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Don’t Let A Tech Bottleneck Kill Your Startup

During the recession, everyone was fretting over jobs, and it revealed an interesting conundrum in the US job market, namely that there are plenty of jobs, just not enough skilled people to fill them, especially in the technology sector. This critical shortage has lead to heavy demand for key skills…

Collaboration Feel Laborious? Try Kollaborate

It would be so much easier if we could just see one another! Who’s ever worked on a project without thinking this at some point? Despite all the tools at our disposal, 93% of our communication is done visually. That’s why, with one click, Kollaborate allows teams to instantly work together in HD video, and…

15 Inexpensive Ideas For Marketing Your New Product

While some bloggers would jump at the chance to test out and review your product, others are just inundated, and don’t have the time to try your product OR write up a review. Make their jobs easy. Pinpoint the top bloggers in your industry and offer to write up a guest post that would benefit their reader…

Hump Day How-Tos: Virgin’s Inflight Flirting

Last week I introduced you guys to TravelSexLife, which is an awesome new blog that takes two things most people dig (travel and sex) and combines them in a smart, dynamic way. This week I have another sex+travel feature for you, but it’s notably lower-brow and arguably more controversial. Introducing…

8 Traits Top Employees Share

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Companies of all shapes and sizes are now facing higher levels of uncertainty and considerably fewer resources to spend on even top-priority initiatives. The result has been a growing significance of a certain type of employee: dynamic, consistently effective, endlessly useful, and enjoyable to work with…

Justin Spring, Co-Founder, BringShare.com And Adept Marketing

What’s the single best piece of business advice that helped shape who you are as an entrepreneur today, and why? “Every adversity, every failure, every heartbreak, carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.” – Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich. I first read TGR while struggling to build…

Bringing Order To Startup Chaos – How To Manage Autonomy

A challenge faced by many startup companies is the need achieve multiple goals simultaneously and efficiently. Startups also have the added obstacle of working in small teams and with smaller budgets, making it absolutely critical to foster autonomy among team members to maximize the utility of each…

11 Ways To Collect Customer Feedback

The best way to get first-hand customer feedback is to step into the shoes of the customer. Even if you’re selling a product of which you’re not typically a user (e.g., a man selling women’s handbags), you’ll learn a ton from mimicking the steps that a typical customer would take in learning about…

How Do You Make Time For Social Media?

Writing 140-character tweets or replying to a Facebook comment takes minutes – entrepreneurs waste hours on social media when they’re reading, not engaging. Twitter and Facebook were designed to suck you in to click on photo albums, read blog posts, and watch videos, but none of these activities grow…

Need A Home For Your Startup Business? Discover The Benefits Of Serviced Offices

If you’re an entrepreneur or the head of a startup business, you face a lot of challenges – but one of the hardest things to master is the day-to-day operations of an office. Your business needs a lot of things, especially in the beginning, and all of those things cost money (which is probably tight)…

The Real Version Of The Incredibles: Interview With Emily Holdman, Co-founder Of The Remarkables

If ever there’s a run on the inspiration market, smart money will go to The Remarkables organization. Brilliant, generous people with diverse skills and experience, eager to connect to communities and enliven our most pressing discussions – what’s not to love? Taking advantage of video-streaming technology…

8 Tips To Franchise Your Small Business

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If you have a small business that can be easily replicated, then franchising may be one of the best ways to expand it at a fast pace. And if you tackle it the right way, you can certainly pump up your profitability. Here are eight tips to help you through the transition. Get organized. Think through the…

3 Best Books On Leadership Every Startup Founder Needs to Read

Strong leadership is extraordinary, isn’t it? Though everyone seems to define excellence in leadership a bit differently from the rest, there is one thing that all excellent leaders seem to agree upon: Leadership requires patience, passion, persistence, and a clear vision of The Big Picture. There are…

Clothes Make The Man, Font Makes The Brand. FontPro Gives Designers A Powerful Typeface Tool

If you think font is of minor business concern, try to imagine Pinterest written without cursive lettering or The New York Times printed in an airbrushed-style script. Font is a design element that distinguishes brands and helps render a company unforgettable. Here to make navigating the sea of fonts…

Calling All Young Entrepreneurs: 4 Tech Trends You Need To Embrace To Succeed

Young entrepreneurs today are full of energy, ready to attack the world of commerce on all fronts. Those that acknowledge their lack of experience are wise to seek out the guidance of a mentor. The general advice is always to stay flexible by adapting to changing market conditions. When the wave comes…

Minimizing New Startup Costs (5 Easy Methods)

Keeping the costs of starting a business down doesn’t require a lot of effort. Instead, entrepreneurs are better served by being aware of the multitude of cost cutting opportunities available at every step of the startup process. Below are 5 easy methods to minimize your new startup costs…

Duolingo Translates The Web While Teaching You Spanish

Everybody knows Captcha and reCaptcha, the tools invented by Luis von Ahn that allow websites to distinguish a user from an Internet bot and users to translate a wide digital library of scanned materials . The famous Luis von Ahn is now the CEO of Duolingo, a free translation tool on the Internet

4 Ways To Sell More Than The Competition

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Despite its name, the performance marketing industry – i.e., search engine optimization (SEO), pay-per-click marketing (PPC) and affiliate marketing – is ripe for bad behavior. In fact, a few years ago, I started to notice that potential clients of mine were having the same kind of problems over and over…

Friday Tech Top 10 – Money, Sex, And Travel
(Sounds Like A Party To Me!)

Hello weekend warriors! If you missed last week’s top ten, I sincerely apologize. Turns out, it was a busy week of hard-hitting investigative journalism with little time to do fun stuff like the tech top ten. OK fine, I was just being lazy. Guilty as charged. But I got your back this week. Check it…

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