No Sex Life For Startup Founders
No social life. At least in the startup phase.
That’s the message from two of the fiercest competitors in venture capital: John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Mike Moritz of Sequoia Capital. In a story today on VentureWire, Scott Austin reports on a rare Q&A session with the two men yesterday.
How Stay-at-Home Moms
Lots of employers would like to be able to hire cheap, temporary teams of seasoned pros with experience managing $2 billion investment portfolios, running ad campaigns or earning Ph.D.s in neuroscience.
But few know the secret to finding temps of that caliber: Look on playgrounds and at PTA meetings.
Still Think Hamburgers Are A Boring Business?
Given the ubiquity of the all-beef patty and the global spread of the golden arches, one can be forgiven for struggling to imagine America before the burger.
Cool Startups - AdsSpy.Com
Great ideas for startups are often quite accidental. When SEOQuake tech guys indexed most sites in the internet, they were stuck with a load of information. Among them, whether or not a site runs any contextual advertisement through Google Adsense, Yahoo Publisher Network, Chitika or Amazon.Com. This was easily determined by presence or absence of code that had a Publisher ID for one of the networks.
A Hairdresser's Secret:Keeping His Clients Close
Nick Arrojo?
Free Notebooks For Students As A Business
Last summer we wrote about FreeHand Advertising and its initiative to give free, ad-supported notepaper to college students, and now ABS Notebooks is going a step further and handing out whole notebooks instead.
How a Minneapolis scrapyard got wired and sent sales through the roof.
http://www.alliancesteelco.com/
When Michael Zweigbaum took over as CEO of Alliance Steel Services in Minneapolis three years ago, the 40-year-old scrap-metal company had grown rusty.
Quite Possibly, The Best Article On Affiliate Marketing Ever Written
Get this – even if you don’t finish reading this post and don’t click a single link, I’ll still make 10 cents off you. That’s because the post has eCPM of a little over $100, meaning I get hundred bucks for every 1000 impressions (as long as most traffic comes from US). I’ve actually tested this post for two weeks on my other blog that deals with weird business ideas and eCPM there was in the $96-$112 range.
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
If you are going to write a guide to crafting sticky ideas, your book had better embody your principles. Authors Chip and Dan Heath succeed admirably. What I love about "Made to Stick" is that it is not merely entertaining (though it is), it provides practical, tangible strategies for creating sticky ideas.
Do Online Reputation Management Services Work?
Google the name of your company right now. See anything you don't like? If you do, at least a dozen services promise they can make it disappear.
An industry of online fixers is sprouting to defend clients against damaging information on the Web. With potential customers increasingly heading online to research products and services, bad reviews or complaints that turn up in a search can mean lost business. Reputation management services promise to highlight positive pages and bury offending sites deep in search results.
