Entries Tagged as 'entrepreneurship'

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

Lessons Learned: Video update on the Startup Visa Act

The Startup Visa Act continues to gain momentum on Capitol Hill, thanks to grassroots support of all of you. Without lobbyists or PACs, we’re getting the word out in DC and nationwide that we have an opportunity to act – this year – to create jobs right here in America by supporting entrepreneurship and innovation. [...]

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

Pomplamoose: Making A Living On YouTube : NPR

via npr.org ” The group has made no hard copies of its albums; no CDs have been printed. Nevertheless, they make their living on sales, having sold about 100,000 songs last year. Pomplamoose is one of the first bands to be invited into YouTube’s Musicians Wanted program, which is an ad-revenue sharing program. YouTube places [...]

Monday, April 12th, 2010

Buy an ad on the Glenn Beck Show for $100

Deciding to create an ad for absolutely nothing, along with a website to go along with that ad, they were able to buy space for $100 in the wee hours of the morning during repeats of The Glenn Beck Show. And they got over 1,000 people to go to this completely made-up website that was [...]

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

Panic Blog » The Panic Status Board

via panic.com “This is good. But a lot of things happening mean a high chance that I, the man who lives and breathes Panic and has a giant status board in my head, might not properly explain everything to everyone. Steve and I realized it was high time we made this Cabel Status Board public… [...]

Monday, March 1st, 2010

Can Entrepreneurs Be Made?

via techcrunch.com “Entrepreneurs aren’t born, they’re made. And they aren’t anything like you think they are. My team surveyed 549 successful entrepreneurs. We found that the majority didn’t have entrepreneurial parents. They didn’t even have entrepreneurial aspirations while going to school. They simply got tired of working for others, had a great idea they wanted [...]

Friday, February 5th, 2010

What *really* motivates workers?: – Barking up the wrong tree

Ask leaders what they think makes employees enthusiastic about work, and they’ll tell you in no uncertain terms. In a recent survey we invited more than 600 managers from dozens of companies to rank the impact on employee motivation and emotions of five workplace factors commonly considered significant: recognition, incentives, interpersonal support, support for making [...]

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

i/o Ventures – A Work/Cafe Incubator Launches In San Francisco

via techcrunch.com A small group of high profile startup executives are preparing to launch their next venture – a workspace incubator and angel investment fund called i/o ventures that aims to help new startups get a start with some initial capital and a cool place to work. The company is located in San Francisco. Posted [...]

Sunday, March 8th, 2009

Your Cool Technology Is Worthless If You Don’t Know How To Sell

Reichart intereviewed on Mixergy