Posts Tagged ‘startups’

Online course platform Udemy has put together a great infographic with social media marketing tips to teach startups how to leverage social media to get the word out. Check it out after the jump.

Join Baratunde Thurston (left), The Onion’s Director of Digital and author of How to Be Black, for an entertaining look at creative social media campaigns in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting February 16. Other speakers include Morin Oluwole (Facebook), Tim Devane (bitly), and SocialTimes' writer Devon Glenn.   Register now.

Alon Nir, founder of Tweet Your Prayers @TheKotel shares 5 tips for the anti-startup that just may inspire you to take a step back and change the way you’re running your startup.

Committed entrepreneurs are always strategizing about their startups. Even in their sleep. They plan the startup’s journey, their exit, and most things in between. Something that is often missed, but also deserves thought and strategy, is the startup’s launch. How a startup launches can pave the way for its future success or failure. The following [...]

The latest pitching season has just ended at KAYWEB Angels, during which we invited approximately 30 of 200-plus funding applicants to present their ideas in person. We allowed these individuals and groups 20 minutes to go through their prepared presentations, before firing away with questions from our board members for another 30-40 minutes. While we [...]

My team of angel investors just made our latest series of investments. We read over 200 submitted applications, witnessed over 20 pitches in person, and made three investments in web and mobile startups which we announced this week. Every investor will tell you ‘the entrepreneur’ is a key component of any investment decision they make. [...]

A key lesson for web startups has emerged from the recent bad press and hostility directed at the online movie rentals powerhouse, Netflix. Netflix provides on-demand movies and shows streamed online to subscribers, as well as a mail-order DVDs delivered by post at a flat rate to customers. The company has over 24 million subscribers [...]

When planning an online or mobile business, founders and co-founders must begin discussing ‘location’ as soon as possible. By location, I particularly refer to the launch and base location(s) of your online or mobile business. The following are four pointers I suggest you to consider in your startup location discussion: Firstly, is where you live [...]

A good entrepreneur is always an optimist by nature. He or she must also be a realist, which is not always a characteristic that comes naturally to us entrepreneurs.

I was invited to speak to a class of entrepreneurs of the Kauffman Foundation FastTrac program at the SUNY Levin Institute in New York City this month. The topic was ‘the most important lesson I have learnt as an entrepreneur’. My answer was the lesson to ‘know my market’ before launching a venture. This simple [...]

When asked in a recent interview with YoungEntrepreneur.com for a piece of advice for young entrepreneurs, I answered “dream big but act lean”. This is critical advice. Wikipedia defines an entrepreneur as “a person who has possession of a new enterprise, venture or idea and is accountable for the inherent risks and the outcome”. An [...]