TechLifeMashup | Entrepreneurs, Social Media, and Technology

Have your own business?  Wish you could save more money than you currently are?  You’re not alone.  Many entrepreneurs who run their own business whether it be from an office or at home, are constantly looking for ways to cut spending without hurting the business.   You may be surprised to hear that this is actually easier then it seems.  Today, I’m going to share my top 5 tips  for saving money on your business.  Not only will you save money, but you’ll be more productive too! More »

There were 672,000 new small business start-ups in 2009.  Small businesses continue to grow in popularity as more people continue to turn to this career path.  Events such as a slow economy, job cuts, and better benefits are just some of the reasons people have turned to small businesses for work.  Wondering what types of small business did well, where the best place to start a small business is, or maybe you want to know why some businesses fail and other succeed?  Well,  Focus recently published a very interesting infographic answering these exact questions.  Take a look! More »

Women entrepreneurs represent about 40% of the private small business space with over $3 trillion in profits per year among them according to a recent article published at biznik. I’ve come to find entrepreneurship to be a much more level playing field when it comes to doing business than the traditional corporate setting for almost anyone regardless of background.  For this reason alone it is no surprise that we continue to see more women-based entrepreneurs entering the small business market.  So I figured I would take a moment to highlight 5 highly effective social networking sites geared towards women entrepreneurs. More »

Taking a start-up business public through stock options has been the traditional approach for most entrepreneurs of the past.  A entrepreneur would find a investor to fund the start-up.  The entrepreneur would then have to either sell the company off or have an IPO  and offer a public stock option in order to payback the investors.  IPOs and the public option have taken a backseat in recent years to corporate buyouts for a variety of reasons.  This shift in methods for generating financial revenues can easily be explained and with good reason. More »

Making money online is something many of us as entrepreneurs aim to do.  Pat Flynn was an Architect who lost his job a little a little over a year ago.  Being down on his luck, he decided to give entrepreneurship with very little background in the area.  Over the course of the next year he was able to generate over $200,000 in sales from his small online business.  Pat now works full time on his business as an entrepreneur with no plans of ever going back to the daily 9-5 workweek.  I’ll let Pat himself tell you all about it from how he did it (step-by-step) to what you can do to have the same success as Flynn. More »

Anyone who dreams of being an entrepreneur knows the importance of education.  Most colleges have lacked any type of entrepreneurship education program or degree leaving any would be entrepreneur to teach themselves in most cases.  Despite the poor level of support in the past though, it looks like things are finally changing as the upcoming generation of college bound students will have much more of a selection when it comes to majoring in the field of entrepreneurship.  However, we all know nothing is created equal, which is why we bring you the top 10 schools for college bound entrepreneurs. More »