March 15th, 2007
We had one final entry before the deadline on Monday from Service Untitled titled Seth Godin on Customer Service. That brings the total to 6. The other 5 can be found here.
With such a few number of entries each person had great odds for winning.
I used a random number generator to pick the winner…drumroll please…
Jeff […]
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March 9th, 2007
Tackling big markets is great. Nobody wants to start a company in a market worth $5. Creating new markets is great too, but most startups are built in existing markets - and often they tout the enormity of those markets as a great reason to get into them.
“The mobile industry will be worth $50 billion […]
By Ben Yoskovitz -- 9 comments
March 8th, 2007
There are some amazing entrepreneurs out there with even more amazing stories to tell.
One such example is Austin Hill (good friend of mine.) He just wrote his “inaugural blog post” after about 6 months of blogging. He took his time getting his feet wet and getting comfortable blogging to the world.
The post is titled Chasing […]
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March 5th, 2007
PROFIT magazine is doing its annual review of the fastest growing companies in Canada. And they’re looking for more entries to be submitted. Anyone can nominate a company for the PROFIT 100 list - but make sure the company is growing fast. We’re talking 100% or more in the past 5 years. They base rankings […]
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March 2nd, 2007
A few days ago I announced a contest to win a couple business books. OK, so I’m not giving away a video IPod (I’ve got a budget people!) but it’s still a fun contest nonetheless.
And the goal isn’t to just win a couple books, but to connect people to a bunch of great entrepreneurial content.
I’m […]
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March 1st, 2007
Gourab Nanda has a long history in big business, working in project management and consulting. His background is a mixture of technology and business; huge SAP integration projects and other large IT-related efforts. And then…and then…he went small.
Gourab recently founded MyBusinessAssistant a company dedicated to helping small business. His target is small business, […]
By Ben Yoskovitz -- 1 comment
February 28th, 2007
The Carnival of Entrepreneurs hit the road again today with entrepreneur Emmanuel Olawutosin. He’s been featured himself a few times in past Carnivals and now he’s hosting!
Check it out at The Carnival of Entrepreneurs 12th Edition Hits The Road Big Time.
Next week the Carnival will be back here at Startup Spark.
And if you really want […]
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February 27th, 2007
We’re right smack in the middle of EntrepreneurshipWeek USA so now is a great time to hold a Business Book Contest.
In fact, I’ve got 2 books to give away in this contest, and in the spirit of giving and sharing here’s how the contest will work:
Find a great blog post about entrepreneurship that really […]
By Ben Yoskovitz -- 10 comments
February 23rd, 2007
As part of EntrepreneurshipWeek USA (which starts tomorrow), they’re running a video contest called The PITCH.
You’ve only got till February 25th to make a submission, but you might want to give it a try anyway.
In a 2-minute video recording answer this question:
What product or service would you offer to help reduce America’s dependency on oil […]
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February 23rd, 2007
Lots of entrepreneurs break out on their own because they’re tired of taking orders from someone else. Lots of people have stories about a “really, really crappy boss.”
But having been a boss for about 10 years I have to say, “We’re people too!”
And, if you grow your business and start hiring people you’ll be on […]
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