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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  WebGuild — Authority: 511
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• “What Makes an Entrepreneur? Four Letters: JFDI”

  
  robhyndman.com — Authority: 113
  A superb post by Mark Suster on the necessity of committing to your vision and taking action on it. I see so many people who return to me for advice on the essentially the same decisions, or who I see stuck on the same challenges. BTW, I don’t believe this skill is unteachable, but I do believe it can’t be ...
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• Investor Interest Depends on Startup Stage

  
  Startup Professionals Musings — Authority: 470
  If you are looking for an outside investor, you need to know how they see you. Different types of investors look for startups at different levels of maturity. If your startup is at the wrong stage for the investor you are approaching, the courting is a waste of time for both of you. For instance, if your company is ...
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• Startups are like “2012″!

  
  Trakin' the india business buzz — Authority: 520
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• TuneUp Utilities 2010 9.0.2010.10 (Repack from 20.11.2009)

  
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• Hot Potato Aims to Connect People Over Live Events, iPhone App Coming

  
  AT&T (formerly Cingular) iPhone Reviews, iPhone Apps and Accessories — Authority: 147
  TechCrunch reports on an interesting new startup, Hot Potato. It’s a micro-messaging service that allows people to connect over live events happening right now, as well as to keep tabs on what their friends are up to. They have an iPhone app on the way which will use GPS to show you events happening near Continued ...
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• Mobile payments start-up Bling Nation looking for nice operator

  
  GoMo News — Authority: 580
  GoMo News had a 1-to-1 with Wences Casares, Founder, Director and Co-CEO of Bling Nation . One of the more promising payment start-ups at the Under The Radar conference, the mobile payments company uses NFC stickers to replace credits cards at point-of-sale transactions. Wences gaves me a live demo of the service. ...
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• Report: AT&T, Clearwire among prospective T-Mobile partners

  
  WebGuild — Authority: 511
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• NeedCube – Let Your Needs Find You

  
  StartupBooster.com — Authority:
  Have you ever had the desire to just tell someone what you need and when you need it and then expect them to fulfill all your needs rather than you do it each time? Well I believe NeedCube , a new website, has a solution to your desire. NeedCube allows you to create a profile/identify for yourself in which you can ...
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• Firefox Startup Performance Weekly Summary

  
  dietrich — Authority: 110
  Current numbers are available on the Performance Snapshot page. Summary, relative to Firefox 3.5: Warm startup: For Mac, 36% better on 3.6 and 35% better on 3.7. For Windows, 5% and 5%. Flat on Linux. Also, Warm startup for Mac on 3.6 is a whopping 13% better than last week, due to the landing of bug 517804 . ...
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• NYT’s Kristof: Boycott Bing

  
  WebGuild — Authority: 511
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• SABA Motors’ Vision: an Exotic Electric Sports Car for the Masses

  
  ThePumaBlog — Authority: 107
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• Rippol Launches Video Discovery Service

  
  socalTECH.com - Southern California High Tech News — Authority: 517
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• Seesmic Launches Mobile Apps for Android and BlackBerry

  
  Mashable! — Authority: 879
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• Status.Net: The WordPress For Microblogs Gets A Hosted Solution

  
  Technology Pundit — Authority: 167
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• Who Has The Gold To Make The Rule – VC Or Entrepreneur?

  
  WebGuild — Authority: 511
  (The following dispatch comes from Geoffrey Rogow, a reporter with Dow Jones Newswires, who recently interviewed Twitter Inc. co-founder Biz Stone onstage at the Ernst & Young Strategic Growth Forum.) Reuters The ongoing struggle between some entrepreneurs and VCs over control According to the golden rule, he ...
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• Startup-Watch: A Closer Look at Esty.com

  
  WebGuild — Authority: 511
  One of the companies I’ve been following for a long time is Esty.com.  Esty.com is a website for folks selling craft items – or as they put it “Your place to buy & sell all things handmade.”  More broadly, they are referred to in the startup world One of the companies I’ve been following for a long ...
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• Read Quinn Curtis and Emily Hill’s Reviews of Startup Princes Image & Media Academy

  
  StartupPrincess.com — Authority: 122
  I’ve had good intentions all week to write more about the fabulous Startup Princess Image & Media Academy but it just hasn’t happened yet so I’m grateful Quinn Curtis , Founder of Created by Mom , Limelight Food Photography and Created by Chicks and Blogger/Writer Emily Hill , and Co-Founder of ...
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• How do you avoid lawyers, while still protecting yourself and partners?

  
  Irvine Retail & Real Estate — Authority: 420
  Nick Haschka After learning the hard way that we needed to focus on our passion, the project on exploring solar opportunities in Arizona began to heat up. Our first read-out got the project’s sponsor increasingly excited about moving forward with a large investment in a solar power plant. We learned that ...
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