Posts for Generation-Y startup


Selling to the Competitive User

From Generation-Y startup
August 20, 2010 at 10:52 am
Nothing is more rewarding for any business than taking an account away from a competitor. Successfully persuading a competitive user to leave their existing vendor ... (more)

Entrepreneurs Must Learn To Spark Conversations About Their Startups

From Generation-Y startup
August 3, 2010 at 11:34 am
Yesterday afternoon I took a break from being so busy to catch up on news making rounds in the tech world and one that particularly caught my eye was Adam Ostrow’s ... (more)

How To Find Early Adopters For Your Start-up

From Generation-Y startup
August 2, 2010 at 9:27 am
In my most recent blog post, I stressed the need for Startups to focus on gaining early adopters before looking for any sort of funding whatsoever. These days, ... (more)

Start-up Success Depends On Your Early Adopters

From Generation-Y startup
July 29, 2010 at 11:50 am
First of all, I think it’s necessary to say sorry to the readers who e-mailed me about my lack of blogging for the past few weeks bar the Causerific intro ... (more)

Causerific Launches in ‘Public Beta’

From Generation-Y startup
July 15, 2010 at 2:13 pm
After 4 weeks of work and planning, I finally released my latest project today, 15th August to the public. As expected, it is only a partial beta release. I say ... (more)

5 Top Tips for Using Social Media to Help Launch Your New Business

From Generation-Y startup
May 27, 2010 at 12:45 pm
This is a guest article by Rick Mathieson, Author of The On-Demand Brand: 10 Rules for Digital Marketing Success in an Anytime, Everywhere World. #1: Don’t ... (more)

PR Musings For Lean Startups: Learn and Apply

From Generation-Y startup
May 17, 2010 at 3:00 pm
Image by theps.net via Flickr “If people don’t talk about me (whether it’s the truth or falsehood), then I worry. Because it means I ain’t ... (more)

Successful Entrepreneurs are Dreamers, Innovators and Risk Takers

From Generation-Y startup
May 3, 2010 at 11:23 am
Image by eschipul via Flickr Of dreams, not nightmares ” you might as well dream big, since it’s a dream. It doesn’t cost you any more to own a Lamborghini ... (more)

Gen Y Startup in focus: Leaguescape

From Generation-Y startup
April 21, 2010 at 11:25 am
Leaguescape, a recently launched poker-modeled Fantasy Sports site is trying to provide the one-stop shop for all things betting on Fantasy Sports. Following the online poker ... (more)

The problem with Outsourcing

From Generation-Y startup
April 19, 2010 at 6:41 pm
Image by Qfamily via Flickr Outsourcing is something I do quite abit. I have been an advocate for well over 3 years now and have enjoyed it for the most part. It’s ... (more)

Cost Effective Ways Startups are Marketing Pt. 1

From Generation-Y startup
March 29, 2010 at 3:55 pm
Image by wilbertbaan via Flickr I have been doing quite a lot of Marketing and PR work lately both for myself and other brands/startups I am involved with. The more time ... (more)

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

Image by wilbertbaan via Flickr

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)