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Startup Location Is Still A Critical Success Factor

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Phoenix, Arizona, where I live. billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana. get the attention of the market they choose.

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Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Check Out Stanzr

ReadWriteStart

It is also an excellent platform to address the questions from prospects and help clarify issues and objections for any sales process, which is one of the primary ways Voluble is seeing some of its major early customers using it. The next event will be on Tuesday, November 22, 2011, at 8:00 AM (PDT), register to attend here.

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Social Commerce: What It Is, What It Isn’t and Why You Should Care

ConversionXL

Recently, Facebook has doubled down on social commerce. and even Messenger is being used by companies to interact with consumers (both pre- and post-sale). Experiment to see what works for you, but remember that Facebook is a social network and not everyone is sold on this social commerce concept, yet.

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Crowdfunding Bill Stuck in the Senate

Scott Edward Walker

House of Representatives overwhelming passed the Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act , a crowdfunding bill which permits startups to offer and sell securities via crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter or social networking sites like Facebook.

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Crowdfunding Update: FAQ’s for Entrepreneurs

Scott Edward Walker

2930 (the “Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act”), a crowdfunding bill that will allow startups to offer and sell securities via crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter and social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. Yes, on November 2nd, Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts introduced S.1791 What Should Startups Do?

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Is the House Crowdfunding Bill Being Killed in the Senate?

Scott Edward Walker

“The Senate is the place where bills go to die.” – Bill Maher On November 3, 2011, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 407-17 to pass the “Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act,” a crowdfunding bill which permits startups to offer and sell securities via crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter or social networking sites like Facebook.

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

She is an award winning journalist and author of two critically acclaimed books, "Once Youre Lucky, Twice Youre Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0" (Gotham Books, May 2008) and "Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky: How the Top 1% of Entrepreneurs Profit from Global Chaos" (Wiley, February 2011). Open Sesame! (A By Richard Nieva.