startup

Startup companies are entrepreneurial business ventures. Usually founded by an individual or small team of professionals, startups are generally based on an invention, innovation, or improvements to existing products or services. The combination of this business insight, plus ambition and hard work, can create a new company.

Starting a new company has become easier and cheaper since the arrival of the Internet. Historically, the expense of starting a new company was higher, due to inventory, infrastructure, employee, legal, and advertising costs. Today venture capital is often less necessary, as initial costs are lower.

The Internet’s rapid expansion has also opened startup opportunities for entrepreneurs worldwide. The interconnected nature of Internet communications enables the rapid spread of information, inexpensive collaboration between geographically distant parties, and low cost website software and tools that enable the sale of goods via e-commerce and online advertising.

Startup companies are more common than ever. This is a trend likely to continue as more people worldwide become connected to the Internet and invest in their own futures by working together to build new companies.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “startup”

• Rainmakers – How Startups Can Go Global From Day One

  
  e27 - Discovering Web Innovation in Asia — Authority: 468
  The folks at the National University of Singapore Entrepreneurs Association (NUSEA) in Silicon Valley are putting together a stellar event, together with Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students (BASES) and Santa Clara Entrepreneurship Organization (SCEO) , in conjunction with the Global ...
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• Overvaluing Product Ideas Can Lead to Failure

  
  | Creo Quality, LLC — Authority: 432
  Do entrepreneurs overvalue their companies and products?According to Jonathan Lambert developers tend to overvalue their innovations and customers undervalue innovation and it’s this disconnect that is fundamental to why innovative start-ups are failing.Here’s what happens:inventor becomes obsessed with their ...
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• A look back at 15 years of Microsoft advertising

  
  WebGuild — Authority: 166
  The Big Money’s Win Rosenfeld puts together a comprehensive report on Microsoft’s advertising campaigns over the years. The conclusion? For the most part — except for the recent Laptop Hunters ads — the campaigns have mThe Big Money’s Win Rosenfeld puts together a comprehensive report on Microsoft’s ...
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• Entrepreneur E-Commerce Entry is Easy

  
  Startup Professionals Musings — Authority: 515
  If you have a unique creation or invention, and you are not selling it around the world on the Internet, now is the time to start. The cost of entry has never been lower. Anyone can be an entrepreneur today, without a huge investment, bank loans, venture capitalists, or angels. In the early days (20 years ago), most ...
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• Why do we Startup?

  
  Diovo — Authority: 106
  Did you know that 9 out of 10 startups fail?  We are talking about the serious startups. In the  not-so-serious type, almost all of them fail. So still why do I want to start a startup? In the grand scheme of things, it does not matter whether I succeed or not. What matters is that 1 out of 10 startups do succeed. ...
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• 3 Reasons Online Entrepreneurs Love Affiliate Marketing

  
  Stompernet SEO Course — Authority: 163
  The affiliate marketing business models is a favorite amongst online entrepreneurs for many different reasons. As the age of the internet continues to mature more people are working online from home. Many are starting a small business in the field of affiliate marketing due to the affordable startup costs. In fact the ...
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• Asian Angels Investors Coming Together in March 2010

  
  e27 - Discovering Web Innovation in Asia — Authority: 468
  Yes there are angel networks around Asia. They do exist, we all know it. But the connections are lose, the networks are pretty fragmented with most major pockets of angel investors residing in Singapore, India, China and smaller pockets around the rest of Southeast Asia. These investors usually invest in their own ...
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• Why Outsource to an SEO Company in Israel?

  
  Internet Marketing and SEO Israel Blog on Optimization Strategy — Authority: 99
  Some people wonder why companies from all over the world want to work with us. After all, we are located in a bad neighborhood–one of our neighboring countries openly says they would like to wipe us off the face of the earth. And it’s not like there aren’t any good Internet marketing companies in America, ...
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• WhatInStartup v1.15 - Disable/enable/delete programs at Windows startup

  
  The Positive Side — Authority: 119
  This utility displays the list of all applications that are loaded automatically when Windows starts up. For each application, the following information is displayed: Startup Type (Registry/Startup Folder), Command-Line String, Product Name, File Version, Company Name, Location in the Registry or file system, and ...
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• "The origins of the Wired generation and the laid-back, long-hair computer culture (think open..."

  
  c0wb0yz Lives ! — Authority: 435
  “The origins of the Wired generation and the laid-back, long-hair computer culture (think open source) lay in the hippies of the 70s. As Stewart Brand, hippy founder of the Whole Earth Catalog remembers, ” ‘Do your own thing’ easily translated into ‘Start your own business’.” I’ve lost count of the ...
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• Zune HD Firmware 4.3 Released

  
  Today's Review — Authority: 166
  Microsoft just released firmware 4.3 for the Zune HD . It fixes some minor issues like speeding up the browser, does some preliminary support for upcoming applications and games and also adds predictive text input to make it a bit easier to type on the device. It also speeds up the startup a little and adds a few ...
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• Low Cost of Living in Indiana Not Enough

  
  | Creo Quality, LLC — Authority: 432
  Why Should People Move to Indiana? Most Hoosiers would say that our cost of living is low (currently $29,959.42, US City Average = $34,868.00) and it’s a great place to raise a family. In fact, Brownsburg (33) and St. John (48) were ranked in the Top 100 Best Places to Live by Money Magazine for [...]
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• Don’t Give Up Three Feet from the Gold

  
  Startup Professionals Musings — Authority: 515
  Startups are tough. For every entrepreneur, there are more opportunities to fail than to succeed. Yet experts say that quitting too soon is a prime causes of failure. No one knows how many business founders quit digging when they are only three feet from the gold. Way back in 1937, an author name Napoleon Hill first ...
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• Write an eBook and Earn Extra Cash

  
  Working From Home Blogging — Authority: 124
  The financial crunch has everyone on the run. Families can’t make ends meet and wages don’t match prices in the marketplace. Parents are working multiple jobs to keep food on the table. When you’ve come to the point where you need another job, help is on the way. You won’t have to worry about having less time ...
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• Study: More than 77,000 jobs tied to state’s biotech industry

  
  WebGuild — Authority: 166
  It has been a rough year for the Seattle biotech industry with layoffs, losses and one poorly performing initial public offering. But a new report released today by the Washington Research Council indicates that the industry plays an important role in the state’s economy. The report found thaIt has been a rough year ...
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• Firefox Startup Performance Weekly Summary

  
  dietrich — Authority: 108
  This week brings a boost in visibility of results, not just for startup, but for all the performance testing we’re doing on all branches and platforms. As I mentioned last week, I was working on an automated method of generating the cross-branch startup results. Luckily Johnath and Chris Atlee had done the hard ...
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• My Fusion Form ‘Perfect Pitch’ slides

  
  Bootup Labs Blog — Authority: 106
  Yesterday (November 5th, 2009) I presented to the 37 tech companies who were all vying for the 20 open slots to pitch various VCs and Angels at the upcoming 3rd annual Fusion Forum . Here is the presentation I gave, but click through to see the notes for context. Get your ticket now to see the 20 finalists ...
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• Ning Pumps Up Apps With Week-Long Competition

  
  WebGuild — Authority: 166
  Ning Inc., which lets people create their own social networks, is adding some sizzle to its recently launched application platform for third-party developers.The well-funded start-up is holding a one-week competition for developers, offering six winners between $500 and $5,000 for the best apps, plus prominent ...
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• Lenders protest Zillow.com’s new fees for mortgage leads

  
  WebGuild — Authority: 166
  Earlier this week, an interesting debate broke out on TechFlash after we reported on a dispute between a Seattle plumber and the online directory service HelpHive. The crux of the issue centered on whether HelpHive’s system of creating a separate phone number for the businesses listed in its oEarlier this week, an ...
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