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The beta launch is a software proving ground. Everyone has an idea for the next Facebook, Google, or Angry Birds, but what separates the cream from the crop is a successful beta test. If your software is glitchy with your five-man development team testing...
With the holidays coming to a close and 2014 beginning, many take this time to reflect on the past year and develop plans for improvement in the year to come. While others are setting goals to spend more time with family and live a...
Does your company boast a top-notch internship program? If not, it may be time to toss your humdrum recruiting tactics out of the nearest window. With 92 percent of U.S. companies now using social media for recruitment, it’s time for your company to step...
Over ten years ago, websites were cutting edge. Businesses began to realize that they needed their own Internet presence to remain relevant. Some people termed it the Dot-com Boom, and it eventually led to an age where websites are a given and even individual...
An increasing number of college students are starting careers as entrepreneurs years before they graduate into the “real world.” In fact, an average of 65 percent of students participating in the Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship certification program (rated the top ...
I, like every entrepreneur, have a long list of business ideas just waiting to be turned into companies. And at one point, I, like every entrepreneur, had no clue how to start figuring out if any of my ideas were worth working on. Thankfully,...
Reading the news may give you the feeling U.S. politics is in a pretty despairing place — there’s high national and student debt, frequent bipartisan gridlock, and steady unemployment. But there’s also hope for increasing civic engagement — and it’s being ...
For Jason Fried, the founder of 37signals, virality is a slow and natural process. And patience to understand this can yield success, he told the audience at Tech Cocktail Sessions in Chicago on Wednesday. He started 37signals in 1999 as a web design company....
It's incredibly easy in a startup to just keep working, working, working. Days turn into nights and late nights turn into weekends. The to-do list and the queue of emails in the inbox just get longer the more time you spend with them. If...
Thinking of ignoring the madness around Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday? Think again. According to New York Business Journal, consumers spent a whopping $5.5 billion during 2012's Small Business Saturday. This year, smart small business owners should begin ...
Don’t have time to read? Here’s a quick but comprehensive summary of Noam Wasserman’s “The Founder’s Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup,” released March 31, 2013, by Princeton University Press. Who should read this: Anyone ...
When you think about startups, entrepreneurship, and technology, typically you think of Silicon Valley (“The Valley”), New York City, DC, Austin, and other major cities and towns. However, you are missing one town that is the best kept secret in America: Blacksburg, VA. ...
Say, you’re watching a movie online. Or a music video. Or a professional sports game. Whatever. What if you could instantly find out more information about every product you see in the video? What if, with a single click of a button or a...
You spend weeks, months, or even years of your life building a product that flops. No one wants it; no one’s buying it. It’s every startup's worst nightmare. When you’re building a product for a client, it takes a lot of work to understand...
If you’re reading this, you are likely a startup enthusiast. You probably believe startups are the future and you put your money where your mouth is. I can tell by how you support innovative technologies on KickStarter or how you are a diehard promoter...