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Entrepreneur Corner Roundup: Surefire ways to get rejected by an angel investor and clearing up lean startup myths

VentureBeat  Nov 07 09

Here’s the latest from VentureBeat’s Entrepreneur Corner:

Shoestring marketing for startups – Young companies typically don’t have the budget for a substantial marketing campaign, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. As you search for your niche and your company evolves, serial entrepreneur Scott Olson offers advice on the best ways to get a big marketing bang for your buck.

Lean startups aren’t cheap startups – Too many entrepreneurs assume the lean startup methodology is a way to save money. It can be, but that’s not the idea behind the philosophy. Serial entrepreneur Steve Blank clears up some of the confusion, clearing up some commonly held misconceptions. Full story...

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More GamesBeat@GDC speakers: Helgason, Pham and Mahoney

VentureBeat  about an hour ago

VentureBeat’s upcoming GamesBeat@GDC executive game conference is set for March 10 in San Francisco at the Game Developers Conference in the Moscone Convention Center.

BioShock 2 Q&A: the trick to creating a critically acclaimed sequel

VentureBeat  about an hour ago

The first BioShock game surprised gamers when it debuted on the Xbox 360 in August, 2007. It was a horror-shooting game with mature themes and an imaginative story set in an underwater paradise gone bad.

WorldMate helps you find LinkedIn connections while traveling

VentureBeat  2 hours ago

Mobile travel application WorldMate just announced new integration that should help users tap into their connections on business networking site LinkedIn while they’re on-the-road.

Five compensation-related mistakes startups make (and should avoid)

VentureBeat  2 hours ago

(Editor’s note: Caine Moss is a corporate and securities partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.

Offerpal Media lets you pay for games by putting you to work

VentureBeat  2 hours ago

Offerpal Media is launching a new way to pay for games and other social apps today. Basically, Offerpal is going to put you to work.

Nasuni lets businesses add cloud storage on the fly

VentureBeat  3 hours ago

In an move to simplify storage of data in a web-based cloud, Nasuni is unveiling new storage technology, the Nasuni Filer.

Zeus Research and STi let you use phone cards to buy virtual goods

VentureBeat  8 hours ago

STi Prepaid has created a huge empire with prepaid phone cards, selling over 200 million cards a year in 200,000 stores.

Foursquare patches its content gap with Zagat, HBO partnerships

VentureBeat  9 hours ago

As competitors with rich content offerings like Yelp close in on its core market, Foursquare is rallying to fight back with a series of big media partnerships.

Motorola Droid to receive multitouch web browser with Android 2.1 this week

VentureBeat  9 hours ago

The past few weeks have been a blessing for Google Android users who have longed for official multitouch support on the mobile platform.

Shared content on Facebook surges fivefold from seven months ago

VentureBeat  10 hours ago

Facebook users are sharing five billion pieces of content a week, or five times as much as they were in July, according to new statistics the company released this month.



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