3 Questions To Start Up Your Mornings
A new company takes care to plan their start-up phase very carefully. It’s the beginning, and setting direction is important. And every day we startup ourselves, but perhaps don’t usually think much about it. Is there any guidance for entrepreneurs on how to kick off a new day? And can these tactics be used by […]
Read MoreStartup Rockstars 8 Announced – Washington DC
Startup Rockstars #8 will be in Washington DC, on March 3, 2010. The line-up of presenters for the first Startup Rockstars event this year will be announced later this month, along with other participants in the event. The location is Latham & Watkins, in downtown DC. The sign-up for the event will be available on Eventbrite […]
Read MoreFollow List For Startups & Small Biz on Twitter
Here are some tweeples on Twitter who tweet about startups. Follow at your own risk – we think they are currently some of the best out related to starting and growing your business. The list was started before there were Twitter lists, and future versions will be put in places such as our twitter lists. The criteria for […]
Read MoreHappy New Year 2010!
As we close out 2009, best wishes in 2010 to all of the people who helped up this year… the presenters, the audience (& their questions!), the people viewing the live streams, the sponsors, and everyone who gave ideas & inspiration!
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Motivational Mondays #2 – Bias Towards Action
Being motivated and taking action on your motivation are often two different areas. Motivation is a feeling you can have. Action is actual activity that brings results (positive & negative). Many are motivated, many dream, and relatively few take action. Anyone can have a lull in the action, and sometimes it just takes listening to […]
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DC Startup Showcase List 2009
This list is an attempt to round up in one place a snapshot of the DC and metropolitan Maryland & Northern Virginia startup presentations & demos that took place in 2009. If you are a tech startup (or thinking of starting): you can plug in now into the Mid-Atlantic region’s growing community, including events every […]
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Startup News, Videos & Blog Posts Roundup: demos, creativity, innovation
Tuesdays are startup news days here. This week the attention is on the DEMO event, which is being streamed live. Our own Startup Rockstars alumni Diditz is there, along with dozens of other startups. (see articles at the bottom of the post) And in other news, the economy (at least in the US) continues to […]
Read MorePitching Your Product, Service, Company Or Yourself, On TV
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- September 17, 2009
- 9 to 5
- audience tickets
- cable show
- Danish
- demo
- entrepreneurs
- get on tv show
- haro
- independent film
- Letterman
- Manhattan
- media
- New York City
- NYC
- oprah
- own tv show
- pitching
- product
- quiz
- QVC
- Rachel Ray
- reality show
- record contract
- service
- Sheena Easton
- sponsor
- startup
- Susan Harrow
- telebrands
- tickets
- tv
- tv commercial
- tv tickets
- wayne's world
I’ve been on TV! Okay, not in any high-visibility sense, just stuff like local man-in-the-street footage, or lost in the crowd during a camera pan on the David Letterman show, etc. It’s not something that was sought out. But, that might change, and so lately some research on the subject has been done. As a […]
Read MoreStartup News, Videos & Blog Posts Roundup
Tuesday is startup news day… here’s a round-up of stories relating to startups: StartupDay 2009 – found via this Seattle news/blog post, the event is a “conference for pre-entrepreneurs interested in founding or joining a tech startup“. It happens on Sept 26 in Seattle, Washington and is organized by Seattle 2.0. TechCrunch50 is today (and […]
Read MoreBusiness Success Videos – Motivational Mondays
Motivational Mondays kicks off with some videos from TED, a conference dedicated to “ideas worth spreading”, and with a video from down under. Success is a continuous journey – Richard St. John – talks at a TED event about success in terms of learning and re-building… an initial “success” is not the end-game. The video […]
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