Start Me Up! A profile of Shoply
Launched last year, Shoply is a social shopping site which provides a marketplace for small brands and local business looking to sell online.
I've been asking CEO Liad Shababo about Shoply...
Will Facebook help or hurt the startup economy?
When Facebook filed to go public earlier this week, you can be sure that the excitement in the halls of Facebook's offices was palpable. After all, the company's wild ride is going to make a lot of people very wealthy.
But the excitement around Facebook's IPO isn't just being felt amongst Facebook's employees. It's creating increased excitement for technology entrepreneurs, some of whom hope their startups could be the next Facebook.
Start Me Up! A profile of Movellas
Movellas has been described as 'YouTube for ebooks', and it allows writers to upload their poetry, stories and essays to the platform.
Anyone can create their own 'movella' and it is accessible anywhere, anytime, from a computer, tablet, iPad, iPod Touch, eReader or smartphone.
I asked CEO and Co-Founder Per Larson about the company...
SOPA: the sad but honest truth
The fight against SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, may be one of the most important fights ever waged on the internet. It threatens to change the course of the web's development, and not for the better.
Given the impact this dark and misguided legislation would have on the internet economy, it's no surprise that many are coming together to do what they can to ensure it doesn't become law.
The media is starting to pay attention, and SOPA supporters like GoDaddy are seeing that such support comes at a cost. These things provide some hope that SOPA will be defeated.
Unfortunately, however, the discussion about SOPA is incomplete.
Start Me Up! A profile of Bounty It!
BountyIt.com aims to help startups and others out with getting great feedback and ideas on anything from website design to everyday business issues.
I've been asking founder Cliff Bernstein about the company.
Five ways entrepreneurs can avoid the doldrums
Starting a new venture is tough, but entrepreneurs are often less likely to complain. After all, to succeed, you have to be positive, right?
Following the death of Diaspora co-founder Ilya Zhitomirskiy, some are questioning whether those sorts of beliefs are dangerous, and a perhaps much-needed discussion is taking place about depression amongst entrepreneurs.
Start Me Up! A profile of Elance
Elance is a platform for online work that helps businesses hire and manage in the cloud.
I've been asking VP Europe Kjetil Olsen about Elance's business model and its future plans...
Are today's startups generating revenue faster?
Are we in a new .com bubble? It seems quite likely, but that doesn't mean that many of today's startups aren't better at generating actual revenue than their now-defunct counterparts of the late 1990s.
According to venture capitalist, Josh Kopelman, whose First Round Capital operates seed stage funds, about 60% of the companies in his firm's portfolio have generated over $250,000 in revenue in the 18 months following their financing. The percentage in 2005: just 21%.
Discounts and loyalty: a bad match?
Quick: what are some of the best way to acquire loyal customers? If you look around online, you might draw the conclusion that providing discounts makes the list.
Billions upon billions of dollars worth of coupons are distributed by brands each year, and increasingly couponing is moving to the web, where bargain-loving consumers have more power than ever to seek out the very best deals available.
Start Me Up! A profile of easyBacklog
Launched by Econsultancy co-founder Matthew O'Riordan, easyBacklog is a time saving backlog management tool for Agile practitioners working in or with agencies.
I've been asking Matthew about easyBacklog, the challenges involved in building the tool, and his target audience...
