The "Work From Home" Generation
For decades in American households the most dreaded morning sound was that of an alarm clock. Sometime between 6 and 7am a beep or radio music signaled that ...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/25/2008 | eBiz Startup & Management

LinkedIn Founder Has Golden Touch
Few Internet entrepreneurs practice what they preach as devoutly as LinkedIn Corp. co-founder Reid Hoffman, whose business revolves around his belief that good fortune...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/22/2008 | eBiz Startup & Management

36 Startup Tips: From Software Engineering to PR and More!
This is a collection of startup tips covering software engineering, infrastructure, PR, conferences, legal and finance. They describe best practices for an early-stage startup.
eBusiness News | Posted 12/27/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Google’s Chief on What’s Different
During a lengthy interview at the corporate campus, Eric Schmidt, Google’s chief executive, touched on managing amid rapid technology change.
eBusiness News | Posted 12/17/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Surviving The 2008 Recession
Recession is in the air. It isn’t here for sure, but, damn, when you pay $50 for two coffees and a tart in Paris you know your economy isn’t healthy.
eBusiness News | Posted 12/16/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Economics That Are Impossible to Stop
A few days ago, Jeff Barr, Amazon’s Web services (AWS) evangelist visited my class and got a report of what we’d built over the course of the last semester on top of AWS.
eBusiness News | Posted 12/15/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Bill Gates: The Skills You Need to Succeed
One of the most important changes of the last 30 years is that digital technology has transformed almost everyone into an information worker.
eBusiness News | Posted 12/14/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Entrepreneur 2.0
American lives, F. Scott Fitzgerald once said, don’t have a second act. As the New York Times’ Gary Rivlin reported in his profile of PayPal co-founder Max Levchin...
eBusiness News | Posted 11/15/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Post Bubble: Internet Startups Go Low Budget
There are a few hurdles between Landy Ung and her dream of growing her startup into a household name. One is the fact that her only outside funding comes...
eBusiness News | Posted 11/13/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Too Much Information? Ignore It
Silicon Valley stops and listens to a four-hour-workweek guru. AS one of Silicon Valley’s most respected entrepreneurs, Marc Andreessen is something of a connoisseur...
eBusiness News | Posted 11/12/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Digital Telepathy Helps You Build Your Web 2.0 Startup
San Diego based Digital Telepathy has changed direction from strategy-public relations to services, with a new model that will appeal to anyone who has ever wanted...
eBusiness News | Posted 11/09/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Building The Paperless Office
Computers were supposed to make paperless offices possible, but most of us are surrounded by more pages than ever. It's possible to break free from paper's grip, however.
eBusiness News | Posted 10/15/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Which Google Products Should A Small Business Use? (Part Two)
Google offers a variety of products beyond its traditional search engine, and many of those products could help a small business owner grow an online business.
eBusiness News | Posted 10/11/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

MBAs May Be Obsolete
The Master of Business Administration degree has been a holy grail for decades. If you wanted a career that mattered and didn't have the aptitude for medical school...
eBusiness News | Posted 10/04/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

In Facebook, Investing in a Theory
Thousands of software developers are creating features for Facebook, the fast growing social network, many hoping to strike it rich alongside Facebook’s own employees.
eBusiness News | Posted 10/04/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

The Kopy Kat Kids
Three German brothers struck gold by bringing Silicon Valley's best ideas - and its maverick spirit - to their risk-averse country.
eBusiness News | Posted 10/03/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Two Years of the Real Numbers of a Startup
Startups face one primary challenge: To never run out of cash. So when projecting costs, we heeded Guy’s advice that “the three most powerful words you can utter...
eBusiness News | Posted 10/02/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Learning from Bill Gates & Steve Jobs
It's been almost two years since I wrote this post comparing the approaches to presentation by Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.
eBusiness News | Posted 9/30/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Y Combinator Inspires Imitators
Paul Graham's intensive workshop permits investors and startups to check each other out with a minimum of risk and a maximum of potential.
eBusiness News | Posted 9/30/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

A New Short Story Imagines Google as a Bad Big Brother
In science-fiction author Cory Doctorow's short story "Scroogled," a woman shrugs when she sees "Immigration--Powered by Google" on an airport sign, but that's...
eBusiness News | Posted 9/26/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

What's Next: The Cost of Competence
Technology is intimately linked with change, and the pace of high-tech-driven change is constantly accelerating. That, in essence, has been the biggest business story...
eBusiness News | Posted 9/23/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Legal Suicide For Web 2.0 Start-ups: A Beginner's Guide
A Microsoft employee has posted details about planned changes to Microsoft's Live Search, ahead of an event next week where the company was slated to unveil ...
eBusiness News | Posted 9/22/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Tough Times Ahead For The Web?
I was meeting with a web entrepreneur yesterday. It's something I do at least five to ten times a week. This entrepeneur said 'but I worry that the coming downturn...
eBusiness News | Posted 9/18/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Rental Building’s Good Karma Nurtures Success
Over the years, one building in Palo Alto, Calif., has been home to some of Silicon Valley's most successful start-ups.
eBusiness News | Posted 9/14/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Can Amazon Make Startupping A Science?
Amazon is trying to turn the art of internet startups into a science. At an open event at Stanford yesterday, a couple hundred or so entrepreneurs, VCs...
eBusiness News | Posted 9/14/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Companies' Online Reputations Scrubbed Clean
Most savvy consumers would never do business with an unfamiliar company without first running a quick Internet background check.
eBusiness News | Posted 9/11/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

How To Bootstrap Your Startup
The aim of many entrepreneurs is to take a business idea and convert it into a professional and functioning business on a low budget.
eBusiness News | Posted 9/10/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Will Weakening Economy KO Web Startups?
Economy watchers see recession as more likely after Friday's weak jobs data. What does this mean for Web 2.0 hopefuls...
eBusiness News | Posted 9/10/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Want a Job at Google? Try These Brainteasers First
Google, Microsoft, and eBay are looking for engineers who can think on their feet. Here's how they find them.
eBusiness News | Posted 8/30/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Case Study of a Teenage Millionaire: Ashley Qualls & WhateverLife.com
Her numbers are indeed impressive. 17 years old high school dropout. Made more than $1 million. Earns as much as $70K a month. Owns a website that attracts more than...
eBusiness News | Posted 8/30/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Tech Stock Oasis: Can It Last?
Surprisingly, technology has been a "safe haven" from the market's subprime-driven credit woes. Will the sector escape the storm unscathed?
eBusiness News | Posted 8/27/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

The Digestion Phase: How We Got Here And Where We Are Going Next
Everything is cyclical. From stock markets to our daily lives we see cycles; on the macro scale of economics and on a micro level of entomology there are cycles.
eBusiness News | Posted 8/23/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Firms, Investors Tend to Prosper with Founders at the Helm
Like coddling parents guiding their kids as they grow, companies' founders have a gut instinct on how to best care for their babies.
eBusiness News | Posted 8/22/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

The Secrets of a Teen's Internet Success
Internet start-ups have a legacy of twenty-something founders. Just look at Microsoft, Yahoo and Google.
eBusiness News | Posted 8/16/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

The End Of Work As You Know It
Increasing connectivity will change how and where we labor—even the very notion of an employer. You have no idea how you'd get any work done on business trips...
eBusiness News | Posted 8/16/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Proof M.B.A.s Are Overrated
Most business schools would love for you to believe that an M.B.A. is the ticket to huge paychecks and unlimited career growth. However, a large number of businesspeople...
eBusiness News | Posted 8/14/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Who Owns the Concept if No One Signs the Papers?
The founder and chief executive of Facebook, the fast-growing social networking Web site, is being sued by the founders of ConnectU, another social network.
eBusiness News | Posted 8/12/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Will Dot-Coms Save Us From Subprime-Lending Woes?
The subprime-lending fallout seems to be hitting just about everywhere these days. What began as a smattering of casualties among the risky...
eBusiness News | Posted 8/12/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

230+ Tools for Running a Business Online
Forget useless desktop apps and piles of paperwork: there are now thousands of small and medium-sized businesses managing all their affairs with online applications.
eBusiness News | Posted 8/10/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Will Credit Crunch Help Or Hurt Tech Cos?
Stocks may be rebounding but the credit crunch isn't finished. The mortgage market is hungover from a subprime binge.
eBusiness News | Posted 8/08/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Wars of Ideas: Top 10 Tech Legal Battles
Ever since the dawn of technology, new ideas have spawned legal squabbles. The history of such battles is as long as the history of the law itself...
eBusiness News | Posted 8/07/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Burned Once, but Starting Up Again
Michael Wolff, Vanity Fair columnist and author of 'Burn Rate,' is helping launch an online news aggregation service.
eBusiness News | Posted 8/06/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

How To Beat Google To Tech Talent
Let's just call the Googleplex what it really is: the ultimate recruiting tool. Employees are shuttled to Google's Mountain View, Calif., headquarters for free.
eBusiness News | Posted 8/03/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

How to Craft a Killer Elevator Pitch
This is the 30-60 second business description of what you do and why someone should work with you.
eBusiness News | Posted 8/02/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Online Contracts With The Force of Law
A Spanish startup takes aim at the legal profession worldwide with legally-enforceable online contracts.
eBusiness News | Posted 8/02/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

The Flip Side of Entrepreneurship
Last month, Guy called James Hong and Markus Frind heroes for running multi-million dollar websites like Hot or Not and Plenty of Fish in their underwear.
eBusiness News | Posted 8/02/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Why A Startup's Initial Business Plan Doesn't Matter That Much
A startup's initial business plan doesn't matter that much, because it is very hard to determine up front exactly what combination of product and market will ...
eBusiness News | Posted 8/01/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Make Money Online: 100+ Tools and Resources
Making money online is a dream for many, but the simple fact is that it's often just as tough as making money offline. Due to requests, we've put together a ...
eBusiness News | Posted 7/30/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Conference Tips for Startups
We have been to quite a few conferences already and quite a few people have asked me what conferences are good. The problem is not that some conferences are bad...
eBusiness News | Posted 7/30/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

The Entrepreneurial Generation
New technologies, a proliferation of resources, and a disenchantment with the corporate world are making Generation Y the most entrepreneurial in history.
eBusiness News | Posted 7/30/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

50+ Websites For the Kickass Control Freak
We admit it: we're control freaks. We wanna control every single aspect of our lives...and with the latest Web 2.0 tools, we already can.
eBusiness News | Posted 7/27/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management