TechCrunch:
The chances of me being genuinely amazed at something I see a Belgian tech company achieve are rather slim. But occasionally, it happens. Last week I went to local entrepreneur meetup BetaGroup and saw five startups pitch their stuff to the 200-headed audience. The last one to get its five minutes of fame was Cherry, a new (Read More)
GigaOM:
Amongst all the burning wrecks of the voice over IP startup scene, is it possible that a $40 device hawked on late-night TV may be emerging as one of the biggest VoIP success stories ever? If you believe founder Dan Borislow, that is what is happening with his idea called MagicJack, a simple USB-based VoIP device that Boris (Read More)
readwriteweb:
Time for this week's events guide, a regular feature here on ReadWriteWeb. We publish it every weekend, as good a time as any to review your conference plans.Know of an event taking place that should appear here? Let us know in the comments below or contact us.Sponsor21 July 2009: Palo Alto, California, and 23 July 2009: Lo (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week, we analyze the latest changes to Facebook's privacy controls, investigate trolling on FriendFeed, explore the impact of push notifications on the iPhone, review Firefox 3.5, check out Google's update to Blog Search, and more. We al (Read More)
readwriteweb:
If you were a little blue bird, with a good pile of money and a whole lot of hype, what would you buy to spice up your nest? There are so many little services being built on top of Twitter that we wouldn't be surprised to see some more of them acquired by the company soon. That would mean more features for everyday users (Read More)
TechCrunch:
It’s not easy to launch a WebEx competitor. Most businesses have long since established their “system” for dealing with web meetings, using old standbys like WebEx or GoToMeeting. And those businesses that are willing to venture into the unknown have had plenty of cheaper alternatives to choose from, like DimDim, for quite (Read More)
readwriteweb:
This is one post/chapter in a serialized book called Startup 101. For the introduction and table of contents, please click here.First-time entrepreneurs are usually also first-time CEOs. When you look at your first business card that says CEO, don't forget that it is not necessarily telling the truth. You earn the title of (Read More)
: A lovely post--Peter Drucker was a management philosopher and whatever he has written would stay as Laws of Physics--very difficult to cahllenge--you may reword and put the same thing differently but Drucker is like a father supreme and i like reading Stephen Covey but Drucker is like shakespeare in Literature--
TechCrunch:
Despite our best intentions, it looks like the DEMO v. TechCrunch50 war will continue, even with DEMO under new management.In 2007 we launched the first TechCrunch50 event - a place where companies can launch to rapid fans and tech press. These launching companies are the stars of the show, and they don’t pay a cent to atte (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
FriendFeed, the multi-network activity aggregator co-founded by GMail creator Paul Buchheit, announced today that it has entered the crowded field of real time search. FriendFeed was already the best way to learn what early adopter social media users were saying about any topic across blogs, Twitter, delicious and other di (Read More)
Submitted by Genwright
from blog:
Sales Management - Energize Your SalesWhat is sales management? For an employer, that means learning how to effectively hire, train and manage people for a sales team. For a sole proprietor, that means managing every aspect of selling products and services. Keep reading to find 7 exciting ways to energize your sales manag (Read More)
Submitted by Paulsorgi
from blog:
"Michael is special. He shares with you without waiting for you to enter some inner circle or reach a certain skill level. He'll spend time with anyone willing to invest their own time to build relationships that build their MLM business. "Most people in network marketing are unattractive. Why? Because they say, "Join me! J (Read More)
Submitted by Mvndrvrt
from Google Reader:
With the surge of interest in entrepreneurship, HR professionals are not immune nor exempt from feeling the “entrepreneurial bug” and desiring to pursue the goal (with accompanying joy and trails) of business ownership. Many of you are thinking about starting your own contracting or consulting businesses, which is great. (Read More)
Career Advice Blogs aggregator:
While many of us who start our own businesses or who become solo professionals value our independence, we quickly find more value in having people at our side to give us extra strength, visibility and insight in the market.In last week’s post, I touched on the power of referral partnerships. These are collaborations you can (Read More)
Submitted by Mogston
from blog:
When the young (and we mean young) team for music-focused startup The Next Big Sound was accepted for the TechStars acceleration program, they had a good product.
But a just one week into the tech/business mentorship process, they realized they had a few ideas that were much better... (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
When the young (and we mean young) team for music-focused startup The Next Big Sound was accepted for the TechStars acceleration program, they had a good product.But a just one week into the tech/business mentorship process, they realized they had a few ideas that were much better. The founders were nervous about presenting (Read More)