start up Archives

New York: The Startup Founder’s Hotspot

The Big Apple: A Startup Hotspot Worth the Look Forget about Silicon Valley, it’s all about Silicon Alley now. New York is the start-up founder’s ultimate destination right now as more and more businesses are...

byNeoMam Studios

June 23, 2015

Entrepreneurial success: what it takes to get there

Entrepreneurial success: Getting there Succeeding as an entrepreneur takes much more than just a bankable business idea. Start-ups face highly unstable conditions, and entrepreneurs striving for success need to persevere in the face of uncertainty....

byCarlos Baradello

March 23, 2015

Why every startup should have a baby boomer on the team

Startups and Baby Boomers: What's the connection? American Express’s Open Forum has advised that companies may want to hire an older worker over a younger one because of their “strong work ethic, loyalty and communications...

byYaniv Vardi

November 24, 2014

How to Compete with the Big Guys

In talking with a group of start ups recently, I got into the discussion of how small businesses can compete against larger companies that have a great deal of process and marketing power behind them....

byVerticalResponse

May 22, 2009

Important Contract Terms, Part I: Indemnify this.

One of the mainstays of my practice is writing, or reviewing and revising, contracts for my clients. Often, I am revising contract terms written by my client or another business person, and so, understandably, key...

byJessica Eaves Mathews

November 12, 2008

Now I’m the Expert

Have you got those calls yet? You know, the calls or the in-the-grocery-store chats from your old co-workers, or ex-bosses who are looking at their jobs and thinking maybe the security of a full-time job wasn't...

byStartupStella

October 7, 2008

Did I Just Get an Eye Roll?

Labor Day weekend is coming, which means the in-laws are coming--or as I like to call them the out-laws. My hubby's parents are great people, but after I quit work to devote time to my...

byStartupStella

August 25, 2008

Don’t Expose Your Assets!

There you are. You just finished reading Rich and Jeff Sloan’s book and you are fired up! You have an idea that you are certain will make make the invention of those small yellow sticky...

byJessica Eaves Mathews

May 31, 2008

Former Microsoft blogger Robert Scoble has got it goin’ on

Uber blogger Robert Scoble announced last month that he was leaving the "comfy?" corporate world of Microsoft to join a startup - mentioned us in his blog Scobleizer. Now here's a great example of an...

byJoel Welsh

July 21, 2006

StartupNation is JOM’n

Have you joined the StartupNation community yet? We're the nation's fastest growing online group of people starting and growing their dream business. Over a thousand of you have been one of the first to join...

byJoel Welsh

May 25, 2006

The absolute number one best business to start

Full service car wash. You see, you probably thought I'd wimp out and not really name one. I mean come on, how can you pick just one business that's the best for everyone. Isn't it...

byJoel Welsh

March 15, 2006

Cool Company of the day: Foot Petals

This one was recommended by a StartupNation community member with sore feet apparently - a problem a lot of women (and men) deal with. The Cool Company of the day is Foot Petals, the brainchild...

byRich Sloan

March 3, 2006

Let the Prediction Market give you that next great business idea

Chuck, the StartupNation Online Marketing Director is ahead of me by 120 spots in the standings. Our COO John has joined the game but not yet made his predictions. I think he's afraid that Chuck...

byJoel Welsh

January 31, 2006

Why more people will start up

Have you read the most recent BLS report? If you're like most people, you don't even know what a BLS report is! BLS stands for "Bureau of Labor Statistics," and this government office puts out...

byRich Sloan

December 8, 2005

Incredible outpouring of help

We owe a BIG thanks to the people who stepped up last week as volunteers to test drive our soon-to-be-released "10 Steps to Start Up" online process. You know who you are--BRAVO!!! We'll be working...

byRich Sloan

August 2, 2005

Knowing the right moment to start up your dream business

How do you know the right moment to actually make the leap--to start your dream business? One of our best friends is a woman--we'll call her "Jan" for privacy--who works for a big corporation in...

byRich Sloan

July 26, 2005

Desire

I was a bright-eyed 15 year old at the Detroit Auto Show in 1995 when a then-conceptual Audi TT was on display. "I will have that car by the time I'm 21," I told myself....

byJonathan Hudson

July 25, 2005

Start Your Dream Business Through Your Own Daily Experiences

The inspiration for starting a business can come from so many different sources. It happens every day and very often it is spawned from our daily experiences. The two inventor winners from our StartupNation/INPEX promotion,...

byJoel Welsh

June 9, 2005

Entrepreneurs that LOVE America

If you've ever traveled overseas, you might agree: we believe there's no country on earth that sets the table for entrepreneurs quite like America. Faisal Hazime knows this. We snapped this photo of him (with...

byRich Sloan

June 2, 2005

Careful if you’re seated next to a Sloan brother!

We were on a bunch of flights last week on our book tour, Everywhere we went, we asked people if they've got a good idea for a business. Pretty much EVERYONE said, "yes." But they...

byRich Sloan

May 31, 2005