Two campaign seasons ago, a group of young staffers schooled in new media helped President Barack Obama win office. Now according to The Wall Street Journal some have left politics behind and are using similar skills, plus lessons learned on the campaign trail, to start their own entrepreneurial ventures. One even funded his start-up by […]
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Getting laid off from a job is never easy, however Dana Ostomel was able to take that experience and turn it into a positive reports The Huffington Post. In her bright Midtown Manhattan apartment, Ostomel started Deposit a Gift, an online cash gift registry service that lets friends and family contribute cash toward honeymoons, home
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Patents are at the heart of countless technologies, and that can make life difficult for smaller startups, which are less likely than big companies to be patent-holders themselves. Trendspotter Springwise reports aiming to create opportunity, innovation and new businesses in southern Sweden, the Mobile Heights Business Center is a partnership between local industry, academia and
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AFP reports Pop music icon Madonna will launch a chain of fitness clubs, with the first to open in Mexico City next month, her business partners in the new venture announced. Our goal is to create an environment inspired by Madonna’s vision and high standards of what the ideal gym would be,” said Mark Mastrov,
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Rosalind Resnick over at The Wall Street Journal has these year-end survival strategies to get you through January 2011. 1. Retool your business plan. The economy has changed, and your company has to change with it. Take whatever isn’t working and scrap it. If you haven’t looked at your business plan since you first wrote
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Steve Tobak over at The CBS Business Network says not to quit your day job yet. 1. Being your own boss and not having to kowtow to anyone. There’s no shortage of bosses and people you have to kowtow to when you’re an entrepreneur. Depending on your situation, there are investors, customers, partners, and here’s
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The annual Startup School, put on by the Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students and Y-Combinator, featured founders and investors in Dinkelspiel Auditorium. More than 800 prospective entrepreneurs attended reports The Stanford Daily. The day’s list of speakers included Silicon Valley heavyweights such as Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, Reid Hoffman ‘89, founder
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The first thing that Cathrine Ann admits is that, “I’m totally phony.” From hair extensions to plastic surgery, there isn’t much left that you could call authentic. The one thing that is not fake? Her new book, Beautiful Buttons: A Memoir of Survival and Triumph. She has no real secrets there reports The Globe and
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“Do you possess the “entrepreneur gene?” asks Sharon Nunes, writing for Businessweek. Nunes is vice-president of Smarter Cities Strategy & Solutions at IBM. That’s a common quandary for people I know, especially those who work at large companies. Creativity is key to being a successful entrepreneur–from how you run your business with slim resources to
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