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Getting Your Karaoke On With Midomi & SonicLiving.

Have you ever caught yourself singing in the shower? How about belting out loud while driving to a song on the radio? Are you one who loves to showcase your vocal talent while being accompanied by the actual song? That’s exactly what services like Midomi and SonicLiving aim to provide with their new iPhone app.
Perhaps [...]

Helping Startups Understand Promotion & Survival Using Social Media

This week I attended an event in Palo Alto in the old Facebook headquarters building. It wasn’t your typical event, but it was definitely a good one. Organized by the fbFund, this event featured several great thought leaders in the realm of social media and startups, including renowned author of The Facebook Era Clara Shih, [...]

A Convergence of Talent & Startups is Set to Go Down at Twiistup

A truly unique experience is about to happen in the land of Hollywood and Sunset Blvd in Los Angeles. At the end of this month, the City of Angels will play host to one of the biggest and most extravagant events on the West Coast: Twiistup.
But what is Twiistup? According to the event’s website, it’s [...]

If You Aren’t Excited About It…

If you’re on the fence whether you’re excited about what you do or if the shine has worn off… pick a side and go there. It’s going to suck at times. It’s going to be exhausting at others. There’s going to be days where you look at your loved one, friend, employees, or business partner and think, “What the hell did I get myself into” and the answer to that question is the very same thing “I love what I do for a living!”

Marketing Your Business On A Shoestring Budget…

In my previous post ‘Get Your Hand Off Your Wallet And Your Head Out Of Your…*’, Terry Upton asked in her comment “What if you don’t have any money at all? What would you say to those people trying to get there business off the ground?”

Well fear not Terry, and all you trying to have your business take flight, this post is for you.

Grow Smart Business Webinar Interview with Anita Campbell of Small Business Trends

Anita Campbell, Editor of Small Business Trends will be one of five panelists on the GrowSmartBusiness Webinar (next Thursday, April 30 at 2pm ET). Her well-rounded expertise will shed light on two of the biggest challenges for small businesses –marketing and finance – as revealed in the Small Business Success Index. We asked Anita to [...]

Event Review: Social Matchbox DC

Thursday, April 2, at the Tenley Campus of American University in DC, saw another sold-out edition of the successful Social Matchbox DC networking event, headed up by Robert and Juliana Neelbauer. (See Shashi’s event preview blog post.)

Washington Post tech columnist Kim Hart has a good event writeup, which features a photo from our own Shashi [...]

Connecting Startups, Socializers and Job Seekers

Social Matchbox is organized by Robert and Juliana Neelbauer and Network Solutions is proud to sponsor this event under the Small Business Success Index umbrella. Robert says :
Social Matchbox is DC’s longest running open mic night and networking event for startup companies that are backed by angel and venture investors as well as those which [...]

SXSW Entrepreneurs: Alex Hillman of Indy Hall

On Saturday at SXSW (South By Southwest) I had the opportunity to attend the Core Conversation on Coworking given by Alex Hillman.
For those who don’t know Alex, his blog is Dangerously Awesome and his Philadelphia-based coworking space, Independents Hall or Indy Hall, was one of the first to formalize the coworking space.
The core conversation was [...]

Thoughts on Coworking: Can you use it as a way to subsidize your empty office space?

With a bumpy economic road still ahead, here at Solutions Are Power, we brainstorm about creative ways you can leverage what business resources your do have to go that extra mile. In conversations with people a trend that I believe could develop as an aspect of this struggling economy is for businesses that may have [...]