KillerStartups

Selling Ice To Eskimos: How Two Young College Kids Made A Sitcom Premise Into Multi-Million Dollar Web Development Software

The creation and evolution of Codecademy reads like a sitcom. Two guys, smart, young, and in their final years of college at an Ivy League school become close friends. One, Zach Sims, is a people-person, gregarious, friendly, confident and smart. The other, Ryan Bubinski, is a life-long computer gee…

Instagram And The Pet Rock: Simple Ideas That Grossed Millions And The People Who Believed In Them

You know Instagram. It’s that web service that allows you to post pictures and hashtags that has taken the internet by storm. It is simple and nostalgic, invoking memories of bulletin boards at bars covered by Polaroids. It allows you to share an instant in time quickly with a large group of people….

5 Ways to Optimize your Mobile SEO

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) has traditionally been applied to desktop searches and websites. However, booming smart phone sales have led to “mobile search” being more than half of local search traffic today! What not everybody realizes is that Google provides different search engine results…

How To Make Friends, Influence People, And Boost Sales In 20 Minutes A Day

Lead generation and sales prospecting got you down? What if you could make friends, influence people’s opinion about your product or company, and boost sales in just 20 minutes a day? (No, this isn’t an infomercial, although I realize that intro may have sounded like one.)

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Is The New Marketing Dashboard From Yahoo Small Business The Answer?

I had no idea until recently that Yahoo even had a “Small Business” product. Now, I’m not always up-to-date on each and every app and product available to small business owners, (the internet is a big place after all), but with a company as large as Yahoo, I’m a bit surprised that I hadn’t heard…

Reasons Your Startup Can Fail

The entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well and no matter what part of the globe you are in people are establishing businesses and startups at every opportunity. In the US hundreds of thousands of business and startups are established every year. These large numbers unfortunately come with a high n…

Making Sure We Don’t Forget Nature With Project Noah

The last twenty years have seen an explosion of technology that is hard to ignore. In our haste to adopt these tools we tend to overlook who and what we are and where we all live. We are slowly forgetting the outside world and choosing the screen on our monitors as the portal to the world outside of…

Ranking Deals With Dealupa

Deal aggregator sites are popping up all over the place and finding the deal you really want is not as easy as they make it seem. The technology for categorizing the deals and making them easily available for search has not been perfected. This means you have to scroll through countless deals before…

Using Technology To Eliminate Maternal And Infant Mortality

Technology is responsible for the level of comfort, convenience and cooperation we enjoy with each other but it is not available everywhere. In countries where there is poor infrastructure the available technology has to be used to provide innovative ways to address many of the debilitating issues t…

Budget Cuts? Be Careful What You Sacrifice

With the Economy down and budget cuts on the rise, customer service is often first to be cut. When money gets tight, telephone operators are replaced with voice recordings, service staff is laid off, and customers suffer the consequences. Many business owners neglect to see the importance of gre…

What’s In A Name? A Lot If You Are A Startup

A rose would smell just as sweet with any other name but if you are a startup, the wrong name can put people off. The important thing to remember about the name of your startup is it is the first thing everyone sees about your startup or hears if you are pitching your company. The right name is the …

Tell The Truth: Because Eventually You Will Be Found Out

In the words of William Shakespeare, “no legacy is so rich as honesty,” and if you are starting a business, the legacy of honesty you leave behind will be remembered more than other accomplishments. The first word used to describe business people is their honesty or lack thereof and that should…

Tapping Into LinkedIn’s Potential: 5 Features You Probably Didn’t Know About

When you hear “LinkedIn” what do you think? Resume-uploading and business-connecting social media, right? But, according to co-founder Reid Hoffman, users are not getting everything they potentially can out of the site. In a recent profile by Wired, Reid says, “People don’t think of it as a pla…

Angela Benton Wants To Change The Face Of The Tech World With NewME Accelerator

When you hear “startup company” and picture the team behind it, what do they look like? Probably something like the original Facebook group: white, young, and male. That’s what the vast majority of startup teams look like these days. The tech industry is only 25% female and 1.5% African-Amer…

How To Get Through To Anyone – The Art Of Persuasion

At some point in time we have all experienced a person we just can’t seem to get through no matter what we do. The conclusion we derive about these types of people is probably not fit to print but one thing we do know is they exist. Mark Goulston M.D believes it is possible to get through to absol…

The Value Of Boosting Your Pinfluence

The number of social media sites is growing daily but not all of them have the same impact as the top tier sites. Since it was first introduced two years ago, Pinterest has captured the number three position with an impressive 50 % gain from January to February.

Recent Experian report…

Understanding Your Startup With The Right Analysis

If you had a nickel for every time you heard a business person say “if I had known…” well you know the rest. Before the advent of computers and the internet a lot of decisions were made on experience, gut feeling or hunch. If you were lucky it worked out ok and if it didn’t you didn’t make…

Financing Your Startup With Convertible Note Seed

If you don’t have a rich uncle who is willing to finance your startup take a deep breath and get ready to make your pitch to countless investors in the hopes of finding one that will take a chance on you. Getting funding is part of the startup process that people dread most because it is time co…

Is Crowdfunding An Option?

So you think or even better you know you have the next great idea but Venture capital firms are not giving you the time of day. Don’t fret because you can fund that great idea using alternative methods and make those large VC firms lament the day they turned you down. VC is a $40 billion per year i…

Planting The Seed Of Entrepreneurial Spirit In Teenagers

Convincing a teenager to be an entrepreneur sounds like a difficult proposition but people like Mark Zuckerburg the founder of Facebook are inspiring teens to go after their dreams and not let age be a factor. The beauty of introducing a teenager to entrepreneurship is they don’t see limitations to …

Blueprint For A Successful Startup

The dream for your startup may have been conceived in a college dorm or while surfing online. Turning that dream into a successful startup is very possible but you have to have a certain set of skills or surround yourself with people who have them. If you have a great idea, you will soon realize th…

Creating A Winning Information Product

How much information do you want about the product that you are trying to buy? This of course depends on who you are and what you’re buying. Some customers want the nuts and bolts while others only care that it works when they need it to work. This lets you know you can’t just create one informati…

Bootstrapping PR

If you’re a startup entrepreneur who’s considering hiring PR, but is working with a less-than-Gates budget, chances are you are savvy enough to turn on the computer and start the PR reach, DIY style. Yes, PR pros have many industry contacts and resources, but with the new media landscape affordi…

The Art Of Listening – Controlling How You React By Listening

There is an old proverb that says “listening looks easy but it is not simple.” It takes a considerable amount of skill to truly listen and react or not react accordingly. As any experienced manager will tell you it is achieved through the school of hard knocks because even the best personal deve…

Can You Make Money With Your Old Podcasts?

If there is one thing that social media has taught us is building relationships creates a long lasting customer base. These relationships are built on interaction and podcasts give you the opportunity to say what you want directly to your customers. Creating podcasts is a very easy process but creat…

Securing Online Transactions With Escrow.com

Online sales transactions can be a risky proposition if you’re not dealing with an established company. Every time you give out your financial information to someone you do not know you run a very high risk of being defrauded. If you are a small startup the majority of your transactions are probably…

Hire A-Players For Your Startup

Large corporations go out of their way to hire headhunters to look for the best available talent for their company. They know hiring the best person makes the company better, period. As a startup you might not be able to afford A-Players for your company but you have qualities that a big conglomer…

Digestible Websites And Second Dates

Information. We absorb it over breakfast, inhale it during lunch, and devour it for dinner. By the time we’ve gotten to dessert, we simply cannot digest anymore. The next morning you´ll ask yourself, ¨What did I eat yesterday?¨then shrug, and continue on with your daily diet of (mostly) useless i…

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