Jason Del Rey


How to Advertise on Facebook

Here are 4 tips to make your advertising on Facebook as effective for your business: Stand out among Facebook's status updates, party photos, and comments.  Read story

Taking a Niche Brand Mainstream

Did it make sense for the founders of Mighty Leaf Tea to introduce their niche brand in large supermarkets amid a recession?  Read story

When to Fire Your Co-Founder

The wrong way to calculate ROI. Union Square Ventures's Fred Wilson says he often notices a lack of sophistication in the numbers he gets from entr...  Read story

How to Launch in Tough Times

What Obama's speech means for businesses . President Obama spent most of his State of the Union address last night focusing on how the country can ...  Read story

Is it Time for the Founder to Go?

How to lower your business bills . According to BillShrink, the answer is to choose your service providers wisely. The service, which gets a write-u...  Read story

Entrepreneurs: Risk-Takers or Predators?

Why founders matter . They make the kinds of decisions that professional managers--whose main concern is shareholder value--never could make, says F...  Read story

Facebook's Newest Partner

Launch a company for $12, sell it for $100,000. Sean Percival didn't have huge ambitions when he launched a website selling customized European lic...  Read story

Laptop Creator Named Director of Smithsonian Museum

Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian's National Design Museum, has a new director and even if you don't recognize his name, you're probably familiar with a rather i...  Read story

Apple Tablet Rumors Heat Up

(20)10 lessons in entrepreneurship . In light of the new year, tech start-up blog Read story

A Business Plan? So 2008

Don't bother with a business plan . That's the advice tech entrepreneur Read story

Is Google Being Evil?

Google blows up another nascent business . So-called URL shorteners--which make it easy to link to websites on Twitter--have seemed like a promising...  Read story

Five Traits that VCs Love

101 motivational quotes to keep spirits high . With much of the country enveloped in messy winter storms, not to mention the ever-present flurry of ...  Read story

Local Business? Win $1,000 from Intuit

A not-so-jobless recovery? According to the Read story

Co-founder of Hot Start-up Charged With Fraud

Jeremy Blackburn, co-founder of high-flying health care software company Canopy Financial, has been charged with fraud by both the Securities and Exchange...  Read story

A Second Chance for a Failed Brand

The once-hot eco-friendly clothing brand Nau is reborn as part of apparel retailer Horny Toad.  Read story

Entrepreneurs in the News

Former MTV and AOL mogul Bob Pittman  (left) has teamed with former Jose Cuervo executive Bertha Gonzalez Nieves to ...  Read story

Inc. 500 Company Canopy Financial Subject of FBI Probe

The health care company's founder, Vikram Kashyap, has stepped down as CEO.  Read story

Murdoch Vs. Google; Dealing with Shady Shoppers

Murdoch's Google gambit shakes up the blogosphere . The Financial Times Read story

When Tweets Go Wrong; Mobile Apps of the Future

Wall Street giving to Main Street . No matter the motive, $500 million is one solid gift for the 10,000 small businesses that will receive funding f...  Read story

How to Market on Facebook; Win a Franchise

No health care reform, say most entrepreneurs in Congress . The New York Times has Read story

The "Other" Entrepreneurship; Inside Intuit

Private companies still cutting back . A new employment report from ADP estimates that private companies Read story

Case Study: A Hot-Tub Maker Hits Hard Times

Bob Hallam of Dimension One Spas is struggling along with the rest of the hot tub industry. Can he come up with some new products to revive his company?  Read story

Entrepreneurs in the News

Aspiring entrepreneurs will get some star treatment with the release of TEN9EIGHT , a documentary opening in AMC theaters this mo...  Read story

How to Find Small-Business Grants

Bye bye recession . The nightmare is over . Maybe. The Wall Street Journal (alo...  Read story

How to Decide to Close Up Shop

Building business credit. Sure, the Obama administration just announced plans to boost credit to small businesses, but getting financed c...  Read story

Top Small Business Cities and a Twitter Challenger

The 50 best places to launch a new small business. CNNMoney.com ranks Read story

The Case for Founders; CEOs as TV Stars

Zuckerberg: founders make better CEOs . Henry Blodget of Business Insider has posted a Read story

Entrepreneurs in the News

If you have everything it takes to be a highflier except, well, a good idea, say thank you to Paul Graham. His Y Combinator, the venture ...  Read story

Pandora Lives; Inc. 500|5000 Conference wrap-up

Apple: 2 billion iPhone apps downloaded . This spring, Apple announced that 1 billion apps have been downloaded through the Read story

Despite Budget Cuts, Schools Upgrade Classroom Technology

Education technology companies report strong sales of interactive whiteboards even as many school districts face budget cuts.  Read story

Tech's Newest Breed; Twitter Crisis Management

The future of online news? Google, seen as the evil empire of online news to many traditional media publishers, is making a move that could appease...  Read story

Twitter's Revenue Problem; The Right Way to Fail

The Return of Steve Jobs? Apple is widely Read story

Inc. Ticker: Entrepreneurs in the News

The latest news on Paul Allen, Jack Welch, and former NBA star David Robinson  Read story

How to Cut Your Health Care Costs

Seven ways for businesses to lower health care costs . Even if President Obama signs health care reform legislation into law in the next few months,...  Read story

Nominate a Small Business; A Very Public Firing

American Express and NBC take nominations for the most inspirational small businesses. If you were watching the premiere of the Las Vegas season of...  Read story

Requests for Start-ups; Marketing for Free

Need an idea for a start-up? Talk to Paul GrahamRead story

Digg's New Ad Strategy; Hyatt's Unnecessary IPO

Do you Digg that ad? The social news site Digg, which Inc. profiled last year, ha...  Read story

Apple's Tablet Computer and The Worst PR Writing

A crackdown on behavioral targeting? A high tech form of advertising where Web users are shown advertisements based on what sites they've visited i...  Read story

Inside the Zappos Sale

More on the big Zappos sale. Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh announced yesterday afternoon that his company was getting Read story

Starbucks Undercover; How to Kill a Great Idea

The recession probably won't hurt your business. Say what? Scott Shane says there's a common curiosity about recessionary effects on start-ups, but...  Read story