Good Morning Silicon Valley Early Edition had this interesting background on how SPAMMERS are really good @ Social Engineering - they get it!:
Spammers are a parasitic plague upon the Net, but when it comes to their mastery of social engineering and manipulation, sometimes you just have to stand back in admiration. One of the [...]

T.S. Elliot once wrote, “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
The nature of risk is constantly changing with increasing regularity. Back in the “old days,” risk was something to be avoided. In the golden age of “the man in the gray flannel suit,” people wanted [...]

How to value a website using unique visitors by Alx Klive
In most businesses it is fairly simple to establish an approximate valuation for a particular company.
There are known rules of thumb such as multiple x annual sales (typically 3-5 as the multiple) or multiple x annual profit (typically 12-15 as the multiple).
For web 2.0 [...]

In a discussion with investors Thursday 10/25/07, Eric Schmidt, Google’s CEO (also a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and a billionaire), made a couple of comments that nascent entrepreneurs should take to heart. In Yoga’s unique way of expressing himself, “it ain’t over..” My paraphrasing follows:

The technology industry is on the verge of another major shift, similar [...]

Meanwhile by Mary is a one-woman business located in Brookston, Indiana, about 13 miles north of Purdue University. Perhaps Brookston’s biggest claim to fame is their annual fall Apple Popcorn Festival. But Brookston also has another side - over the years several entrepreneurial startups have taken root in the Brookston area. The first that I [...]

Nintendo: Limit ‘Face Training’ to 15 min. to avoid overexertion

A new Nintendo DS game aims to give your smile a workout. But play more than 15 minutes and you may overexert your facial muscles, the company warns.
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TOKYO - Nintendo DS players in Japan can now exercise their facial muscles to have nicer [...]

Customers are the lifeblood of any company, especially startups. Good Morning Silicon Valley provided the following on how NOT to treat customers:
“Hours after Matt and Danelle Azola returned from their honeymoon this week, they had to evacuate their home in Ramona, Calif, just ahead of a wildfire. Their home was destroyed, and they set about [...]

Unlike all previous generations, the Net Generation was born with the Internet already on.  Don Tapscott , the writer of Growing Up Digital and Wikinomics, suggests the Net generation, that is, most readers of this blog, are multidimensional in their purchase decisions:
First of all, they want options. Thanks to the various TV channels, people have more [...]

A couple of weeks ago, we discussed a book named Marvelous Mercer by a 12 year old girl named Shea Megale, who has  spinal muscular atrophy. Mercer is her Canine Companion for Independence (CCI) assist dog and she writes stories about Mercer - doing the things she wishes she could do, and beyond. The original [...]

There’s a huge void in current research in entrepreneurship. What is this void you ask? Depending on the source of the data, about 75 million baby boomers in the US and in the neighborhood of 450 million world wide are about to make their presence known. Various governmental agencies are concerned about this group [...]