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“How to Web” Conference in Romania

Bogdan Ioradache in Romania has launched a new web conference for entrepreneurs in Romania called How to Web. We interviewed Bodgan to learn more about the conference and how it can help those who attend.

Question: What is How to Web? How do people register to attend?How to Web is a great conference taking place in Bucharest, Romania, focused on web entrepreneurship and web trends. The content is especially tailored for Eastern European web profesionals and includes rich-content presentations, analysis and...

Founder2Be: A Matchmaking Service for Entrepreneurs

Founder2Be is a unique web-based enterprise dedicated to helping people who want to start new enterprises find compatible co-founders. We recently interviewed Founder2Be to learn more about how their service works and how it got it’s start.

Question: Who founded your business and what are their backgrounds?

Founder2be was co-founded by Oliver Bremer and Frank Haubenschild from Germany. Oliver has M.Sc. in Computer Science and has worked for Nokia until 2007 and for Strands until the end of 2010. He then quit...

An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Proof of Concept

For most startups, and university spinoffs, developing a “proof of concept” is a critical step on the path to pre-launch funding. In most cases, new entrepreneurs focus on creating a proof of concept that demonstrates that they have created a solution which meets one or more technical requirements. They are often surprised that these prototypes rarely inspire people to give them the support they need.

While high-tech startups are usually based on some kind of technological innovation, what strategic partners and...

Practical Q & A: Pricing, Marketing & Sales

Q: Are there different business models between a service based firm and a production firm/sales firm?

A:Generally speaking, yes. A company that manufactures products almost always has fixed costs (equipment, people, etc) and enjoys returns to scale (which means the more they produce, the lower their cost of production). A service-based business may have very low, or no, fixed costs, but their costs remain relatively constant over time. A sales-based business (which sells the products and services of...

An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Search Engine Marketing Site & Page Structure Matters

Almost every company on earth needs a website in order to do business these days. That’s how many businesses get most of their customers. Sometimes one person will tell another the name of a business and its domain name, sometimes a customer will simply search Google for the solution they need. In the latter case, your site’s structure must be designed to help connect Google searchers to the products and services you sell. Here’s a quick overview of what to do ....

An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Writing, Designing, Publishing, Distributing, Promoting and Selling a Book Profitably

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Writing, publishing and selling a book with today’s technology can take as little as a month. In this article we review specific steps you can take to design, write, publish, distribute and promote your book profitably.

Identify your target market and determine what they need to know and how they need to learn it. Note: Putting this step first insures that your book will make money, and if you find it...

Buy and Sell Web Ads with BuySellAds: An Alternative to Google Ad Solutions

BuySellAds.com delivers a straight forward, easy to understand, reliable market for publishers and advertisers to use. Publishers pick the sites they want to run ads on. Advertisers can enable and disable advertisers at will, and they set their own prices. Best of all, BuySellAds takes only 25% of the revenue generated by a click, and they cover all costs related to the transaction (including PayPal and Credit Card fees).

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