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Jenny Leonard – Living A Great Life With No Job [Interview]

Interviews - 24 June 2011

Jenny Leonard – Living A Great Life With No Job [Interview]

This interview was conducted by Stephen Perkins and was originally posted on his blog. Jenny Leonard got out of college not looking for a job, but looking for a life. And ever since then, it’s safe to say that her life has been far from boring. Between amazing travels, business success, and landing a spot on [...]


[How To] Use EmpireAvenue To Amass Influence

Internet Marketing - 21 June 2011

[How To] Use EmpireAvenue To Amass Influence

There’s another social network out- EmpireAvenue. This one looks interesting though. Before EA, all the social networks do not directly reward you for retweeting, liking, Digging, etc. But this one does. And that is a gamechanger. You Pay To Establish Connections EA operates with their own currency called Eaves. You can buy shares in another [...]


Why You Should And Should Not Take Peter Thiel’s Offer To Skip College

Thoughts - 20 June 2011

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In this article, we’ll take a look at the pros and cons of Peter Thiel’s 100k offer to entrepreneurial teens to skip college. The fellowship gives teens 100k over two years to build a company but the deal is that they can’t enroll in college. The first members of the 20 Under 20 Fellows were [...]


1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

Entrepreneurship - 17 June 2011

1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

During today’s roundtable, we had four Microsoft BizSpark Startup India Challenge grant finalists present. Two of them, Freshdesk and Bizosys (10Screens), are 1M/1M premium members, and we have already been working on their strategies for a few weeks. Freshdesk First, Girish Mathrubootham from Chennai, India, pitched Freshdesk, a SaaS company that provides small and medium [...]


Onibalusi Bamidele Of YoungPrePro On How To Build A Blogging Business In Nigeria

Interviews - 17 June 2011

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As if being an entrepreneur was not hard enough, being an entrepreneur in Nigeria is really difficult. They face many challenges. First is the fact that Nigeria does not have Paypal. That alone makes it really hard to do transactions online. Second, there’s the challenge of power instability. However, today we have an interview with [...]


[How To] Make Connection With Important People

Thoughts - 15 June 2011

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I had a few people ask how I was able to pull together the star power for the Teen Business Summit. Of course, they meant how I was able to get speakers like Guy Kawasaki, Kevin Hall, and others. In this post, I’m going to talk about how I go about making connections with important [...]


In The Event Of A Recession

Entrepreneurship - 14 June 2011

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The following post is written by James Wright. He lives in Hertfordshire, UK and has had a vast interest in business since he was in elementary school. He is currently a day trader in the stock market, in which his annual return last year was 15% on an initial £10,000 investment. This lead to a [...]


1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Silicon Valley: The Next Renaissance

Entrepreneurship - 10 June 2011

1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Silicon Valley: The Next Renaissance

During today’s roundtable, we had the program split into three segments. The first was our usual entrepreneur strategy discussion. The second was a scenario from one of our premium members around lead generation and qualification that we collectively strategized around. And the third was a discussion on Silicon Valley: The Next Decade. RER First, Ankit [...]


Giancarlo Massaro On Creating A Business Out Of Free Giveaways [Interview]

Interviews - 10 June 2011

Giancarlo Massaro On Creating A Business Out Of Free Giveaways [Interview]

Giancarlo Massaro is the founder of the daily product giveaway site AnyLuckyDay.  Below he shares the story of how he started anyluckyday, along with how he gained traffic to his site,his future plans and some advice for upcoming entrepreneurs. Q. First off tell us a bit about yourself. who you are? where your from? etc; [...]


LittleGeek- How To Create An iPhone Game, TrapIt [Interview]

Interviews - 03 June 2011

LittleGeek- How To Create An iPhone Game, TrapIt [Interview]

This interview is written by Gabe and originally appeared on GamerPress.org Little Geek is a one-man company that develops video games currently for iOS platforms. I was originally a programmer in the games industry back in early to mid 90′s and worked with some guys from a company called Vision Software. The biggest project I worked on [...]