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Twitter Link Roundup #176 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

Five Branding Mistakes That Will Cripple Your Small Business (and how to avoid making them) – [link]. 5 Hiring Mistakes That Can Crush Your Company’s Culture – [link]. “So many folks in the venture capital business are sheep that just want to follow the herd. – [link]. ” – [link].

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

Microsofts originalplan was to make money selling programming languages, of all things.Their current business model didnt occur to them until IBM droppedit in their lap five years later. One of the best tricks I learned during our startup was a rule for deciding who to hire. For business people its roulette.

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