When you're starting up your startup, its important to know who your competitors are because they will actually become some of your best friends in your startup journey! But finding out who they are and keeping up with them is unfortunately difficult to do. Some of your competitors are not searchable online, they are in the development phases, or maybe just have not been optimized for SEO. But once you...
Going to a conference for the first time is amazing, the content and rockstars there are overflowing. But, as a more seasoned conferencer, getting the most out of it gets harder, and harder, and harder, until you end up not going anymore. If that is the case, the problem is half the conference organizers and half yours. Well, truthfully, its all your fault. Conferences, people together, are always...
In the last couple of days, Kony 2012 has been all the rage over the internet, social media, print, television, and just pure word of mouth. However a lot of what I'm now calling "haters", as usual, have refused to jump on the band-wagon because something as viral as this cannot but have a few enemies. Before I get into why their comments, from a social good entrepreneurs perspective, are small fish, I want...
Startups are all about innovation, a unique solution to an existing problem, however many social startups fail because they.. assume there is a problem, when there is actually not don't know how to get their solution in to the hands of the people that need it underestimate the competition already out there are not surrounded by people who actually understand what they're doing If your startup falls into one of the...
Just in time for the Oakland Local Holiday Party last night, TechScouts launched a spiffed-up version of the Oakland Local website! We love helping local organizations that contribute positively to the community, and TechScouts chose Oakland Local as the recipient of our pro bono grant program for websites because of their commitment to bringing local news to the citizens of Oakland. One request that Susan of...
