en•tre•pre•neur -noun Entrepreneur, translated from its French roots, means "one who undertakes." The term Entrepreneur is used to refer to anyone who undertakes the organization and management of an enterprise involving independence and risk as well as the opportunity for profit.
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Entrepreneurs, investors, startups, and techies alike gathered in San Francisco on Friday, January 8th at the 3rd Annual Crunchies Awards – a competition and award ceremony that recognizes and celebrates the most compelling internet and technology innovations and startups of the year. Web users cast over 500,000 votes for the 109 finalists, all vying for [...]
Twitter lists have been available for a couple of months now and when they were introduced were considered to be a significant step forward for the fluttering bird. In this way, you could organize your interaction and group together people who you were interested in or following according to genres or other categorization. When you [...]
What does it take to be a truly successful female entrepreneur?
Really, it just takes the same level of determination, range of skills (or the willingness to acquire them) and level of single-mindedness possessed by all successful business people, whether male or female. All entrepreneurs begin with a dream, but what sets the successful ones [...]
Recently I was lucky enough to catch up with Afsoun Yazdian for an interview. Afsoun is the founder and CEO of GoGoLingo.com. GoGo Lingo is an online site offering second language teaching to children.
Adam: You began GoGo Lingo.com as a school project. How did the project develop into the business it is today?
Afsoun: I was [...]
Each January, Management Today’s comprehensive analysis of the vibrant entrepreneurial scene in the UK is eagerly awaited. The list should represent more of a celebration than usual this year as the list surely represents more than just a list of survivors in this brutal economy, rather those that have beaten the odds and risen without [...]
Over the last few weeks we have been asking you “What’s been the best Social Media marketing channel for a business and why?”
Thanks to everyone who entered this months poll, the overall winner was Twitter, followed closely by Facebook.
Here are your answers to “What’s been the best Social Media marketing channel for a business and [...]
These days we hear it being shouted from the rooftops – if you are in business, you must engage in social media marketing. Few organizations worth their salt have considered and subsequently dismissed social media as a new aid for marketing and as the spectrum continues to improve we are seeing reports and software solutions [...]
When times are really hard, it seems that we spend an inordinate amount of time just worrying about the very survival of our company. Sometimes it seems as if we are afraid to breathe, unless another one of those “shoes” will drop.
While the people who hold the purse strings may be watching the falling footwear [...]
“A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well,” – Jeff Bezos
They say that, as a toddler, Jeff Bezos tried to take apart his crib with a screwdriver and it was this thirst for knowledge, apparent at even this early age, that [...]
Okay, let’s have a show of hands? Who here is tired of hearing about a recession? I thought so, almost everyone. If you think that our 24-hour exposure to news channels has helped to exacerbate the recent downturn and that those analysts just tend to over analyze, then you are not alone. Regardless of how [...]
It’s time for a poll update, and this month we’re asking, “What’s been the best Social Media marketing channel for a business and why?”
Twitter took 2009 by storm when entrepreneurs around the globe began using this viral form of social media to promote and spread the word about their business, products and services.
Facebook Fan Pages [...]
If your online efforts are stuck in a rut, you have spent a lot of time and effort in perfecting the appearance and feel of your website, but your visitor traffic has plateaued, then it is time for a boost and to think outside of the box for a change. We live in great times, [...]
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