startups

Startups 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, ambition, and hard work results in a new company.

Starting new companies has gotten easier with each passing year, especially since the arrival of the Internet. Historically it required a lot of money to start a new company because of inventory, infrastructure, employee, legal, and advertising costs. Today venture capital is less necessary to start a small business.

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, too.

Today 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.

by Scott Fox Are you a writer, passionate about this or any other topic? Join Blogcritics!

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “startups”

• Startups & husband / wife teams

  
  Start Up Blog — Authority: 124
  Is a husband and wife team good for a startup? Start up blog can’t answer that question. Theres enough examples of both faliure and success with such teams that I think it ‘depends’. What startup blog can say is this: In this situation there are really 2 startups. the marriage (already hard enough) the ...
  1 hour ago

• Startup Failure: Seattle’s Stigma, Boston’s Chip on Its Shoulder, and Silicon Valley’s Badge of Honor

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 707
  startups , culture , VC Gregory T. Huang wrote: “People say if you fail in Seattle, you’re screwed,” said Marcelo Calbucci. “If you fail in the Bay Area, you just have a badge of honor.” We were at the TechStars reunion event in Seattle last week, listening to early-stage investors Brad ...
  2 hours ago

• Calling all students: are you the next IT whiz-kid?

  
  Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 138
  The world is a very different place from 30-odd years ago, when a wave of hi-tech entrepreneurs including Steve Jobs and Bill Gates helped start the computer industry as we know it. But what would those look like if they turned up today? Well, heres one way to find out: Ive agreed to be a judge in a competition ...
  3 hours ago

• Viridity Points to Greener, and Cheaper, Data Centers

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 707
  IT , startups , energy Wade Roush wrote: Any company that owns or manages a data center, even a small one, knows how power-hungry they can be. It’s not unusual for operators of large data centers—say, 50,000 square feet—to pay $10 million a year or more for electricity. Under those circumstances, ...
  6 hours ago

• Virtual Goods Start Bringing Real Paydays

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 438
  Image via CrunchBase Silicon Valley may have discovered the perfect business: charging real money for products that do not exist. These so-called virtual goods, like a $1 illustration of a Champagne bottle on Facebook or the $2.50 Halloween costume in the online game Sorority Life, are no more than a ...
  6 hours ago

• Does the Lean Startup revolutionize bootstrapped marketing?

  
  matt daniels — Authority: 91
  There’s a new idea emerging for entrepreneurs with a drastically new approach to marketing: the Lean Startup . I just learned about it from an entrepreneur , who hardly contain his passion for the idea.  A bit of background: The Lean Startup begins with the premise that startups are unlike any other business.  ...
  7 hours ago

• Motherhood and Entrepreneurship

  
  PuneTech — Authority: 118
  Todays article is a guest post by Aparna Kalantri, a Pune-based mum-preneur. See the end of the article for more about her. I am in the process of setting up my own small business after my maternity break (is the break ever really over? :-). I have always been a high achiever in life, was doing very well in my ...
  8 hours ago

• Scream Like a Girl

  
  Learn to Duck — Authority: 404
  Night before last I went to see the Pinback show with my friend  Eric Marcoullier . I almost didnt go. After all, I had just finished eleven straight days of travel, which included meetings in NYC, speaking New Orleans at  Tribecon (an amazing experience!), my grandmother’s funeral in San Jose and the  ...
  9 hours ago

• Medtech Startups — 500 most recent

  
  advanced medical technologies — Authority: 127
  We have added the option to purchase and download, in Excel format, the 500 most recently identified medical technology startups. PRODUCT: Medtech Startups 500 most recent — $295.00   See the Medtech Startups Database . bookmark to
  10 hours ago

• new york state of mind

  
  ginsudo — Authority: 91
  There’s nothing like New York City – this has been said so many times in so many ways that it hardly bears repeating.  But the compulsion to declare love for New York is like the compulsion for love itself:  it doesn’t matter that countless generations have found this magic and proclaimed their discoveries ...
  14 hours ago

• Lloyds pledges help to 300000 business startups

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 974
  Lloyds Banking Group is promising to help 300000 new businesses get off the ground in the next three years and match rivals on charges and fees.
  16 hours ago

• In the Line of Wire: Some of the TiEcon 2009 videos

  
  PakBlogging — Authority: 534
  I promised some of your young aspiring entrepreneurs that I would tape some of the proceedings at TiEcon 2009. So here are a couple of videos. The official ones will be put up by TiE at some stage. But in the meantime, here are the ones I took with my flip. Jawwad Ahmed Farid talks about [...]
  16 hours ago

• Pro Pakistani: Nokia Launches X Series at a Musical Event in Karachi

  
  PakBlogging — Authority: 534
  By Danish Hassan Capturing the magic of music and touch, Nokia recently held its Music Event in Karachi. The event setup exuded tons of lively colors and disco appeal. The guests at the event were first ushered into the XpressMusic lounge where they got to experience the latest touch and music devices from Nokia. ...
  19 hours ago

• Pro Pakistani: SHC Suspends Arrest Warrant Against PTA Chairman

  
  PakBlogging — Authority: 534
  The Sindh High Court (SHC) suspended an arrest warrant, issued by an Additional District and Sessions Court on October 31, against the chairman of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) in the blasphemous caricatures case. The court issued non-bailable warrants against the cartoonists, publishers of the Danish, ...
  20 hours ago

• Pro Pakistani: PTA Removes CNIC Copy Condition for SIM Data Correction

  
  PakBlogging — Authority: 534
  Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), in order to facilitate mobile users, has removed the condition of providing CNIC copy by the consumers seeking correction in their SIM data. According to the PTA, presently, extensive monitoring of the SIM Information System — 668 is being carried out after its ...
  20 hours ago

• Pro Pakistani: Zong Consumer Promo

  
  PakBlogging — Authority: 534
  ZONG has introduced this offer that encourages its customers to put back their Zong SIMs to get incentives. It says The customer will be given 30 free on-net minutes when he/she reactivates the Zong SIM and dial 919. The customers will also get 50% free minutes on the amount of his/her monthly recharge from 6th ...
  21 hours ago

• While Skype spins off, its founders jump to Music Startup: Rdio

  
  Startup Meme — Authority: 483
  If you had one successful startup under your belt that has been fought for hard by a giant then you have every reason to jump and try new things. Skype founders, Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström are putting their years of experience to push another startup: Rdio . Rdio is a digital music startup waiting for its ...
  21 hours ago

• 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. ...
  22 hours ago

• PakSpace Telecom and IT Blog: Telenor SMS Translator

  
  PakBlogging — Authority: 534
  Continuing with the innovative tradition telenor presents SMS translation service. This service allows subscribers to translate any phrase from one of the 14 supported languages to another. The system has an Artificial Intelligence (AI) built-in that detects the phrase language without the user needing to specify the ...
  1 day ago

• In the Line of Wire: Asad Umar winds up the TiEcon 2009 proceedings

  
  PakBlogging — Authority: 534
  The final speaker for the evening was Asad Umar, CEO of Engro Chemicals. He decided to switch the delivery of his presentation. He said he would speak for 10 minutes and leave 20 minutes for Q&A. He highlighted a few points in his talk: 1. The conventional thought that you should first join a large corporate, [...]
  1 day ago

Comments about startups