How to Bootstrap Your Business with No Money

June 18, 2012

You can start a business with nothing, but it takes a lot of skill to negotiate and create a vision of what your company will be for those employed and those investing.

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How to Run an Agency from Anywhere in the World

June 4, 2012

If you create and sell a creative or digital product, you could operate your business from anywhere in the world. So why don’t you? Here’s how one company does it from a remote location in Canada.

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5 Interview Questions that Always Return Great Answers

May 29, 2012

After years of interviewing and great advice from others, here are questions I always pull that consistently yield great answers.

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In a Post PC World, Hackability is the Future of Programming

May 22, 2012

Tech hacking may be under threat, but it’s being inspired by the maker movement.

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Jason Calacanis Explains How He Pivoted Mahalo

May 22, 2012

Here is some of my coverage of the 2012 Future Insights Live conference in Las Vegas where I was reporting for Dice and Dice News. Back in 2007, Jason Calacanis (@jason) started a human search-powered company called Mahalo (Mahalo on Wikpedia). It achieved a level of respectable success with 15M unique a month and $500K […]

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Some of the Best Techniques to Attract Top Tech Talent

May 22, 2012

What does it take to actually attract and pull in the very best tech talent? I didn’t know, so I asked the recruiter attendees at Talent Net Live at SXSW to tell me.

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The Most Creative Ad is Useless If I Never See It

May 14, 2012

One hour roundtable discussion of marketing issues of the week with host Bob Knorpp of “The BeanCast.”

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Apply Hackathon-Style Creativity and Productivity to Your Business

May 7, 2012

This article was originally a report published for Intertainment Media’s Ingaged Blog, makers and distributors of the KNCTR and Ortsbo. Hackathons are definitely the rage. Where else can a product, and sometimes an actual business be created in just 24-48 hours? A bunch of successful online services and products have been born out of hackathons. […]

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Your “How To” Guide to Repelling Talented Tech Pros

May 6, 2012

Are you making mistakes with your recruiting and you don’t even know it? At Talent Net Live at SXSW we asked some of the top recruiters what NOT to do when it comes to talent acquisition.

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When You Can Call Yourself an Influencer

April 23, 2012

What’s right and wrong about influencer measurement services, plus how can we appropriately identify and measure influence.

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