By Farhan Thawar, VP of Engineering, Xtreme Labs Managing a fast-growing company can be a rewarding and Read More
How to Double Your Company’s Growth Every Year
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It appears that Posterous has begun pulling the plug.
I had 6 blogs in syndication on blog platform Posterous until this morning when 4 of the 6 Read More
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This Will Be the Last Article You Read
If the Internet had a voice, I am fairly certain it would sound like the HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Read More
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How to Think About Marketing an Innovation
Innovation is all about value, and both internal communications and external marketing have a critical role to play Read More
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The network effect isn’t good enough….
Note: I’m pleased to have co-authored this post with Sangeet Paul Choudary, who analyzes business models for network businesses at Platformed.info. Follow Read More
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Escape from message hell
We are caught in an endless cycle of messaging hell and the pattern is always the same. First, Read More
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Make your users do the work
The belief that products should always be as easy to use as possible is a sacred cow of Read More
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Hiring Your First Employee?
You’ve put in the hard work as a solo entrepreneur, and now it’s time to add your first Read More
(Larry Kramer is the author of C-Scape, a book on the changing landscape for media and related industries Read More
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You don’t have to be extraordinary
As I sat down to brainstorm ideas for a post, I realized that many of the examples that Read More
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Are You Cut Out to Be a Franchisee?
For many Americans, owning a small business is a life-long dream. However, building a business from the ground Read More
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This week in Greenstart – Week 3
Greenstart is a cleantech accelerator program providing a fast runway to success for entrepreneurs addressing the energy challenge. Greenstart provides Read More
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Entrepreneur Tips: Yonatan Maor, Shaker
Yonatan Maor is the CEO and Co-Founder of Shaker, whose Facebook app for interacting and meeting in virtual Read More
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Today’s Entrepreneur: Todd Wilkinson
Today’s entrepreneur is Todd Wilkinson, CEO of WordWatch, an automated AdWords bid management platform for SMBs. He is one Read More
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Entrepreneur Tips: Finding the right people
Hiring – one thing we hear time and again – is among the most difficult and critical tasks Read More