5 Tips To Transition From A Free To A Paid Service
Dave Schappell, founder and CEO of TeachStreet, talks about his company’s transition from a free to a paid service, and shares five tips that may help other startups make the leap as well.
Content: Article | Author: Dave Schappell | Source: TechCrunch | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Marketing / Sales, Strategy
Mobile Video Revenues Estimated At $548 Million In 2010
IDC Forecasts 19.8% Growth For PC Market, Slower Netbook Sales In 2010
Forrester Projects Tablets Will Outsell Netbooks By 2012, Desktops By 2013
Is an MBA a Plus or a Minus in the Startup World?
Vivek Wadhwa discusses the merits of and MBA or similar training for startup environments in light of a Twitter debate with Guy Kawasaki.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Vivek Wadhwa | Source: TechCrunch | Subject: About the MBA Degree
Mobile Data Traffic Expected To Rise 40-Fold Over Next Five Years
Global Smartphone App Download Market Could Reach $15 Billion By 2013
U.S. Smartphone Market Share, Jan 2010
A VC’s Advice On How To Pitch VCs
Raj Kapoor gives entreprenuers advice on how to pitch VCs. Kapoor knows both sides of the equation. For the past five years, he’s been a VC at the Mayfield Fund. Before that he founded the photo site Snapfish, which he sold to Hewlett-Packard.
Content: Article | Author: Raj Kapoor | Source: TechCrunch | Subject: Entrepreneurship
Skype Now Accounts For 12% Of All International Calling Minutes
The Language Service Market
Forrester Forecasts 8.1 Percent Increase In Global IT Spending In 2010
The World Spent $112 Billion On 205 Million TVs This Year: 69 Percent Were LCD TVs
JPMorgan Forecasts A 10.5 Percent Rebound In U.S. Display Advertising in 2010
The Funded Publishes Ideal First Round Term Sheet
TechCrunch gives an overview of and link to a new basic term sheet for use by investors and founders, authored by Adeo Ressi, founder of The Funded, a site where people rate venture capitalists .
Content: Article | Author: Adeo Ressi | Source: TechCrunch | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Legal
In 2009, Netbook Shipments Grew 103%, Revenues Up 72% Year Over Year
Good Question! The Eight Best Questions We Got While Raising Venture Capital
VCs are good at asking questions. They are unimplicated in your dumb decisions, unmoved by your original sense of mission and far less concerned than you that a blunder could bankrupt you. They re-imagine your business in terms of all the other businesses they’ve seen, pulling the arms off one doll and the head off another to create a perfect money-making Frankenstein. And since the … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Glenn Kelman | Source: TechCrunch | Subject: Entrepreneurship