As outlined by Adam Holden-Bache recently on Social Media B2B , I’m convinced that business-to-business has more money and more untapped opportunities, along the following lines: Strategic partnerships. These days, I’m hearing more and more about Location-Based Services (LBS) as the next big opportunity for startups. Incentives or rewards. MORE >>

Online Sales Are (Really) Growing Online retail sales hit a robust $1 trillion worldwide in 2012 and are estimated to continue growing 10 percent per year through 2014. By 2014, analysts estimate that online shopping will account for 8 percent of total retail revenue in the U.S. Here are four reasons to reprioritize. Not convinced? MORE >>

Twitter, the latest social media darling, will approach the public markets in 2013. Contrary to widespread speculation that Twitter will file to go public in 2014, law firms and investments banks readying pitches to help take Twitter public say the IPO registration documents will be filed as early as the fourth quarter of this year. MORE >>

Tusar Barik, co-founder of Maiden Media Group, says he's excited his company now has more choices under the Affordable Care Act. In 2012, revenue was $650,000, and three hires brought total head count to 11. The average employee age is 25; co-founder Tusar Barik, 27, is the resident grayhair. The Kaiser Family Foundation estimates that 2.9 MORE >>

You can get 50 by scratching and clawing (see things that don’t scale) and 25 more with guest posts and social media. You can wait for MicroConf 2014 or check out MicroConf Europe in October. 'Jason Cohen led off the conference with a talk about building a “money machine” that brings in $10,000/mo. Jason crushed it. MORE >>