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How Start-Ups Can Benefit from Social Networking

Every startup has its own set of unique challenges, but one thing that most have in common is the difficulty of reaching out to a community...

Jordan’s Tech Locomotive

To think that a singular effort would create Jordan’s ecosystem for entrepreneurship makes for an unreliable model. Real change will only c...

Jordan's Dream: Is it enterprise-friendly?

Hardly a week seems to go by in Jordan without some high-ranking government official or influential business figure praising the plucky...

What Will Improve Jordan's Entrepreneurship Ecosystem?

Venture magazine spoke to ten industry gurus about the most pressing issues facing start-ups, and their recommendations for an...

You don’t have to be Bill Gates to be an entrepreneur

You shouldn’t have to be Bill Gates to be considered an entrepreneur. By Yusuf Mansur. This article first appeared in venture magazine. Do ...

Jordan's Agents of Change

In the next few years, the work of a few Jordanian agents of change, investing millions of dollars in small companies, could matter more...

A Priority List for Startup Company Founders

Leading a startup company is nothing like leading a big, established company. Startups are focused foremost on survival, while big...

The Right Amount of Equity to Give Investors

Investors will often seek a share of your company in return for crucial start-up funds. But what is a fair percentage? This article by Paul...

How to Become a Great Business Leader

Have you made the transition yet? With a few tips from this leadership expert, you can learn to become a great business leader. Patty...

Shaking the Money Tree: The Search for Financing

When it comes time to seek financing your startup enterprise, do you know your options? Mathew Georgiou, MediaSpark Inc. This article ...

How to Easily Evaluate your Startup Idea

The crucial issue of whether your startup idea is worthwhile can be assessed with a few simple questions. After you listen to about a ...

Entrepreneurship 101: Make something people want.

Making money is it's so much easier than building something great. This essay is derived from a talk by Paul Graham at CISCO’s Startup S...

10 Tips for Starting a Business from Your Home

This article appears courtesy of CISCO's Small Business Resource Center. Starting a home-based business is never easy. From a...

The Basics of Networks: What You Need To Know

When looking at networking basics, understanding the way a network operates is the first step to understanding routing and switching This...

How to Launch a Marketing Campaign

In business, “turning on the faucet” is a metaphor for flooding your market with the full spectrum of marketing and business development. ...

VCs and option pools: Swimming in the deep end

Understanding the "option pool" will help entrepreneurs get to grips with early-stage employee rewards and incentives. Scott Edward ...

How to Position Your Startup Against Competition

Every entrepreneur has competition. It's always important to admit it, but not to the point where you believe it's irrelevent. Jason C...

Warren Buffett: How to Communicate

Lou Hoffman is CEO of The Hoffman Agency, a public relations firm with multiple offices in the US, Europe and Asia. This story first...

Stability or startup: Keys to making the choice

Effective planning can help overcome the fears about taking the leap into launching a new venture Ro Choy is a veteran Silicon Valley tech...

How To Create a Good Relationship with a VC

Venture capital funding is a relationship, not a transaction, argues Nat Goldhaber Nat Goldhaber is co-founder and managing director of...

How much should you look for in your seed round?

The challenge of how much money to seek in early-stage funding remains one of the most complex an entrpreneur can face. Will Herman is an...

How to Create an Effective Business Plan

When an entrepreneur has identified a potential business opportunity, the next step is developing a business plan for the new venture. What...

Freemium: A business model startups can’t ignore

The word “freemium” may be less than four years old, but the business model it describes – offering basic service access for free and then ...

Can "lean" co-exist with "innovation"?

“Lean” has come to mean an integrated, end-to-end process that combines the waste elimination, just-in-time inventory management and a cul...

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