A Little Business Know-How from the Chick in the Skirt…
Posted in Start-Up of the Week on Mar 3rd, 2009
Do you know who’s talking about you online? Has someone mentioned your company on their Facebook page or passed along your name to a connection on LinkedIn? Don’t know? Don’t worry. Austin, Texas-based Clatterhead solves this dilemma and more. With roots in the music industry, Clatterhead is all about creating, defining [...]
Posted in Start-Up of the Week on Feb 3rd, 2009
As entrepreneurs, we do a lot of writing. Whether it be simple one-page sales letters or in-depth proposals, we’re constantly required to craft up written masterpieces. But what happens when we are faced with the challenge of creating something really detailed and highly technical like a user manual, programming guide or software documentation? [...]
Posted in Start-Up of the Week on Jan 12th, 2009
Gaming… It’s a mega industry worth $20 billion and rising – jam packed with opportunities for developers and entrepreneurs. But finding that next ‘cool’ thing can be an overwhelming mission even for the most creative mind. One entrepreneur has journeyed away from the mainstream, meeting that challenge head on and creating a new niche [...]
Posted in Start-Up of the Week on Dec 8th, 2008
The affects of the Internet have been felt everywhere – from the way we listen to music and order food, to where we get our news and shop for shoes. It’s an amazing phenomenon! The digital highway has also had a profound impact on the publishing industry and not such a great one. [...]
Posted in Start-Up of the Week on Dec 1st, 2008
We often take for granted the intricacies of shipping. What appears seamless and efficient on the surface, shipping involves an endless array of complicated and intertwining processes. Here’s a glimpse… Say you own a flourishing outdoor sports retail chain with a handful of stores located across the U.S. You have inventory coming [...]
Posted in Start-Up of the Week on Nov 24th, 2008
There is an entire business sector out there often overlooked by analysts, investors and even entrepreneurs. It’s the creative industry (often referred to as the creative economy), which encompasses advertising, architecture, arts and crafts, film, music, design and so on. Across the globe creative services and products are worth an estimated $2.5 trillion, [...]
Posted in Start-Up of the Week on Nov 20th, 2008
The other day I heard a song on the radio that had me tapping my fingers on the steering wheel. It was one of those songs that make you want to get up and bust-a-move. It had a great beat and the singer was incredible. I didn’t know the words, but found myself humming [...]
Posted in Start-Up of the Week on Nov 10th, 2008
One of the biggest gripes I have is buying something that I am really excited about or in desperate need of, only to get it home and not be able to open it without having the local fire department bring over the Jaws of Life. Seriously. Why does it have to require the [...]
Posted in Business Extras on Nov 7th, 2008
There is one question above all others that I like to ask our featured Start-Ups of the Week: Is entrepreneurship something you are born with or is it something learned over time? Some strongly believe that entrepreneurs are born, not made; that you come into this world with the “bug,” the passion, the [...]
Posted in Start-Up of the Week on Oct 27th, 2008
The Internet is a big, bad place. Seriously. How many times have you clicked on a Web site only to have thirteen thousand pop-ups take over your screen even though you have a pop-up blocker enabled? Or what about the evil spyware that sneaks onto your computer and sends important information about [...]
