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”

• 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
  German newspaper Handelsblatt today identified AT&T, Kirkland-based Clearwire and MetroPCS as potential partners for T-Mobile USA as the Bellevue-based company’s parent, Deutsche Telekom, looks to finance a network upgrade for its German newspaper Handelsblatt today identified AT&T, Kirkland-based Clearwire ...
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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
  Microsoft’s support for Referendum 71 won its Bing search engine a new fan in David Schmader of the Stranger, but the company’s Internet search practices related to China have now lost Bing a user in Nicholas Kristof — and the New York Times columnist is calling onMicrosoft’s support for Referendum 71 won its ...
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• SABA Motors’ Vision: an Exotic Electric Sports Car for the Masses

  
  ThePumaBlog — Authority: 107
  Ever since I was a kid, when my father used give me Matchbox cars he bought on his way home from work, I’ve been crazy about cars. So I was extremely excited to have the opportunity to speak with Simon Saba of Saba Motors , whose EV vision is something any gearhead can get jazzed about: to deliver an exotic ...
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• Rippol Launches Video Discovery Service

  
  socalTECH.com - Southern California High Tech News — Authority: 517
  San Diego-based Rippol , a new startup looking to help people discovery and find online videos, is launching today at the TechCrunch Real-Time CrunchUp in San Francisco. The new site uses social networking features, including links to Facebook and Twitter, to help users find and discover video based on information ...
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• [Giveaway] Get a Chance to Win Free License of “TuneUp Utilities 2010″ Worth $49.95

  
  Tweaking with Vishal — Authority: 472
  "TuneUp Utilities" is one of the most popular tweaking software available for Microsoft Windows. It provides lots of useful tools like Registry Optimizer, Registry Cleaner, System Optimizer, etc. It also allows you to easily customize Windows appearance by changing Windows theme, login screen, boot screen and ...
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• Seesmic Launches Mobile Apps for Android and BlackBerry

  
  Mashable! — Authority: 879
  Hot on the heels of the launch of the Windows desktop app preview , Seesmic has brought its Twitter client to the mobile arena as well with the launch of clients for the Android and BlackBerry platforms. Both apps are available for free — get the Android version from the Android Market and the BlackBerry version by ...
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• Status.Net: The WordPress For Microblogs Gets A Hosted Solution

  
  Technology Pundit — Authority: 167
  Last year, we saw the launch of identi.ca , the open-sourced alternative to Twitter. At the time, we wrote that the company was never going to rival Twitter. As it turns out, that’s not the goal of parent company StatusNet.
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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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• Web Startup Society

  
  blogUT — Authority: 123
  There are a lot of students out there who want to start an Internet company but are lost, either because there is not enough “push” from the community to motivate them to get started or because they don’t know where to find the right people. U of T’s Web Startup Society wants to connect student entrepreneurs ...
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• Start-up nations

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 437
  A drive to turn the whole world into entrepreneurs AN OPPOSITION is supposed to oppose, of course—but Britain’s Conservative Party, poised on the brink of power, is sending an odd message by pledging to scrap the country’s annual Enterprise Week, which began this year on November 16th. Apparently, this is ...
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• The Daily Start-Up: QuinStreet Files For IPO After All

  
  WebGuild — Authority: 511
  QuinStreet Journal – You might remember our blog post in August about a online marketing company called QuinStreet Inc. which suddenly released its financial numbers in a press release. The figures were indeed worth boasting about – $260.5 million in revenue for the fiscal year, up 35%, and grQuinStreet Journal ...
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• Start-Up Employees Tell All … In 140 Characters Or Less

  
  WebGuild — Authority: 511
  Working for a start-up is hard enough. Trying to wittily describe ”the unique entrepreneurial culture that sets their company apart and inspires them to go to work each day” – in 140 characters or less – is equally challenging.That was the task set by the National Venture Capital AssoWorking for a start-up is ...
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• How To Change The Default Location Of Windows Explorer ?

  
  vhxn.com — Authority: 441
  Usually, if you press Win+E keys, the system will open a Windows Explorer by default that contains My Documents folder and logged User name folder. If you want to open a different folder when you hit Windows + E keys, it is not as tough as lifting Weight Lift. Just follow these simple steps. •    Click on ...
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• Founder’s Stock Can be Very Expensive

  
  Startup Professionals Musings — Authority: 470
  In reality, so-called “founder’s” shares are simply common stock, issued at the time of startup incorporation, for a very low price, and normally allocated to the multiple initial players commensurate with their investment or role. But that’s only the beginning of the story. These shares are allocated and ...
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• RealNetworks in talks to reduce its Rhapsody ownership stake

  
  WebGuild — Authority: 511
  RealNetworks and Viacom’s MTV Networks are talking about restructuring their Rhapsody joint venture — aiming to possibly reduce the Seattle company’s ownership stake and end its majority control of the music service, according to a regRealNetworks and Viacom’s MTV Networks are talking about restructuring their ...
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