The consumer electronics business, once the playground of large companies, has seen scrappy entrepreneurs charge in. But while the bar to becoming a hardware entrepreneur is lower than ever, it’s still not a gimme.
Indeed, there have been some big blowups along the way. The CrunchPad project, a stab at creating a $200 touchscreen tablet, ended [...]
Freelance designers are faced with the challenge of constantly finding new work and converting inquiries into paying clients. There are plenty of different ways that you can market your services, but sometimes the most effective ways involve passive marketing.
In this article we will be looking at ten different ways you can passively market your services [...]
Freelancing isn’t always easy especially if your just starting up alone, before making the switch to freelancing its generally a good idea to have a few clients and upcoming projects to work on before quitting your 9-5 job, sometimes your hand may be forced (redundancy etc…) and you have to dive right in and make [...]
Flexibility is one reason many of us became freelancers. The idea of being your own boss, choosing your own hours, and having room in your life for other options are all very appealing.
via Making the Most of the Flexibility of Web Working – FreelanceSwitch.
Picking a co-founder is your most important decision. It’s more important than your product, market, and investors.
The ideal founding team is two individuals, with a history of working together, of similar age and financial standing, with mutual respect. One is good at building products and the other is good at selling them.
via How to pick [...]
If you want to hack a corporation fast, Social Engineering (SE) techniques work every time and more often than not it works the first time. I'm talking about in your face, Mano-a-mano, live in the flesh social engineering techniques. Securing the information that is in the human mind is a monumental, colossal, epic, task compared [...]
On Friday, CNBC hosted a wonderful town hall with Bill Gates and Warren Buffett at Columbia University.
Becky Quick moderated, and the students asked questions.
The questions included:
* Why on earth did Warren bet the farm on a railroad?
* What’s the market going to do?
* What does Bill Gates think of Steve Jobs?
* Who was Warren’s most [...]
One of the best ways to prepare yourself to pitch your company is to watch other people pitch theirs. Here are a dozen of the best “start-up” pitches we could find.
via A dozen of the best start-up pitches on the Web | JonBischke.com.
There are 25 billion videos watched each month in the US alone. That’s billion, with a “B.” So it should be no surprise that web video offers an important opportunity for small businesses to connect with a wider audience. For small business owners, online video represents a chance to reach thousands or potentially millions of [...]
The past decade is the era in which the Internet ruined everything. Just look at the industries that have been damaged by the rise of the Web: Newspapers. Magazines. Books. TV. Movies. Music. Retailers of almost any kind, from cars to real estate. Telecommunications. Airlines and hotels. Wherever companies relied on advertising to make money, [...]
A growing number of businesses are making Facebook an indispensible part of hanging out their shingles. Small businesses are using it to find new customers, build online communities of fans and dig into gold mines of demographic information.
“You need to be where your customers are and your prospective customers are,” said Clara Shih, author of [...]
This time on Inspired Talks we invited David Perel from Obox Signature Series to give some insights and tips for the creative community. Warning: lots of useful advice for freelancers and startup owners in the design niche.
via How To: Successfully Launch a Web Design Startup with Social Media and No Budget | Inspired Magazine.