Creative ideas. You can't just let them float around your startup, like clouds in the sky. They'll end up blocking the sun and doing you no good! So, how do you handle them? Check the quote below and find video on the link, including "What if Microsoft designed the Ipod packaging?&q...
Do you have an idea and need an audience? The SEBIO Investor Forum is "the Southeast region's premier life sciences venture capital conference, connecting emerging life science companies with potential investors in a forum that provides meaningful networking opportunities." Application dea...
Have you invented something? Besides a new way to get out of washing the dishes, I mean. Thinking of inventing something? If so, you need to be at the The Arkansas Inventors Network, a local support group that helps inventors and entrepreneurs get their new products and ideas to market. The group me...
Here's the scenario: you own a small business and want to get the word out. You've heard all the chatter about "social networks" and you're wondering if they can help you bring customers into your business. There are plenty of examples of why the the answer to your question is "yes&qu...
A shimmer of sunlight has penetrated the derecho of economic doom and gloom that seems to permeate, well, everything. For entrepreneurs, anyway. Early-stage startups, specifically.According to numbers from The Deal, the number of funds backing early-stage startups is growing. Something about VCs con...
Xconomy passes on some advice for startups trying to navigate the current economic gloom:Outwit, Outplay, Outlast.
Serial entrepreneurs generally may be more attractive to VCs, but that doesn't mean first-timers won't get asked to dance.Bernard Lunn chronicles the ups and downs of first-time entrepreneurdom. Here's an excerpt:As a first-time entrepreneur, you offer investors a trade-off. You will give them less...
So, you've got your business up and running. What's next? The buzzword is always "innovate", but that doesn't mean you have to move mountains. In fact, just the opposite can be true. Business Week magazine tackled that issue with an article arguing that baby steps might be the smart...
A manned mission to Mars is no longer the stuff of Ray Bradbury science fiction. Placing men on the surface of Mars -- OK, and women, too, geesh -- and maintaining a presence there are things old sci-fi geeks may actually live to see. Well, our kids anyway.And what might those Mars astronauts be mun...
Startups are always looking for inexpensive (free) programs to help increase efficiency and productivity in the office. Chances are that endless search has occupied far too many of your hours! After all of that searching, Google's suite of free office products might very well form the core of your o...
