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Austin Business Journal:
An Austin entrepreneur plans to turn a parent’s struggle to keep up with baby gear into a new Web-based business.
Jeff Chambers, the founder of two technology companies, has launched Babyslist.
The venture is designed to help parents save money with an online marketplace for parents to swap, buy and sell used baby-related items from [...]
Springwise:
Loyalty programs have been around for years—as evidenced by the mass of cards weighing down many consumers’ wallets—but the difficulty of keeping track of them all can mean that consumers often don’t reap the rewards they’re entitled to.
Enter Perkler, an Australian site that just entered beta for the sole purpose of helping consumers get what [...]
Inc.:
Some of today’s hottest companies are virtual: They operate exclusively online, with employees and customers scattered all over the world. Yet to do business, these companies typically are still required by law to maintain a terrestrial office, to hold real-life board meetings, and to keep a paper trail made from dead trees.
That may soon change. [...]
San Francisco Chronicle:
Can President-elect Barack Obama save the economy? Well, it’s true that he has assembled a crackerjack team of economic advisers, but that’s only one way Obama can help America get back on track.
American entrepreneurs and salespeople of all stripes have recognized the opportunity in Obama’s win - namely, that anything associated with the [...]
Slashgear:
Treasure hunter Nathan Smith testifies that he used Google maps to find buried treasure in South Texas. Smith also monitored the treasures location with updated satellite images to ensure that no one was poking around long enough to gain legal rights to his findings.
The 39-year-old musician from Los Angeles located a 19h century boat, which [...]
USA TODAY:
Where everyone else sees economic gloom and doom, Reid Hoffman sees opportunity.
As the freshly minted CEO of LinkedIn (and its founder), he is shepherding a moneymaking tech company in battered Silicon Valley. And he anticipates more growth next year.
That is no small achievement. The social-networking site, which lets business professionals create online profiles to [...]
David Wallace At Search Engine Guide:
If you have yet to hear about Twitter, I might ask you if you have been living in a cave and for how long.
The micro-blogging platform that few knew about a year ago has now gone mainstream with over 6 million users - a number that is growing daily. Even [...]
InformationWeek:
Spending too much business time on the computer when you’re not at work? You’re not alone.
Small-business owners and managers, already tethered to their computers for long periods, are turning into “mouse potatoes,” increasingly eating and working while on their computers and while online, according to a survey released Tuesday by office supply retailer Staples.
After analyzing [...]
Starting a new business is hard but with the right information that business can get started off on the right foot. DM-Creative.com is dedicated to helping businesses get that help. Through pages of free information their website shares ideas on how other businesses may get started. For those that need a little [...]
If you run an online business, you need your traffic to convert into customers. If the traffic to customer ratio is too low, you won’t have a business for long.
The struggle to bring in traffic and convert those visitors into the customers you need is one that many businesses have to face. It’s [...]
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