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Entrepreneur Tips: Yonatan Maor, Shaker

by Andy Freeberg, September 19, 2011 | Comments

	“First and Foremost, Build the Right Team” Yonatan Maor is the CEO and Co-Founder of Shaker, whose Facebook app for interacting and meeting in virtual rooms (and bars) made them the winner of the TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2011 Startup Battlefield. In an interview at the Disrupt conference, Maor told us his thoughts on what it takes to build a startup. Shaker's story begins in Tel Aviv, Israel ...
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Entrepreneur Tips: Finding the right people

by Andy Freeberg, September 1, 2011 | Comments

Michael Levinson of oDesk says, 'Try people out for a period of time'

Hiring - one thing we hear time and again - is among the most difficult and critical tasks for building a successful startup. Michael Levinson is Vice President of Product at oDesk, a global employment platform that enables employers to hire, manage and pay an online workforce. His experience working for a startup that is built around the human resources ...

HP Startup Story: History & Lessons of Angry Birds

by Andy Freeberg, August 30, 2011 | Comments

Interview With Peter Vesterbacka, “Mighty Eagle” of Rovio Mobile Ltd.

Founded in 2003, Rovio Mobile Ltd., like many startups, underwent several years of uncertainty and nearly went under before their eventual rise to mobile gaming eminence with the worldwide phenomenon Angry Birds. Born out of a mobile game development competition sponsored by HP, the story of Rovio provides one case study of the role HP has played with successful startups. ...

“Persistence & Commitment Are Key”

by Andy Freeberg, August 22, 2011 | Comments

Tips for Entrepreneurs: Shalu Attri, GOAQUÍ

Shalu Attri is a first-time founder who recently launched GOAQUÍ, a social platform for travelers that enables them to share travel experiences and draw inspiration from fellow travelers about possible future destinations. Attri actually reached out to HP Startup Central via Twitter and we met up with her at TiEcon 2011 where she gave us her take on getting her ...

“If You Have an Idea, Get Started”

by Andy Freeberg, August 17, 2011 | Comments

Victoria Ransom - Tips for Entrepreneurs

Wildfire Interactive is an icon of a successful startup. Since founding in 2009, the company with its software platform for streamlining social media promotion campaigns, have grown to more than a hundred employees in four offices worldwide and have only taken $4 million in venture capital, most of which is unspent as they now have self-sustaining profits. Speaking to us ...

Entrepreneur tips: Focus on changing the world

by Andy Freeberg, August 1, 2011 | Comments

Seria entrepreneur Jostein Svendsen in HP Startup Central's Tips for Entrepreneurs

Jostein Svendsen is a successful serial entrepreneur from Europe and the founder of six companies that range in industries including digital media, digital financial services, and digital commerce. Most recently, Svendsen founded Creaza, a company developing services that enable users to collaboratively edit, stream, share and store user-generated video from the cloud. With a number of companies already under his ...

Dave Kresse: “You never have a dull day”

by Andy Freeberg, July 12, 2011 | Comments

	Tips for entrepreneurs Dave Kresse, CEO of Mu Dynamics, a leader in testing and validating application-aware networks, believes that part of the actual allure of working at a small company is the roller coaster ride of emotion that they take you on. No stranger to the world of startups, Dave has worked at companies that include NetApp, Leapfrog Enterprises, and PowerSchool, Inc. In ...
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"A Structured Approach to Cleantech Development"

by Andy Freeberg, June 29, 2011 | Comments

John Davison - Tips for Entrepreneurs

John Davison is a Global Accounts Business Analyst at HP and the San Francisco Metro Director of the Cleantech Open, the largest business competition for early stage companies in the cleantech sector. In this HP Startup Central Tips for Entrepreneurs interview, "A Structured Approach to Cleantech Development," Davison provides his insights on what makes the cleantech sector unique for startups ...

Steve Case: “The Three ‘P’s”

by Andy Freeberg, June 23, 2011 | Comments

	Tips for entrepreneurs Steve Case is certainly most well known as one of the co-founders of AOL, but these days, as the Chairman of the Case Foundation, the Startup America Partnership and Revolution LLC, he now invests his time, money and passion into a myriad of innovative enterprises. On May 13, Case gave a keynote to kick off TiEcon 2011, The World’s Largest ...
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Delip Andra: “Solving a Problem”

by Andy Freeberg, June 22, 2011 | Comments

	Tips for Entrepreneurs Delip Andra is the founder and CEO of Twezr, developers of a popular personal organizer app for e-mail and social networks by the same name. Andra is an accomplished entrepreneur and in this HP Startup Central Tips for Entrepreneurs episode “Solving a Problem,” he shares practical tips on getting started and being successful. Andra’s years of experience have ...
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Tips for Entrepreneurs: Scott K. Curry

by Andy Freeberg, June 13, 2011 | Comments

	“If They Tell You No, Go Do It” Scott K. Curry is Founder and CEO of Bizznesscard, an online marketing solution for small businesses, and a highly determined entrepreneur. Undaunted by negative feedback, Curry encourages other would-be founders, “If they tell you no, go do it…. As soon as someone tells me I can’t do it, I won’t only do it, I’ll do it a hundred times better ...
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Karen Appleton - "Explore Many Channels"

by Andy Freeberg, May 11, 2011 | Comments

Tips for Entrepreneurs

Karen Appleton is the Vice President of Business Development at Box.net as well as a contributor for the Huffington Post's business page and member of the HP Startup Central Advisory Board. In this video from the Tips for Entrepreneurs series, Appleton notes how difficult it can be for startups to stand out in today's dynamic marketplace. Providing the relationship between ...

Guy Kawasaki: Get it out there & enchant

by Andy Freeberg, April 30, 2011 | Comments

HP Startup Central Tips for Entrepreneurs

For Guy Kawasaki, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist, co-founder of Alltop.com and author of the recent New York Times bestseller, Enchantment: "The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions, getting people to embrace something new and different requires both charm and realism." HP Startup Central’s new installment of Tips for Entrepreneurs titled, “Get it Out There & Enchant,” features Guy ...

Tips for entrepreneurs: Jim Pitkow

by Andy Freeberg, April 28, 2011 | Comments

"Don't try to get it perfect the first time"

Jim Pitkow is the Co-Founder and CEO of Attributor, a company that provides the world's first Web-wide monitoring and enforcement platform. In this Tips for Entrepreneurs interview from HP Startup Central, he discusses today's evolved landscape for innovation and offers entrepreneurs practical advice for success.The growth and maturity of Internet businesses that represent billions of commerce dollars, coupled with a ...

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