Their apps and websites are familiar, and millions of us use them every single day – but how many of us really know anything about the entrepreneurs behind some of our favourite phone apps and websites? The massive popularity of their apps has taken the innovators by surprise, too.
Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger
Kevin Systrom studied at Stanford University and went on to do an internship at Odeo, the company Twitter originated from. After two years with Google, he met Mike Krieger, a Brazilian entrepreneur and software engineer, and in 2010 the pair went on to found Instagram, the photo sharing app for mobile phones that allows users to take pictures on their smartphones, customise them and share them on the app or via Twitter and Facebook.…
It’s an exciting time for start-ups. With technology moving at such a rapid speed, there’s always something new on the horizon. And there’s no better feeling than knowing that you were onto something before it was cool. So, if you want to be ahead of the curb, here are six startups who you should start paying close attention to, because what they’re doing is bound to be the next big thing.
Tastes Like Chicken
With sustainability on every innovator’s mind right now, this start-up is trying to see how we can consume less of the world’s resources in what we eat.…
Technology, these days, is moving at a pace that none of us could have imagined even a decade back. There is no surprise if a few businesses find it really tough to keep pace with the fast changing technology and understanding how this change can impact the overall growth of a business.
It can’t be denied that the good thing that we are getting to experience with this fast paced technology is its ability to boost productivity, save money and even improve collaboration for businesses in the long run.…
Kickstarter, for those who’ve been living under a rock for the past few years, is one of the hottest start-ups this side of the Sun. Through it, everyone from your neighbor to the biggest names in art, science, and the wildly creative can post a project, and provided it’s good enough (or at least not boring), people from all over the world can donate, crowd=funding the project(s) to fruition and getting some nice bonuses for their trouble. Sometimes, though, things don’t turn out as planned.…
Many business professionals use LinkedIn to help boost their career. LinkedIn allows you to connect with other business professionals, network with other people, learn more about specific companies, attend online presentations, join industry-related groups, read industry-related news and even find a new job.
Your LinkedIn profile also contains a variety of information. You can add personal and professional links to websites, current and past jobs, a small biography about yourself, and a list of awards and accomplishments.
One other feature on your LinkedIn profile is the ability for other people to be able to recommend you or for you to recommend someone else.…
If you ask an entrepreneur or a business expert about useful and operative marketing strategies and ideas, you will probably get hold of plenty of them but in reality, marketing strategies and ideas largely depend on the unique situations of businesses. Growing your business can be a challenge and when all the brand new strategies seem to fail, there is no harm in going back to the basics.
There are several marketing tactics from the “old school” that have been tried but now most of them have been left out in the dust.…
In every corner of the world enterprising entrepreneurs are contemplating where to begin. Everyone wants to feel fully prepared and ready to open up shop and begin earning their living on their own terms. If you are considering changing your life and making a simple vision into an everyday reality you need to recognize the risks and not get lost in the rewards.
The statistics out in the world are complex and lack any real legitimacy. Yet equally true are some statistics out in the wild that paint a grim picture for any new business.…
Running a business is something that was once out-of-the-question for the vast majority of us. In order to start a company and begin turning a profit, you would need to have a lot of specialist knowledge, not to mention a brilliant idea, a hefty amount of capital and a team of staff that were willing to put their faith in you.
Today though that’s all changed, and it’s largely thanks to the ubiquity of the computer. Thanks to computers and the internet, we can now create things much more easily without having to invest money.…
Planning is a crucial part of setting up a business. Apart from knowing the kind of business that you want to start, you have to plan where you will set it up. Location will determine the success of your business, so you need to know which cities are best in which to start a business. Here is a short list of U.S. cities where you can successfully start your own business.
Dallas, Texas
This is a metropolitan area with a population of about 6.5 million people.…
Video is an integral part of any crowdfunding campaign. In fact, according to Kickstarter, campaigns with videos have a 50 percent success rate, and the success rate of campaigns without videos is only 30 percent. Regardless of what someone is seeking funding for, video can make or break the project. Here are some of the most detrimental mistakes anyone can make when producing a crowdfunding video and some tips on avoiding them.
Lack of Planning
Too many people make the mistake of simply turning on the camera and making a spur of the moment video without putting any thought into it.…
