http://genystartup.com Resource for new Entrepreneurs building startups Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:06:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Image by alonuziel via Flickr Chatroulette, for those who don't know is the webcam network that lets you see and chat with complete strangers picked at random. It is the new web phenom and everyone is talking about it, from CNN to hallways in high-schools around the country. It is very ... http://genystartup.com/startup/chatroulette-brilliant-or-garbage/ While there's no shortage of blog platforms out there on the market, most of them are basically a re-hash of the same old things. If you want simple blogging, options exist, but they are usually quite limited in what they let users do. ReachBy.com is a simple blogging platform with some ... http://genystartup.com/startup/reachby-a-startup-with-a-fresh-look-at-blogging/ [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="340" caption="Image by wilbertbaan via Flickr"][/caption] Over the past few months, I have learned a whole lot as I continued building my startup and consulting for a brilliant company already making waves in the real-time tech industry. I have drawn inspiration from several sources and the experience I ... http://genystartup.com/startup/gen-y-startup-to-take-new-turn/ Image by Ed Yourdon via Flickr I have been unable to really blog as much as I would have liked to lately, but there's a good reason. I have been quite busy with some consulting work I am doing for this amazing start-up called Gaucho and my own new venture: Videfy. ... http://genystartup.com/startup/realtime-is-stealing-the-show/ Two years ago, I was watching the local news when an interesting and perplexing story took hold of the airwaves.  I looked up from my computer and read the headline on the screen:  “Girl Scout In Hot Water for Using Net to Sell Cookies.”  The news reporter then went on ... http://genystartup.com/startup/gen-y-startup-of-the-week-causeshare/ For many Entrepreneurs, it's inevitable, that day when you stand before someone that could very much change your life in an instant. Pitching investors could be rough, torrid but could also be very fulfilling. In my case, I am certainly keeping an eye out potential investors since I am gradually ... http://genystartup.com/startup/ready-to-pitch-investors/ Ideas are the center of all the growth we have been able to achieve since making fire and the wheel all the way to iPhones and SUV's. Someone had an idea to improve their lifestyle or the life of others and then put that idea into motion. More often than ... http://genystartup.com/startup/startups-start-with-conversations/ This brilliant post was written by Donna Fenn, I highly encourage you to pick up her book Upstarts! Small business owners are typically an optimistic lot, even in the face of dismal economic conditions. But a recent American Express OPEN Small Business Monitor survey found that GenY entrepreneurs are more optimistic ... http://genystartup.com/startup/trouncing-the-recession-like-an-upstart/ I read a book some years back while in college. At the time I couldn't understand why my professor ( Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer, Chemical Engineering) would ask us to read it and write a paper about it. It seemed very strange and unnecessary to say the least. ... http://genystartup.com/startup/advise-for-new-entrepreneurs-outsource/ Image by mauricesvay via Flickr I have read many posts and heard alot of casts where people talk about quitting their day jobs or dropping off school to build their start-ups, that's cool and all but make sure you take a minute or several minutes to rethink that ... http://genystartup.com/startup/why-having-a-job-compliments-your-startup-dream/