Posts for Generation-Y startup


Chatroulette: Brilliant or Garbage?

From Generation-Y startup
March 7, 2010 at 1:06 pm
Image by alonuziel via Flickr Chatroulette, for those who don’t know is the webcam network that lets you see and chat with complete strangers picked at random. It ... (more)

ReachBy: A Startup With a Fresh Look at Blogging

From Generation-Y startup
January 19, 2010 at 12:30 pm
While there’s no shortage of blog platforms out there on the market, most of them are basically a re-hash of the same old things. If you want simple blogging, options exist, ... (more)

Gen Y Startup To Take New Turn

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December 20, 2009 at 8:57 pm

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Over the past few months, I have learned a whole lot as I continued building my startup and consulting for a brilliant company already making

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RealTime is Stealing the show

From Generation-Y startup
November 26, 2009 at 1:58 am
Image by Ed Yourdon via Flickr I have been unable to really blog as much as I would have liked to lately, but there’s a good reason. I have been quite busy with some ... (more)

Gen Y StartUp Of The Week: CauseShare

From Generation-Y startup
November 17, 2009 at 10:54 am
Two years ago, I was watching the local news when an interesting and perplexing story took hold of the airwaves.  I looked up from my computer and read the headline on the screen: ... (more)

Ready To Pitch Investors?

From Generation-Y startup
November 11, 2009 at 11:41 am
For many Entrepreneurs, it’s inevitable, that day when you stand before someone that could very much change your life in an instant. Pitching investors could be rough, torrid ... (more)

Startups Start With Conversations

From Generation-Y startup
November 9, 2009 at 1:53 am
Ideas are the center of all the growth we have been able to achieve since making fire and the wheel all the way to iPhones and SUV’s. Someone had an idea to improve their ... (more)

Trouncing the Recession like an Upstart!

From Generation-Y startup
October 27, 2009 at 7:42 pm
This brilliant post was written by Donna Fenn, I highly encourage you to pick up her book Upstarts! Small business owners are typically an optimistic lot, even in the face of ... (more)

Advise For New Entrepreneurs: Outsource!

From Generation-Y startup
October 22, 2009 at 12:43 am
I read a book some years back while in college. At the time I couldn’t understand why my professor ( Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer, Chemical Engineering) would ... (more)

Why Having A Job Compliments Your Startup Dream

From Generation-Y startup
October 14, 2009 at 9:41 am
Image by mauricesvay via Flickr I have read many posts and heard alot of casts where people talk about quitting their day jobs or dropping off school to build their start-ups, ... (more)

Startups Must Network Early And Effectively

From Generation-Y startup
October 12, 2009 at 9:15 am
Image by Scott Beale / Laughing Squid via CrunchBase Every start-up shares the same primary objective: Get lots of people to join my service/use my product. It’s ... (more)

Why Unemployed College Grads Should Channel Their Inner Entrepreneur

From Generation-Y startup
October 8, 2009 at 12:05 pm
Last spring, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that unemployment among 18 to 25-year-olds was a staggering 16.1%. That was grim news for college grads, plenty of whom headed ... (more)

What we can all learn from failed startups

From Generation-Y startup
September 30, 2009 at 1:13 pm
These days it seems like startups are springing up everywhere every single day and it’s a bit tiresome really to take it all in. All of a sudden myriads of people want to ... (more)

Social Media Lessons For Startups

From Generation-Y startup
September 22, 2009 at 1:55 am
Social Media and Web 2.0 has really swept across the internet community like wild fire and the effects it’s had are remarkable. When I decided to start building my start-up, ... (more)

Your To-Do List Before Venturing into Business

From Generation-Y startup
September 15, 2009 at 12:41 pm
Usually the beginning of an Entrepreneurial journey is the conception of the idea. It is what follows after that determines how successful your business will become however. Every ... (more)

StartUps: Start Marketing Months Before You Launch?

From Generation-Y startup
September 9, 2009 at 9:23 pm
Many young entrepreneurs are guilty of starting a Marketing campaign only after they have launched their product or their website has gone live. I have come to learn that it is ... (more)

A Good Mentor Is A Must For Every StartUp

From Generation-Y startup
September 4, 2009 at 12:22 pm
At this stage of development, my start-up is starting to take shape and things are finally beginning to fall into place. A section of the site will contain videos that cannot ... (more)

Why Many Gen Y Startups Fail

From Generation-Y startup
August 31, 2009 at 1:35 pm
This is a post I have been working on for quite a few weeks now and only just concluded that it’s got enough information and ready to be shared. Each day I stumble on myriads ... (more)

Eleven Questions with Brazen Careerist Penelope Trunk

From Generation-Y startup
August 25, 2009 at 3:42 pm
Many people just know you as the awesome blogger and power woman behind Brazen Careerist, can you let us a little into the world of Miss Trunk? I like to think that each of us ... (more)

Anatomy of a winning ‘Elevator Pitch’

From Generation-Y startup
August 21, 2009 at 11:53 pm
I was once told that if I can’t explain my company and what it does in a sentence or two at most, then I have no idea what the company does. Ever since then I have tried to ... (more)

Startup in Focus: IdealPitch

From Generation-Y startup
August 17, 2009 at 1:06 pm
I recently came across this website called IdealPitch and thought I needed to share with other entrepreneurs. I am personally not so big on VCs but if you’ve been involved in ... (more)

The gen y entrepreneur’s Achilles’ heel

From Generation-Y startup
August 14, 2009 at 5:13 pm
I was just thinking about the things that really fire up young entrepreneurs these days and decided to pen down a few. There are quite a few things that certainly warm my heart ... (more)

As a young entrepreneur, you must learn to sacrifice?

From Generation-Y startup
August 14, 2009 at 4:43 am
I was debating whether to tweet this or make in into a blog post, but i decided that 140 characters won’t do justice to what I intend to share. I have only just started ... (more)

Is it your business? then you are to blame.

From Generation-Y startup
August 11, 2009 at 8:04 pm
Did you say that you meant well and it wasn’t your fault? That you couldn’t be in 10 places at the same time and that you had no clue it was happening in your company? I doubt ... (more)

The Timing Is Never Right

From Generation-Y startup
August 9, 2009 at 1:49 pm
Is there really a perfect time for one to start a business? I ask myself that question a lot and always seemed to come up with the same answer. I have never had to explain my ... (more)