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The new StartupNation “Capture the Flag” Contest is giving out daily prizes and the first prize was $100 of pizza from the winner’s favorite pizza joint. This could be our most popular promotion ever!!
A budding entrepreneur in Las Vegas, Teresa, won the pizza and has offered to share it with other StartupNation community members in [...]

Well, another week comes to an end. It seems this one was faster than ever. Monday seemed to butt up against Friday with nothing in between. Where did it go?
One reason it went so fast is that we were on the road again, and one of the interesting stops was NYC where we taped an [...]

I take every chance I can to learn more about business. The profiles and success stories on StartupNation are fun and inspiring. So are the business human interest stories in the Wall Street Journal. I am fascinated by the ingenious ways that entrepreneurs overcome all sorts of obstacles. So in this blog, I’ll occasionally bring [...]

We have a lot of philosophies about entrepreneurship and small business here at StartupNation. One of them you will hear us mention often on the radio show or at live appearances is that "this is the golden age of entrepreneurship". And essentially what we mean by this is that there has never been a better [...]

Step aside, email. Internet? You ain’t got game. iPhone sounds sweet, but doesn’t even come close to the real killer app – that business application that holds the true power to change the world. Starting with your own world. The ultimate killer app is Love.
What the heck does that mean? It means that we live [...]

Did any of you catch the "Time Magazine" "Person of the Year" feature? The Person of the Year according to "Time" in 2006 was….."YOU".
Now sometimes I think "Time" tries to keep things interesting with this annual feature by stretching to be creative….just for the sake of being creative. I’ve agreed, of course, with many of [...]

As a new blogger at StartupNation, I thought I would introduce myself. Your time is precious, so hopefully I can help you decide whether to invest any more of it reading this blog from time to time.
The main thing to know about me is that I founded and still run PrintingForLess.com. Most of what I [...]

Entrepreneurs need those unique and unexpected diversions in order to shake them out of their daily intensity and provide a proper perspective and the proverbial “looking at things from a different angle”.
The good news is that we model that kind of activity here at StartupNation headquarters. Our team is made up of some of the [...]

So it’s big news these days about Apple coming out with a product and calling it something that Cisco already is calling one of its products. This is very likely much ado about nothing as Apple certainly was aware that Cisco already had a product called iPhone. Reports are that the two companies have been [...]

Yes, that is exactly the kind of conversation that goes on sometimes in the StartupNation community forums. And for good reason. It’s often the wacky, off the wall, “bend your mind just a little bit” topics that spawn the kind of creativity necessary to make it as an entrepreneur.
And entrepreneurs absolutely need to blow off [...]