Why Companies Should Invest In a Mobile-Friendly Website (via Nvate) Iris Hunter Today, many individuals are not using their computers to browse the Internet simply because they are using their smartphone instead. According to comScore’s latest report on the U.S. smartphone market, 133.7 million people owned smartphones… (more…)

New Crowdfunding Platform Advances Fast-Growing Ocean Energy Industry (via Ecopreneurist) Crowdfunding, as the darling of startups and new product launches across a wide range of industries, has been incredibly powerful for raising awareness and demand for all sorts of creative projects. Getting financial support for innovations in clean… (more…)

Personal Branding: it’s all in the name (via The Blog Herald) What’s in a name? The old adage is as true today as it ever was. A name is just a word, unless it is leveraged correctly. When you look across the business landscape, there are dozens of examples of business people who have leveraged […]

Lessons from the trenches: Startup success is all about the journey…and the decisions you make along the way (via StartUp Beat) My friends and I love video games. We also love drinking beer. One day, I was playing Guitar Hero with some buddies and thought: “Life would be perfect if we could combine the two […]

The Unintended Consequences of Tech Startups (via Dice News in Tech) Why do tech startups all look the same? That’s a question The Economist asks and partially answers in a story that details what it calls “The Dark Side of Tech Startups,” a topic seldom discussed by those involved with them. Startup communities… (more…)