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January 5 — 08:23 AM

How Tech Savvy Are You

If you aren’t, should that keep you from starting your own company?  Personally, I don’t think so…  Obviously, it depends upon the type of service you are looking to provide, whether they be content, products, or services.  If content, then even the largest tech neophyte can have a site up and running within a mere [...]

January 3 — 11:35 AM

Raising Money in a Down Economy

From Mashable and posted by Eric Ries, the founder of IMVU.  Quick take-aways: Launch as early as you possibly can! Get out there and tell your story Hopefully, it will be as easy for you!

January 2 — 01:35 PM

The Force is Strong In You

Should you use Darth Vader’s approach to management?  Here is a small sampling: Use Fear. Yoda once said that “fear is the path to the Dark Side.” He couldn’t have been more right; however, his conclusions were wildly off base. Fear can be a great motivator, both for you and for those around you. [...]

January 2 — 10:35 AM

Real Venture Capital

Is “Real Venture Capital” (RVC) the best place for assets: RVC Is a Different Asset Class from MVC Real Venture Capital (RVC) is anything that takes a risk and works hard to create something fundamentally new. Many classic VC funds fall into this category. So do many angels. But I would also put entrepreneurs who bootstrap their [...]

December 31 , 2008 — 09:29 PM

Happy New Year

From the nPost team!

December 24 , 2008 — 07:59 AM

To Not Build a War Chest

A day late and a dollar short. So, entrepreneurs are supposed to go out and raise as much money as they possibly can?  How does that make sense over three months since the collapse of the capital markets?  Great idea.  Too bad, it wasn’t shared you know, when it could have been useful. While we wish [...]

December 23 , 2008 — 08:53 AM

Beat the Economic Heat: Use Cool APIs

Hi, this is Ike Singh with a guest post on how utilizing APIs has helped my company FilmJamr with faster, scalable, wondefully cheaper and reliable development of our films based social networking site. I’m sure most of you are familiar with the word: API (Application Programming Interface), so im not going to get into defining [...]

December 22 , 2008 — 06:03 AM

Startup Gender Gap

What causes the startup gender gap?  Most entrepreneurs that I know are men, though I am fortunate to know a number of successful female entrepreneurs as well.  That being said, what causes the disparity? Is it a delayed affect?  Women continue to move up the corporate ladders at all types of businesses.  As that trend continues, [...]

December 20 , 2008 — 10:57 AM

Happy Holidays from nPost

We wish you a happy and prosperous 2009.  We look forward to an exciting New Year with more blog posts, Twitter updates, events and entrepreneur interviews. There are going to be a lot of exciting new startups in the new year.

December 19 , 2008 — 03:03 PM

Fake it until you Make it

You can go to school for years, you can work for some of the best entrepreneurs in the world, and you can prove yourself by moving up the chain of command before you start your own company.  Or you could simply fake it until you make it. In fact, if you were to ask a handful [...]

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