TechLifeMashup | Entrepreneurs, Social Media, and Technology

Ning is a web platform that allows users to create their own social networks similar to Facebook.  It has grown much in popularity since its launch in 2004 by a particular serial entrepreneur.  In a time when social networking is easily one of the most popular uses of people’s time when surfing the web, it’s no surprise to see outside the box businesses like Ning take off.  For this and more we take a look at entrepreneur Marc Andreessen in the spotlight this week. We’ll look at just how he did it and highlight what lessons any upcoming entrepreneur can learn. More »

The Oatmeal is a very new site that has gained excessive popularity in a very short amount of time thanks to social media sites like Digg and Facebook.  The Digg community as embraced The Oatmeal website with open arms sending massive amounts of traffic to the site, now on a regular basis.  Matthew Inman is the person behind the unique cartoon site.  Matt has a background in marketing and web design.  He started a blog while working as a web developer and later opened The Oatmeal as a place for him to store his cartoon drawings.  The rest is history so to speak.  Matt also has a book on the way now as well.  The overwhelming success has since allowed him to quit his day job and focus full time on his website.  Below is a short interview with Inman, which should inspire anyone hoping to be a successful entrepreneur to keep trying and never give up.  Check it out (run time: 4 min):

Whether you work in an office or on your laptop at home, work for many these days seems to continue to grow faster than we can keep up with it.  Meetings, deadlines, emails, phone calls, and repeat day in and day out.  Managing your time effectively with such a busy schedule crucial to getting it all done.  Now take work and mix in a personal life with a 100 other responsibilities and you get a recipe for stress and frustration for many very quickly.  As a person who wears many hats so to speak, I am always looking for new ways to simplify work and make things just a little easier and a whole lot less stressful.  So in an effort to reduce your work today, I wanted to take some time to highlight 10 easy ways to simplify work both in and out of the office. More »