO Matt Maloney, Gru…
  - 4 days ago, 20 May 13, 12:57pm -
• Engineering a High Performance Startup with Diet & Lifestyle; An Interview with Robb Wolf of The Paleo Solution
  This post is part of Tech Cocktail’s “Healthy Entrepreneur” series, bringing you insights on food, exercise, and sleep on Mondays and Wednesdays throughout May. The series is presented by Coromega (more info and a giveaway at the bottom). At…
  - 4 days ago, 20 May 13, 10:47am -
• Yahoo! Acquisition Of Tumblr Gets Them Fresh Street Cred
  Today as we reported earlier, Yahoo! agreed to acquire New York based microblogging platform Tumblr for $1.1 billion. The bold move by Yahoo!’s CEO Marissa Mayer, which she announced on her Tumblr with an animated gif, has been the subject of analy…
  - 4 days ago, 20 May 13, 10:15am -
• 5 Ways to Get Investors Interested in Your Startup
  Entrepreneurs have a number of funding options available to them. From crowdsourcing to angel investors and venture capitalists, there are many organizations and individuals interested in backing startups. Businesses can avoid going into debt from hi…
  - 4 days ago, 20 May 13, 10:00am -
• iPrecinct Levels the Playing Field in Political Campaigning
  In political campaigns, from city councilman to president, candidates first have to fight to get the official party nomination. With that blessing from above comes financing and support, including access to the party’s software and database. If you…
  - 4 days ago, 20 May 13, 8:00am -
• Yahoo! to Acquire Tumblr for $1.1 Billion; Won’t “Screw It Up”
  Today, Yahoo! announced that it agreed to acquire Tumblr for $1.1 billion. From the press release: “Per the agreement and our promise not to screw it up, Tumblr will be independently operated as a separate business. David Karp will remain CEO. Th…
  - 4 days ago, 20 May 13, 7:12am -
• Create Custom Couture Fashion with Indira
  It is not everyday that a former trauma surgeon, a former hedge fund manager, and a former Miss Florida USA – who has a fashion background – come together to launch a startup. And it is really not everyday when the trauma surgeon, hedge fund mana…
  - 5 days ago, 19 May 13, 11:00am -
• Fleshbot Fiction Heats Up the Internet with Electronic Erotica
  Lux Alptraum is a woman of many talents: writer, sex educator, and CEO. Her writings have appeared in Cosmopolitan, Hustler, and at SundanceChannel.com, among many others. She has spoken at notable institutions like Harvard, Brown, Yale, New York Uni…
  - 5 days ago, 19 May 13, 9:00am -
• Optimize Website Traffic With Lucky Orange’s Powerhouse Data Analytics
  You have just finished building an epic new website, but there seems to be a little voice inside your head telling you it amounts to nothing and will get no traffic. When it comes to a new website, it can be tricky to be sure of what is going on with…
  - 5 days ago, 19 May 13, 7:00am -
• The Top 10 Tech Cocktail Stories of the Week
  We get it, you’re busy.  You weren’t able to get to every Tech Cocktail post this week.  Fear not, because we’ve curated the week’s top 10(ish) posts as determined by the Tech Cocktail editorial team. To get the Tech Cocktail weekly wrap-up…
  - 6 days ago, 18 May 13, 11:00am -
• Create a Personalized Digital Shopping Magazine with Pickie
  Online shopping has grown dramatically, year over year. And with that growth, new product discovery content has blossomed on the web and on mobile platforms. Pickie is one of the newer, more personalized mobile shopping options. An iOS application, P…
  - 6 days ago, 18 May 13, 9:00am -
• Hiring Skilled Tech Candidates: A Guide for Employers [INFOGRAPHIC]
  For tech employers, finding the right candidates to fit open positions can be tough. Plenty of technology analysts and education experts have pinned down the problem as a skills gap. So how can employers compensate? The answer may lie in geography. T…
  - 7 days ago, 17 May 13, 4:00pm -
• FreshNeck: Netflix for Menswear Accessories
  FreshNeck is a subscription-based, men’s accessories exchange service. Members can access FreshNeck’s vibrant and versatile stock of neckties, bow ties, pocket squares, and cufflinks based on their tiered subscription, through FreshNeck’s visua…
  - 7 days ago, 17 May 13, 2:00pm -
• MoonClerk Lets Non-Developers Accept Payments through Stripe
  Stripe, a Y Combinator graduate, has become one of the most popular ways for startups to accept payments online. Sites like Reddit, Foursquare, Heroku, and Hipmunk are all up and running with Stripe. But Stripe is a developer product: you have to int…
  - 7 days ago, 17 May 13, 1:00pm -
• Localvore: Shop Local and Support the Maker Community
  Last week was SFMade Week, a seven-day celebration of San Francisco’s local manufacturing sector. Attendees toured factories, donated money, and learned about the retailers who sell locally made products. Another champion of the maker community is…
  - 7 days ago, 17 May 13, 12:00pm -
• 10 Words, 20 Letters: Being Accountable
  I was fortunate early in my career to get some valuable, but simple advice. I don’t remember where it came from – probably from some motivational speaker or maybe the Dale Carnegie Course, since I spent my first few years out of college immersed…
  - 7 days ago, 17 May 13, 10:00am -
• VolunteerMark Makes Managing Volunteers Easy for Nonprofits
  The day-to-day for a nonprofit is busy, to say the least. Keeping track of volunteers and their hours, information, and participation history is time-consuming and often falls to the bottom of the agenda. But Andrew Stanley and Venkat Dulipalli – t…
  - 7 days ago, 17 May 13, 8:00am -
• Opening Soon: HarlemGarage, a Coworking Space in NYC
  To support entrepreneurship in New York, the City and Mayor Michael Bloomberg are getting behind the startup community. In 2010, they launched a $22 million seed-stage fund, as well as the annual NYC Next Idea competition. They’re also sponsoring v…
  - 8 days ago, 16 May 13, 4:00pm -
• Mobile App Fandium Launches as the Social Game Day Destination for Sports
  Launching today, Fandium mobile app for iOS gives users a more social game day experience for professional and collegiate sports, complete with aggregated live content and streaming social feeds. The Chicago-based company aims to be the social destin…
  - 8 days ago, 16 May 13, 2:00pm -
• Apply Now for The FirebrandGroup Fund and Accelerator in Las Vegas
  Starting this summer, the newly created FirebrandGroup will be investing $10,000 to $25,000 in very early-stage startups who go through a new accelerator called Progression Lab. The funding is intended to help new (not serial) entrepreneurs build an…
  - 8 days ago, 16 May 13, 12:00pm -
• Toasts and Technology at the Tech Cocktail Boise Mixer
  Tech Cocktail hosted its fourth Boise Mixer & Startup Showcase on Wednesday, April 17th at Boise State University’s Stueckle Sky Center, along with our exceptional Boise Ambassador Martin Hambalek, IT director at Memjet and Software Alliance vice…
  - 8 days ago, 16 May 13, 10:00am -
• [DC's Hottest Showcasing Startup] BestBequest Wants to Be Your Online Legacy Vault
  What happens to your important documents and information after you die?   The ones that your family and close friends need to access.  It’s an uncomfortable question, but also a topic that needs to be confronted.  Odds are you don’t have a go…
  - 8 days ago, 16 May 13, 9:37am -
• How Stress Works
  This post is part of Tech Cocktail’s “Healthy Entrepreneur” series, bringing you insights on food, exercise, and sleep throughout May. The series is presented by Coromega (more info and a giveaway below). In 2009, Pew reported that 36 percent…
  - 8 days ago, 16 May 13, 8:00am -
• 8 Secrets for Recruiting Top Engineering Talent; YEC Weighs in
  The following answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. In partnership with Citi, the YEC recently launched #StartupLab, a free virtual men…
  - 8 days ago, 16 May 13, 7:00am -
• Get in the Game: Fannect Determines Who the Top Sports Fans Are
  Everybody is a fan in one way or another, and everybody has their favorite sports team. Thanks to season-long data, we are privy to what sports team reigns supreme, but it raises an important question: how do we evaluate the sports fans? In the hopes…
  - 9 days ago, 15 May 13, 4:00pm -
• Reach New, Local Customers with Real-Time Offers on UMeTime
  With the emergence of services like Google Offers and Groupon, businesses big, small, and in between are utilizing digital coupons and offers to increase their sales. Tim Rothwell and Brett Berman, cofounders of UMeTime, observed an overlooked gap in…
  - 9 days ago, 15 May 13, 2:00pm -
• Quarterly: Get Boxes of Startup Inspiration from Tim Ferriss, Chris Guillebeau, & More
  This spring, Tim Ferriss was obsessed with the movie Bigger, Stronger, Faster, the Athletic Greens superfood cocktail, and something called a Buddha Board. And anyone who subscribed to Ferriss on Quarterly got a shipment of this stuff (and more) for…
  - 9 days ago, 15 May 13, 1:00pm -
• WegoWise Raises $3 Million in Funding
  Yesterday, WegoWise raised $3 million in additional funding from Boston Community Capital. The platform helps real estate owners compare energy use and efficiency across their buildings to figure out which ones to upgrade first. WegoWise was started…
  - 9 days ago, 15 May 13, 9:00am -
• Aidin Helps Patients Get Treatment After Hospital Visits
  No one wants to be in a hospital, whether it’s because of your own health or that of a loved one. They are chilling and intimidating. However, they provide a needed and valuable service that we are all thankful for. Mike Galbo is the COO and cofo…
  - 9 days ago, 15 May 13, 8:00am -
• Say Howdy to TechStars Austin
  Today, top startup accelerator TechStars announced the launch of its newest program in Texas: TechStars Austin. Starting in August, a dozen startups will work out of Capital Factory for three months fueled by the traditional TechStars perks, includin…
  - 9 days ago, 15 May 13, 7:00am -
• Tech Cocktail Receives $2.5M Investment from Tony Hsieh’s Downtown Project
  Today, we’re excited to announce that Tech Cocktail has taken a $2.5M investment from Tony Hsieh’s Downtown Project (Hsieh is also the CEO of Zappos.com). Over the next year, Tech Cocktail will focus on deepening the coverage, exposure, and resou…
  - 9 days ago, 15 May 13, 6:51am -
• Shiphawk Offers Headache-Free Shipping
  Do you sell on auction sites like eBay or Amazon? Like money, but hate shipping?  Me too! ShipHawk provides packing, shipping, insurance, and residential or commercial pickup services for shipments of any size.  “You can overnight a letter, or sh…
  - 10 days ago, 14 May 13, 4:00pm -

Pando Daily Headlines

• John Doerr doesn’t think Google Glass is like the Segway
  Once upon a time, John Doerr made a big bet on the Segway. And we all know how that worked. There’s a reason it feels like the only person still using one is Gob Bluth. “The Segway as an investment was a failure. No questions about it,” said Do…
  - 6 hours ago, 24 May 13, 12:01am -
• John Doerr on the great entrepreneurs of the last half-century
  In his nearly 40 years in Silicon Valley, John Doerr has worked alongside many of the greatest entrepreneurs and leaders in history. The first: Former Intel CEO Andy Grove, with whom Doerr worked closely in roles ranging from intern to a leading sale…
  - 6 hours ago, 23 May 13, 11:35pm -
• John Doerr: “The tech industry is doing a good job in politics”
  Kleiner Perkins partner John Doerr, who also co-founded the lobby group TechNet, thinks that Silicon Valley has done a good job of engaging with the political world on immigration reform, and that startups shouldn't think they can get by without thin…
  - 6 hours ago, 23 May 13, 11:33pm -
• John Doerr still sees a future in cleantech
  In 2007, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers investor John Doerr gave an emotional TED Talk about the state of the planet and the need to invest in green technology. Six years later, the state of green technology has changed drastically, causing some to…
  - 7 hours ago, 23 May 13, 11:14pm -
• John Doerr: Microsoft might be the “fifth horseman”
  Microsoft is everyone’s favorite punching bag these days. But there’s at least one person who doesn’t think the once-seemingly invincible tech giant is done: John Doerr. Google chairman Eric Schmidt famously listed “the four horsemen” of th…
  - 7 hours ago, 23 May 13, 10:57pm -

• HP versus the headwinds, part 17
  Hardly a financial quarter passes for Hewlett-Packard when there isn’t an abundant use of the term “headwinds.” It’s a great term for a company in turnaround to use because it refers to innumerable, vague factors that are out of your hands. W…
  - 11 hours ago, 23 May 13, 7:24pm -
• Silicon Beach: The Selena Gomez of SoCal’s tech industry
  Since it’s LA Tech Month here at PandoDaily I thought I’d take the opportunity to spill the unpleasant truth about my adopted hometown. Just like our cousins in Hollywood, where tabloid-friendly party monsters get all the press while hard working…
  - 11 hours ago, 23 May 13, 6:31pm -
• Watch out USA, Canada’s coming: A Google Hangout on immigration reform
  The two-day-long March for Innovation is drawing to a close, and the tech industry – with some celebrity support in the form of Newark Mayor Cory Booker, former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg – has once again argued t…
  - 12 hours ago, 23 May 13, 6:00pm -
• Skillz rides skill-based real money gaming to pass 1M downloads in its first two weeks
  Betting is nearly as old as human civilization itself, as demonstrated by writings and artifacts found in ancient tombs and other archaeological sites. It’s not surprising then, that with the emergence of casual social and mobile gaming, players ha…
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• The bible belt’s “porn problem”: Religious cities watch as much porn as non-religious cities
  Apple’s got a porn problem. Xbox? Huge porn problem. Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest? Just three giant porn problems, basically. And with a name like Wii, you know it’s got a porn problem. And the biggest porn problem of all? Tumblr, of cours…
  - 13 hours ago, 23 May 13, 4:27pm -
• Pixel Press turns your child-like doodles into videogames
  There’s something magical about a child’s imagination. Kids are able to see a stick and create a sword, hide within a blanket fort and take refuge in a castle, or drink tea with impossibly-shaped (and colored) animals and mythical creatures. Life…
  - 14 hours ago, 23 May 13, 3:38pm -
• Fandium raises $1.25 million for sports app that blends storytelling with betting
  The theme of storytelling in 2013 rolls on — now, with the launch of Fandium, its being applied to sports. The company was launched by the founders of horse betting site Youbet.com which sold to Churchill Downs for $127 million in 2009. This week F…
  - 16 hours ago, 23 May 13, 2:04pm -
• Has content discovery reached its logical end?
  Shazam released a new version of its iPad app today, with a smattering of new features and options. One highlight is its geographic tagging that allows you to choose a place on a map and see the most-tagged songs in that region. Another is an improve…
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• YC alum’s new service Loom aims to be photo management for the mobile world
  It’s become a bit of a tradition for developers to try and remake Apple’s core apps. The mail inbox and maps have seen innovation from outside developers. On desktop, Collections has tried to reinvent the Finder, proving that nothing is sacred. H…
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• Appboy expands to help Android developers avoid heartbreak
  It’s been 25 years since Cinderella (the glam metal band, not the Disney princess) crooned “You don’t know what you got ’til it’s gone / I don’t know what it is that I did so wrong.” I suspect that they were singing about heartbreak an…
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• Zippy Picovico attempts to take on Animoto from the mountains of Nepal
  If you thought it was hard doing a startup in Silicon Valley, try Kathmandu. The capital of Nepal struggles through daily electricity cuts, unreliable Internet, and Maoist protests and strikes that cripple the city’s infrastructure. But, yes, even…
  - 20 hours ago, 23 May 13, 10:07am -
• JustFab acquires The Fab Shoes in search of European domination, approaches $250M revenue rate
  One year into its onslaught on Western Europe online women’s fast fashion retailer JustFab has acquired The Fab Shoes (no relation) to accelerate its pace. The move will add 500,000 subscribers in France and Spain to its existing 1.5 million in Ger…
  - 20 hours ago, 23 May 13, 9:47am -
• Rallyverse, a platform that helps brands spread authentic content, releases API
  The first wave of social media marketing consisted of fancy publishing platforms that helped brands push and manage content to Facebook and Twitter. Buddy Media (now part of Salesforce), Wildfire (now part of Google), and Vitrue (now part of Oracle)…
  - 21 hours ago, 23 May 13, 9:19am -
• Original “growth hacker” Sean Ellis’ Qualaroo hacks the marketing conversion funnel
  Sean Ellis knows customer acquisition funnels. The man who coined the term growth hacker was formerly the head of marketing at LogMeIn and Uproar from launch to IPO, and led marketing initially at Dropbox, Lookout, and Xobni. These days, as the found…
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• Nextdoor: “We stopped everything we were doing and trained every engineer on mobile”
  Mobile first? How about mobile finally. Nextdoor has finally released its long-awaited iPhone app– long the most requested feature by users. Considering the trove of venture cash raised and how long Nextdoor has been in business, you can understand…
  - 21 hours ago, 23 May 13, 8:55am -
• Reid Hoffman and Joi Ito’s H2 comes out of stealth
  There are certainly many reflective points we can take from Facebook’s one-year anniversary as a public company this past weekend. But one of the chief among them is the reminder that today Web 2.0 companies are large, global companies. Trying to t…
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• Forty more tickets on sale for our John Doerr PandoMonthly! (And a new venue…)
  
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• Too small to fail: The partnership-driven nature of fintech startups
  In the last quarter-century or so that has made up the digital revolution, one universal axiom has held true: evolve or die. Record labels were too busy suing pirates in the 1990s to adapt their business model to the digital world, newspapers were co…
  - 2 days ago, 22 May 13, 5:43pm -
• Jaron Lanier: Information doesn’t want to be free, and ads are screwed
  Computer scientist and author Jaron Lanier has turned his back on the "information wants to free" meme to which he once subscribed, and he thinks advertising as a business model for media is doomed. It's not just that Craigslist and other Internet bu…
  - 2 days ago, 22 May 13, 4:32pm -
• Data, heart, virality, and leadership: Five tips for today’s entrepreneurial journey
  Digital communications and social media have empowered consumers, whose voices can be heard loud and clear. As has always been the case, the fate of a business is often determined by how well it generates consumer delight. However, these new platform…
  - 2 days ago, 22 May 13, 3:31pm -

All Business Headlines

• Setting Up a Home Office on a Tight Budget
  Personal finance expert and author Linsey Knerl tells AllBusiness.com about the best ways for home-based businesses to save money while building a fully functional home office.
  - 1 hour ago, 24 May 13, 4:45am -
• QUIZ: Are You About to Hire a Customer Service Superstar?
  What should you be looking for when hiring your next customer service representative? Yaniv Masjedi shares four questions he goes through during interviews.
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• Build a Board but Don't Let Investors Boss You Around
  Investor's money often comes with strings attached. When an investor asks for a seat on your board of directors, will you be ready? Here's how to say yes -- gracefully and carefully!
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• Pros and Cons of the Big Home Page Header
  Big home page headers can annoy rather than impress visitors. Here are a few of the pitfalls, along with ways to get around them.
  - 1 hour ago, 24 May 13, 4:45am -
• 10 Ways to Motivate Your Employees on the Cheap
  How can you keep employees working at peak efficiency when your small business doesn't have the cash to hand out raises? Try these 10 creative tactics.
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• How Much Did That Sales Lead Cost You? Be Honest Now!
  It is essential to invest some time analyzing which lead generation initiatives worked well in the past, why they worked well, and what improvements can be made to optimize their effectiveness.
  - 1 hour ago, 24 May 13, 4:45am -
• Loan Application Lessons: Always Sweat the Details
  No matter how long someone has worked for you or how competent they are, everyone makes mistakes. When it comes to loan applications, make sure someone else's mistake doesn't cost you or your company.
  - 1 hour ago, 24 May 13, 4:45am -
• New Home Office Deduction Loopholes You Need to Know for 2013
  Gone are the days when home office deductions were an IRS "red flag." In fact, the IRS has actually made it easier than ever for some taxpayers to claim home office deductions.
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• Budgeting for an Irregular Personal Income
  AllBusiness.com's Chris Bjorklund talks with personal finance expert J.D. Roth, founder of GetRichSlowly.org, about smart ways to manage fluctuating personal income.
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• The Ultimate CEO Workout
  Do you wish you had the muscle to match your brains? Don't succumb to the common exercise myth that you have to set up a sleeping bag in the gym to get the body you want!
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• New Employee? Use the New I-9 Form
  The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) issued a new Form I-9 with a requirement for use by employers beginning May 9, 2013. Get answers to common questions about this form.
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• Importance of Choosing the Right Business Structure
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• Disaster in Japan an Important Reminder for Us Here at Home
  We should use it as a reminder to do all we can to protect ourselves and our businesses should a similar disaster strike near where we live.
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• What Is PR? A Big List of Tactics Pros Use
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• 3 Steps to Challenge & Change Lender Assumptions About Your Business
  Loan decisions are made on assumptions. Will you pay the loan? How? How does the lender know? If your business was challenged during the recession, take these steps to challenge and change the lender's assumptions that your business is (still) troubl…
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• Use TweetDeck to Grow Your Business in 10 Easy Steps
  TweetDeck is packed with features and tricks capable of turning you from a simple tweeter into a power user. Learn how to get more out of Twitter with this powerful social media tool.
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• How Franchising Can Help You Expand Your Business, Recession or Not
  Franchising attorney Andrew Caffey describes which types of businesses should consider franchising and explains what is involved in becoming a franchisor.
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• 15 Ways to Stay Healthy While Working Insane Startup Hours
  Working at a startup is awesome ... and utterly exhausting. We asked 15 successful entrepreneurs to share their best tips for staying healthy in the midst of a crazy schedule.
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• How to Reduce Your Debt and Be Happier
  Adam Baker, founder of the personal finance blog "Man vs. Debt," talks about the numerous benefits of eliminating consumer debt, credit cards, and all the stuff you don't really need.
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Growthology

• Self-Employment Earnings Puzzle
  I have been reading "The Entrepreneurial Earnings Puzzle: Mismeasurement or Real?" a working paper by Thomas Åstebro and Jing Chen, that looks at the research literature on entrepreneurs' earnings (paper available here). See the paper for a literatu…
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• What’s the Best Way to Hire Employees?
  New research by Stephen V. Burks, Bo Cowgill, Mitchell Hoffman, and Michael Gene Housman looks at the performance of employees hired as a result of a referral vs. those hired from other sources. They knew from previous research that referred employee…
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• Immobility and Freelancing
  I'm trying to square two seemingly contradictory trends. First, as we've known for several years, geographic mobility in the United States is today half of what it once was. This applies to interstate, intrastate, and intra-county moves. At the same.…
  - 10 days ago, 14 May 13, 11:18am -
• Signaling and Investor Preferences
  I mentioned last week a paper by Jing Chen on serial small business owners. From the same special issue of the Journal of Economics & Management Strategy is another paper, "Show Me the Right Stuff: Signals for High-Tech Startups" by...
  - 29 days ago, 25 Apr 13, 3:33pm -
• Clusters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
  The title is from a new paper by Aaron Chatterji, Edward Glaeser, William Kerr, available here, about local entrepreneurship (disclosure: the Kauffman Foundation supported the conference at which this paper was presented). When I talk to entrepreneur…
  - 29 days ago, 25 Apr 13, 2:00pm -
• Serial Small Business Ownership
  Serial entrepreneurs generally do better with their subsequent businesses than first-time entrepreneurs do with their first business.This has led to the belief that serial entrepreneurs' previous business experience sets them up for greater success w…
  - 36 days ago, 18 Apr 13, 3:10pm -
• Best Worst Startup Ideas
  I have tended to stay away from reposting from other blogs so I don't clog up people's feeds with spam, but Tyler Cowen has pointed out something irresistible. From Quora, the most ridiculous startup ideas that have succeeded: Facebook -...
  - 37 days ago, 17 Apr 13, 10:43am -
• Is starting a business in your home area a good thing?
  The Kauffman Foundation is interested in how geography affects entrepreneurs these days, so when I came across a paper about entrepreneurs’ location choice, it piqued my interest. “Home sweet home: Entrepreneurs' location choices and the perfor…
  - 43 days ago, 11 Apr 13, 12:30pm -
• Search Engine Marketing - Worth It?
  I am reading a very interesting paper by Thomas Blake, Chris Nosko, and Steven Tadelis about eBay and search engine marketing. They find through an experimental design that there is virtually no significant effect on eBay sales when they stop...
  - 43 days ago, 11 Apr 13, 8:53am -
• This Week: Economic Bloggers Forum 2013
  On this Friday, April 11, Brad DeLong will be hosting the 5th Annual Economics Bloggers Forum here at the Kauffman Foundation. The event will be livestreamed here: http://new.livestream.com/kauffmanfoundation/ebf2013. Last year, audience members and…
  - 45 days ago, 9 Apr 13, 1:45pm -

• Lessons for Entrepreneurs from Crowdfunding Redux
  A couple of weeks ago, Mindee Forman highlighted some key findings from Ethan Mollick's research on crowdfunding. I'm seeing more and more papers crop up on this topic, including what I will be highlighting today, "Crowdfunding Creative Ideas: The Dy…
  - 57 days ago, 28 Mar 13, 5:01pm -
• Lessons for Entrepreneurs from Crowdfunding
  There is a lot of buzz out there these days about crowdfunding. As Kauffman Dissertation Fellow Ethan Mollick at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School puts it, "Crowdfunding has been drawing substantial attention from policy makers, manag…
  - 71 days ago, 14 Mar 13, 10:25am -
• Preliminary Look at 1 Million Cups
  Yasuyuki Motoyama and I have a paper out today about 1 Million Cups (1MC), a program of Kauffman Labs for Enterprise Creation. 1MC brings together entrepreneurs weekly on Wednesday mornings--two startups talk about their businesses for about six minu…
  - 72 days ago, 13 Mar 13, 10:33am -
• Venture Capitalists Prefer Vegetables
  Very quickly before I start, I want to point out this research would conceivably extend to all investors that take a sizable chunk of preferred stock in a startup, not just venture capitalist (my opinion, not stated by the authors)....
  - 77 days ago, 7 Mar 13, 5:00pm -
• LegalZoom and Kauffman Annual Survey
  In 2012, the Kauffman Foundation partnered with LegalZoom to conduct a survey series of new business owners in an effort to establish a broader range of metrics than are available in more traditional data sets. Q1-Q4 saw confidence surveys that...
  - 84 days ago, 1 Mar 13, 11:35am -
• Entrepreneurs Matter to Firm Growth
  How much do individual entrepreneurs really matter to their firm’s performance? We intuitively suspect and anecdotally hear about how hugely important the individual entrepreneur is to a firm. A working paper by Sascha O. Becker and Hans K. Hvide,…
  - 85 days ago, 28 Feb 13, 1:22pm -
• Give Me Your Entrepreneurs, Your Innovators
  Dane and I have a policy brief out today that looks at a few possible scenarios of job creation that could result from a startup visa (paper is here; press release summary is here). The Startup Act 3.0 bill proposes...
  - 86 days ago, 27 Feb 13, 7:24am -

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