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Don't Let Your Bad Brochures Screw Your Business
Brochures are used to raise public awareness for your product. A perfectly done brochure can give a good and lasting impression to potential customers, which can automatically translate to sales. Here are some of the reasons why you should have a brochure for your business: [read more]
Audio Archive: Hire More Staff or Contract Out?
Hire More Staff or Contract Out? A Question for Every Small BusinessSponsored by... For entrepreneurs with the right strategy, this is an exciting year to launch a new business with high growth potential. Our panel of experts will show you innovative ways of finding funding including crowd funding, private investment, Internet-based... [read more]
Venture Capitalists and Entrepreneurs Meet at the UVA Venture Summit 2012
“Welcome to the University of Virginia’s Annual Venture Summit, where venture capitalists and alumni from top investment firms across the nation join with innovative researchers, academics and students to share a discourse about the frontiers of fields where the future is shaped.” [read more]
A Start-Up Nightmare: the Department of Labor Audit and How to Avoid It
One of my most painful memories in business way the four days I survived a New York State Department of Labor audit of my employees (that would be one, me.) Talk about butt-twisting agony. With that in mind, I’ve been very conservative about how I designate Independent Contractors at Social Media Today. This issue has never been more important, as business become more virtual and task-driven. [read more]
Taking a Leap of Faith: Becoming a Full-Time Entrepreneur
One of the most difficult and stressful decisions you can make is to leave the security you have as a full-time employee and devote all your energy to your own business. The promise of dreams and the prospect of defeat fight each other continually as you plan the transition from what you’ve known to the unknown. [read more]
Lessons Learned: Mistakes from Past Ventures that I Won’t Be Making Again
I'm a serial entrepreneur. Making mistakes is the best way to learn, but by passing some of these lessons on to you, you may be able to avoid making the same ones I did. [read more]
Audio Archive: The Revolution in Venture Funding
The Revolution in Venture FundingSponsored by... For entrepreneurs with the right strategy, this is an exciting year to launch a new business with high growth potential. Our panel of experts will show you innovative ways of finding funding including crowd funding, private investment, Internet-based campaigns, and traditional... [read more]
The Seventh Annual Small Business Summit--MVP Readers Free Passes
MyVenturePad is pleased to offer a handful of free passes to the first 20 people who register to attend the Seventh Annual Small Business Summit on March 6th, Tuesday, in New York City. If you miss the first 20, the following 50 people get a discounted offer of $49 (reduced from $149) with our unique code. This is an offer for our readers to help you attend. Please leave a comment below once you've registered, telling us what you hope to gain from the event. [read more]
The Revolution in Venture Funding
Join us March 7th at 3pm ET to learn innovative ways to find funding, including crowd funding, private investment, Internet-based campaigns, and traditional venture capital. The social web is drastically changing the way young companies get noticed, monetized, and begin to grow, and we'll show you how to participate. [read more]
An Apparel Company Manufacturing in China Grows with its Values
Five years ago, Jasmine Fullman's husband, Mike, was a marketing director for a technology company. She was a stay-at-home mom, but began to notice black bags of scrap materials outside of textile factories and decided to design some clutches that could be made from the fragments she found. “It was huge for me as an artist living there where you can have any kind of a sample made within 24 hours,” she says. [read more]
10 Steps to Boost Your Webinar Registration and Attendance
Have you used webinars lately to nurture your audience? They’re a great tool to engage an audience with your content and your brand – if you can get people to register and attend. It can be difficult to get very busy people to open an email and commit themselves to an hour-long webinar. [read more]
5 Tips for Bootstrapping a College Web Based Business
Greg Muender is President of Ticket Kick, a California company that helps drivers get <a href=”http://www.ticketkick.com/red-light-camera-tickets/”>red light tickets</b>, <a href=”http://www.ticketkick.com”>speeding tickets</b> and other traffic tickets dismissed by helping drivers through the <a href=”http://www.ticketkick.com/how-it-works/”>trial by written declaration</b> process. The company, which formally launched in 2010 after providing similar services since 2006, is the leading company in this space and growing rap [read more]
Holy Health Care, Batman, Small Business Needs Help!
If you are, like me, trying to run a small business which attracts leading talent, you are also faced with the growing challenge of providing benefits that make choosing your company over, say, IBM, more attractive. Beyond the external costs, the administrative burden of managing the choice of insurers, especially when you have employees in different states and with different health needs, is becoming ever more complex and demanding. [read more]
Got In On Groupon's IPO? Will You Sell?
After its IPO today Groupon is still up from its initial price of $20, but will it hold? If you bought, are you planning to flip your shares soon? [read more]
Why Google Apps and Plus is Valuable for Small Business: You Don't Know What You Don't Know
Google announced today on their blog that Google+ will now work with Google Apps, meaning businesses and schools that use Google Apps for email can get onto Google Plus and all the sharing it offers. This is a big step in getting the business world online for internal communications. [read more]
Conscious Commuter on Partnering to Bring Innovative Electric Bikes to Market
We met with the team behind the Conscious Commuter folding electric bikes after their panel on transportation at SXSWeco. They recently successfully completed (and exceeded) a Kickstarter campain to raise $25,000. Here they describe the startup process, electric bike use worldwide, and the importance of providing people with an option for the first and last mile of a commute. [read more]
Scott Anderson of The Green Skeptic on Clean Tech at SXSWeco
We met with Scott Edward Anderson, founder of The Green Skeptic, after his panel ECO-nomics: Re-envisioning Financial Services for the 21st Century, at SXSWeco 2011. Here he discusses Solyndra, how AirBnB is a clean tech company, and the politicization of tech. [read more]
William Shutkin on Entrepreneurship and Green Education at Presidio Graduate School
We met with William Shutkin, President and CEO of Presidio Graduate School, after his presentation on the panel Training the New Generation of Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs at SXSWeco 2011. [read more]
Ranking Green Business School Programs at Beyond Grey Pinstripes, SXSWeco [Video]
We caught up with Judy Samuelson, Executive Director of the Business and Society Program at Aspen Institute, after the panel Training the New Generation of Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs at SXSWeco 2011. She created the Business and Society Program in 1998. Here she describes Beyond Grey Pinstripes (www.beyondgreypinstripes.org), the Aspen Institute's interactive site which ranks business schools on their green programs. [read more]
Stuart Decew of Yale on Business Education and Entrepreneurship at SXSWeco [Video]
We sat down with Stuart Decew of the Yale Center for Business and the Environment at SXSWEco 2011 to talk about the future of business education. [read more]
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