Never Mind Marketing

Here’s a screenshot of how to disable Facebook Places (the new location based service where people can check in to locations using their mobile phones) from allowing others to tag your location without your consent. I would recommend you consider how you want this setting to suit your privacy preferences. Again, Facebook takes the opt-out [...]

Inc Magazine has has published a list of resources necessary to identify the best industries for starting a business today. Now, at VentureBeat, VC and former entrepreneur Don Rainey provides would-be entrepreneurs with a fantastic list of the eight things he wished he knew before starting a business. In short, successful projects show positive signs [...]

Just when you thought Facebook and privacy would be able to live happily ever after, founder Mark Zuckerberg and his team went ahead and introduced Facebook Places. The widely anticipated location-based service, which is sure to give Foursquare a run for its money (note that Places’ logo is a “4″ in a square), was announced [...]

You don’t have good ideas without first having a lot of dumb and crazy ones.

Fast Company has an infographic that provides a speedy snapshot of how efficiently different countries around the world innovate and the U.S. isn’t looking too hot. Each country is represented by a ratio of how many patents it granted and the total wad it blew on R & D. The post writes that, “even though [...]

That’s according to entrepreneur and VC Anthony Tijan, writing in a recent blog post for the Harvard Business Review. Tijan argues that while experience may be helpful in growing and sustaining a company, a certain amount of ignorance is necessary for generating new and novel ideas. As he puts it, “Being unencumbered by external opinions [...]

A Babson College estimate concluded that on average, with buying equipment, inventory, and paying employee salaries, it costs $65,000. The Wall Street Journal decided that sounded a little high – and sought out examples of extreme bootstrapping. Its findings? Launching an impressive business on $100 is absolutely possible. Kael Robinson did it (she only sunk [...]

Better idea generation. There are two types of successful entrepreneurs — those who are aware of limitations and embrace constraints, becoming more creative as a result, and those who are unaware of their constraints and external realities, and therefore generate ideas freely. Those in the latter camp are especially capable of developing a fanatical passion [...]

Mashable lists some tricks to help you convert browsers into buyers. The post suggests paying for unique, custom photography rather than relying on stock images, getting creative with bold typography, and incorporating some sort of call to action. If you’re hungry for more advice on putting together a stellar website, Inc. has more tips from [...]

Jay Goltz ponders the question, “are salespeople overpaid?”, in a New York Times’s blog post. He tells a story of a boss (and his wife) touring his top salesperson’s lavish new home, which was nicer, his wife noted, than the boss’s own. Bitterness, and harsh words, ensued. But Goltz says that if a solid commission [...]