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January 8 — 09:39 AM

Focus, Focus, Focus

I had a great conversation with an entrepreneur yesterday.  He definitely has grande plans, though his plans included a number of different initiatives.  My simple advice to him was to focus on one opportunity and to go from there. With capital being tight and the economy slowing down, it pays to refocus your priorities on one [...]

January 7 — 12:51 PM

Don’t Get Caught Up

In customer budgeting cycles if you don’t have to!  If possible, you want to: Essentially, sell at just the right price point that your contact / champion can afford within his or her own budget.  You don’t want to get caught up in your customers annual budget cycle. Avoid having a price point that requires multiple reviews [...]

January 6 — 02:24 PM

New Startup Tech Jobs on nPost

Senior Network Engineer at Pandora Marketing Analyst at Redfin Search Technology Engineer at SimplyHired Partner Manager at SimplyHired Senior Software Engineer at Onvia Account Executive at Onvia Post Your Jobs Today >>>

January 5 — 08:23 AM

How Tech Savvy Are You

If you aren’t, should that keep you from starting your own company?  Personally, I don’t think so…  Obviously, it depends upon the type of service you are looking to provide, whether they be content, products, or services.  If content, then even the largest tech neophyte can have a site up and running within a mere [...]

January 3 — 11:35 AM

Raising Money in a Down Economy

From Mashable and posted by Eric Ries, the founder of IMVU.  Quick take-aways: Launch as early as you possibly can! Get out there and tell your story Hopefully, it will be as easy for you!

January 2 — 01:35 PM

The Force is Strong In You

Should you use Darth Vader’s approach to management?  Here is a small sampling: Use Fear. Yoda once said that “fear is the path to the Dark Side.” He couldn’t have been more right; however, his conclusions were wildly off base. Fear can be a great motivator, both for you and for those around you. [...]

January 2 — 10:35 AM

Real Venture Capital

Is “Real Venture Capital” (RVC) the best place for assets: RVC Is a Different Asset Class from MVC Real Venture Capital (RVC) is anything that takes a risk and works hard to create something fundamentally new. Many classic VC funds fall into this category. So do many angels. But I would also put entrepreneurs who bootstrap their [...]

December 31 , 2008 — 09:29 PM

Happy New Year

From the nPost team!

December 24 , 2008 — 07:59 AM

To Not Build a War Chest

A day late and a dollar short. So, entrepreneurs are supposed to go out and raise as much money as they possibly can?  How does that make sense over three months since the collapse of the capital markets?  Great idea.  Too bad, it wasn’t shared you know, when it could have been useful. While we wish [...]

December 23 , 2008 — 08:53 AM

Beat the Economic Heat: Use Cool APIs

Hi, this is Ike Singh with a guest post on how utilizing APIs has helped my company FilmJamr with faster, scalable, wondefully cheaper and reliable development of our films based social networking site. I’m sure most of you are familiar with the word: API (Application Programming Interface), so im not going to get into defining [...]

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