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| Startup Addict Musings |
| Startup and business advice. We are all here for a reason and we are all meant to be great. Greatness is not always indicative of fame and fortune; it is much simpler than that. You become great by conjuring up your most passionate idea and stop at nothing until you blaze a path for all to follow. Dream Big * Be Great. |
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| Doba vs Shopster |
| 2008-12-23 11:24:30 |
Anyone who has inquired about getting into the drop shipping arena has probably asked themselves about......
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| Turning around a failing business |
| 2008-12-09 09:24:52 |
Turning around a failing business is one of Startup Addict Musings more popular posts and a few folks commented it was a bit too qualitative for their needs. I decided to write a part II to the article and add more tangible solutions.
If your business is failing it’s most likely due to one of these [...]......
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| Jing Project rocks |
| 2008-11-29 12:16:24 |
I recently came across the Jing Project and was a breath of fresh (I mean free) air for screen capture. If you other bloggers and guerrilla marketing gurus have been on the hunt for an affordable and realiable screen capture look no further. I am still on road otherwise I would have taken the time [...]......
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| Podcasts for designers and developers |
| 2008-11-28 11:48:16 |
Podcasts for designers and developers
I am traveling for Turkey-day and loaded up my ipod touch with an array of podcasts from one of my favorite resource sites– Smashing Magazine. I wanted to bone up on a few adobe products per the CS4 release and added some great podcasts for graphic designers and web developers. The [...]......
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| Ideas for small business |
| 2008-11-24 16:25:12 |
Ideas for small business startups in 2009 may have you stumped, but don’t despair the current economic climate may be the best time to get your startup rolling. To get your creative juices following for business ideas lets start by sector.
Alternative Energy / Green Products
Virtual worlds & Economies
Home care and Non Medical Services
Healthy lifestyle [...]......
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| Amazon Startup Challenge |
| 2008-11-16 14:21:10 |
The Amazon Startup Challenge is down to seven finalists clawing for the $100,000 grand prize. As most of you know, I’m a huge fan of Amazon Web Services and startups that leverage the low cost - high scalability services. The seven finalists chosen by Amazon have truly interesting business models.
Encoding.com has transformed video encoding [...]......
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| Content Rich - SEO Copywriting |
| 2008-11-06 15:13:33 |
I just finished reading Content Rich “Writing your Way to Wealth on the Web”. The author and fellow entrepreneur Jon Wuebben tackles an enormous amount of material pertaining to SEO copywriting. He demonstrates the topics and techniques in an easy to understand language. The book is adequate for the novice or experienced copywriter but shines [...]......
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| Buying a second business |
| 2008-10-28 19:03:55 |
Buying a second business is an appropriate topic in these tumultuous economic times. The savvy entrepreneur should v......
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| 10 traffic generation tips |
| 2008-10-21 19:30:38 |
The top ten traffic generation tips is one of the more popular requests from readers (actually traffic generation in general, I just chose to make it a top ten). I find this list can be about 10% subjective but will work for 90% of the blogging crowd who wish to drive more traffic. These are [...]......
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| Biodiesel demystified |
| 2008-09-09 20:00:20 |
Being in the construction and real estate industry Biodiesel has come on strong as an alternative energy source. This time last year the general population barely heard of the word. Now, more than ever it is on every companies road map, especially in construction.
There are some misconceptions and myths regarding what biodiesel is and [...]......
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| Franchising startups are on a tear |
| 2008-08-16 09:03:52 |
If you’re trying to decide on a Franchising startup, you may want to consider focusing a business model aimed at baby boomers. Fitness centers, spas, senior care services and coffee shops are among the leading franchises. If you are an entrepreneur that is industry agnostic and just want to make money then consider the [...]......
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| Lively by Google |
| 2008-08-16 08:32:20 |
Lively by Google is a new asocial network that is set in the 3D virtual world, very similiar to second life. The power of lively is that it ties into your Google account. My interest in Lively is how it came in to existence and where it is going from a monetization standpoint. The original [...]......
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| Web Publishing via Crowdfusion |
| 2008-08-10 22:32:24 |
Crowdfusion is on the move with $3 Million in the coffers from the likes of Marc Andreessen, Velocity Interactive Group and Greycroft Partners. The startup is attempting to be the next standard for “web publishing” (Think what wordpress did for blogging). There is a tremendous amount of buzz on this startup particularly because Andreeseen is [...]......
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| Doba Review part IV - case study |
| 2008-07-31 15:56:48 |
The final chapter in my Doba review Study">case study is finally here. If you missed any of the previous segments feel free to catchup below:
Doba Review part I
Doba Review Part II
Doba Review Part III
The purpose of the case study was to test whether Doba is worth the upfront fee and/or monthly investment for an entrepreneur [...]......
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| It’s so Cuil. |
| 2008-07-28 18:32:03 |
Cuil is a new search kid on the block and supposedly the next Google Killer. The founders of Cuil, pronounced cool, (actually Gaelic for knowledge) have one good reason to tout their startup search engine is better than Google….they use to work there! Tom Costello and Anna Patterson are the husband and wife team behind [...]......
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| Startup ideas and trends |
| 2008-07-20 08:55:41 |
If your searching for your next startup idea or attempting to capitalize on trends, Paul Graham from YCombinator came up with a nice top 30 ideas he would be willing to fund.
1. A cure for the disease of which the RIAA is a symptom.
2. Simplified browsing.
3. New news.
4. Outsourced IT.
5. Enterprise software 2.0.
6. More variants [...]......
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| 3 steps to Improving Business Profitability |
| 2008-07-09 19:27:26 |
Cutting Business Overhead
Overhead is the 600lb gorilla you have to reduce to a chimpanzee. In order to cut business overhead and run a healthy business you need to know your fixed and variable costs. There are two fundamental steps that can be taken to improve profitability in this category. The first is fixed cost, [...]......
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| Triple-Net Leases NNN |
| 2008-07-08 17:39:50 |
I have been working on several commercial real estate projects that utilize triple-net leases (NNN). A tip out of the gate is be careful the prospective tenants possess a clear understanding of triple net leases and what is involved.
There is really not a tremendous amount of mystique behind the NNN, other than a symbol [...]......
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| Biodiesel from algae |
| 2008-07-03 17:02:52 |
Biodiesel from algae continues to be all the rage. One company I stumbled across has as much potential as Sapphire Energy, Live Fuels and Green Fuel Technologies in my opinion. Solix is a Biofuel company that descended from U.S. Department of Energy’s Aquatic Species Program started in 1978 to explore ways to produce Biodiesel from [...]......
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| Does your Startup need Video? |
| 2008-07-02 22:42:40 |
For all you entrepreneurs looking to incorporate video in your websites or blogs, a new CDN (content distribution network) known as Magnify might be the answer. Magnify enables the following:
• Enterprise strength video discovery
• Full suite of social media tools
• Automated video relevance
• Advertiser safe curation
• Free upload, hosting, and page layout
The social media features [...]......
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| Google’s Ad planner service |
| 2008-07-01 08:00:15 |
Google Ad Planner service fleshes out the suite of web analytic tools and does so at a great price — free. On June 24, big “G” announced Ad planner as new service aimed at media planners. The service will allow media planners to find target audiences easily based on demographic information, site traffic and other [...]......
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| Conversion killers for your landing page |
| 2008-06-25 17:15:00 |
Landing pages are constructed for higher website conversions from targeted visitors. Your landing page audience is searching for a specific product or service via keywords in organic or PPC campaigns and need to be convinced they have arrived at the most relevant destination. There are numerous landing page techniques and conversion killers but I am [...]......
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| 92 percent of developers ignoring Microsoft |
| 2008-06-18 21:08:05 |
Steve Ballmer thought otherwise, but all I have to say after watching these two clips is
Laughter, Laughter, Laughter….
For more info on why developers are giving Vista the cold shoulder head on over to CNET......
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| Spam injection in RSS Feed |
| 2008-06-18 20:38:22 |
For those of you subscribed to the Startup Addict Musings RSS Feed — I thank you. For those of you who stayed with the RSS feed after a nasty bout of spam injection — I commend you. I know what your thinking, spam injection sounds like a bad case of the clap but I assure [...]......
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| Virtual LLCs legal in Vermont |
| 2008-06-18 20:04:56 |
Vermont my neighbor state is known for being a little different and you can add requirements for Limited Liability Company formation to the list. Apparently on June 6th a bill was signed that will no longer require LLCs to have a physical address (in Vermont anyway). This trumps Delaware in startup friendly law and will [...]......
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| Algae-based fuel is startup central |
| 2008-06-15 18:41:32 |
Algae based fuel startups are now running the gamut of most biofuels. Ranging from biodiesel, gasoline, jetfuel to ethanol (a lot cheaper than the corn derivative to boot). Fortune Magazine did a nice piece on “The next big thing in energy: Pond scum? stating the trials and tribulations of Cambridge, MA based GreenFuel Technologies. [...]......
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| Top 50 Ad Networks |
| 2008-06-14 16:57:35 |
You will probably be as surprised as I was when you see some of the names in the The top 50 ad Network according to comscore
The top 10 Ad Focus properties also maintained their February rankings with Platform-A, the ad network combining Advertising.com, Tacoda, AOL, and Quigo, leading the ranking in March, reaching 91 [...]......
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| Viral Marketing is all the rage |
| 2008-06-09 22:00:31 |
Every Entrepreneur needs to master the ever evolving and elusive viral marketing secrets that turn startups into legends. First, lets make sure we are all on the same page in our terminology. Wikipedia has one of the best technical definitions of Viral Marketing:
Viral marketing and viral advertising refer to marketing techniques that use pre-existing social [...]......
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| Wamp server problem solved. |
| 2008-06-08 17:08:52 |
Any technology problem that swallows endless hours of my time, compels me to post solutions so someone else can avoid the same pitfalls. Wamp server is an apache, php, mysql bundle for dynamic website development (a localhost environment). The problem I ran into was I could not browse my local host or load phpmyadmin. It [...]......
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| Carbon Emission Reduction is next commodity! |
| 2008-06-08 10:11:56 |
We all know that “green” is the new “black” and social responsibility for climate change is becoming everyone’s duty. The reality is carbon emission reductions and other climate change agenda will be a result of the next financial revolution and windfall profits rather than a social duty to reducing our carbon footprint on the planet. [...]......
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| Entrepreneurs head to RaiseCapital |
| 2008-06-03 21:43:08 |
I receive a fair amount of solicitations for free plugs but when Maureen Mecke from 5W Public Relations sent one for RaiseCapital. I felt it was right for this audience. RaiseCapital is like the funding section on StartupAddict.com, it gives entrepreneurs the ability to find the ever “elusive” startup funding.
According to the 5W Public [...]......
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| Facebook goes open source –Kinda |
| 2008-06-03 06:18:35 |
Facebook announces the “Facebook Open Platform” for developers on the anniversary of its’ platform launch.
The facebook developer blog stated:
It’s been quite a year, with over 24,000 applications built on the platform and over 400,000 developers building new social experiences. We see about 140 applications added to our directory per day, and nearly all of [...]......
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