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Starting a business isn’t
as crazy and risky as they say

August 24, 2009 | Jason Cohen

Tell someone you’re starting a business, then brace yourself for their overwhelming show of support:

Wow, 95 percent of all businesses fail, right? That’s …

 

Open source Funambol syncs email apps

August 20, 2009 | Robert Scoble

Funambol is a mobile open source sync project that Rackspace has adapted for its use on servers, while making development contributions back to the

 

A new kind of business card: Touch me!

August 19, 2009 | Robert Scoble

The Poken is a small, low-power electronic gadget targeting the “Web 2.0 Twitter crowd” that is intended to replace the paper business card, says…

 

Darwinian explanation and advice for “Going Viral”

August 19, 2009 | Jason Cohen

Everyone wants to “go viral” these days. A viral video, blog post, news announcement, who cares so long as it’s viral! I still can’t…

 

The how and why of Open Atrium

August 17, 2009 | Gretchen Glasscock

After spotting a recent Tweet by a friend on installing Open Atrium, an intranet-in-a-box, I was intrigued. Just what was in that box that …

 

Social media boosts brick and mortar business

August 13, 2009 | Sara Morris

Here’s some practical advice on how to use online social networking tools to generate more traffic in your  brick and mortar business. In this…

 

Online fundraising help

August 11, 2009 | Robert Scoble

Click&Pledge is an on-demand software system, in the Software as a Service, or SaaS, category, that offers a low-cost hosted service targeting such groups…

 

Web site image tips

August 10, 2009 | Stuart Miles

This piece originally was published July 14, 2009, on Pocket-lint.com. With Google changing its image search parameters to allow you to search for Commercial…

 

Fireside Chat: Money and passion

August 7, 2009 | building43

Two of Silicon Valley’s most successful venture capitalists say even the best ideas can be worthless without passion. In the concluding session of Revenue…