Business Book: Shoestring Venture – How to Start a Business

GPS. Think outside the driving directions box. Cars. That’s right, integrating smartphone and other apps with people’s vehicles, especially positioning and navigating. Recently, Nokia demonstrated at the Internationale Automobil Ausstellung (which the non-German speaking world calls “The Frankfurt Auto Show”) unveiled a smartphone that totally integrates with the vehicle, so that all the apps and [...]

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Doug Liman does app marketing. Click a girl, like Rebound Girl, and Pepsi’s “Amp Up Before You Score” app gives you advice on how to score with that “type” of girl. If you succeed in bedding the girl (for real), you can add “Rebound Girl” to your “Brag List.” Pepsi, for some reason, decides that [...]

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Just in time, it seems, for our Shoestring Venture Apps Business Bible Intel, hoping to emulate the success of Apple’s App Store, is leading an initiative that would encourage developers to sell applications for netbooks, PCs and other devices powered by its chips. . . . Mr Otellini said Intel’s goal was for developers to [...]

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Way, way back in the days of the dinosaurs — 1993, to be precise — I discovered a new Internet app that was making the rounds among us university geeks and geek wannabes. It was called “Mosaic,” a newfangled Web browser doo-dad, and you could only use it on Unix. A few weeks later, I [...]

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Startup success comes from many things, but NEVER from wasting time watching garbage on TV. I’m not a businessperson in real life, but I play one on TV! Kevin O’Leary stars on ABC’s new business reality show Shark Tank as one of five executives who vet business ideas pitched by would-be entrepreneurs. O’Leary often delivers [...]

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You don’t want to know who’s in charge at the iPhone Apps store. Finally, the feds get interested in the black box we call the iPhone Apps store. Federal regulators want to know if AT&T and Apple worked to together to reject mobile apps for Google’s innovative Voice service, sending letters to the companies asking [...]

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What this place needs is a good copy of Stephen Robbins . . . or a riot. Chen Guojun General manager of Jianlong Steel, about to acquire state-owned Tonghua Iron & Steel, gets some pretty hard sensitivity training by Tonghua employees for being high-handed, highly paid, and threatening to lay off everyone whose name is [...]

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