Secret Recipe for an iPhone App

By Guest Author Saad Fazil The current economic climate has several people pondering whether to become rich by selling iPhone apps. Like anything else, making money by creating and selling iPhone apps is no easy task. If it were, most people would do it, thus increasing the competition and bringing down the revenue to zero.

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The Truth About Licensing A Product (Part 3)

By Guest Author Jim DeBetta of the Academy for Entrepreneurs [Jim wraps up with the basics of a licensing agreement before turning to common misconceptions about licensing in tomorrow’s post.] 3. Performance—Make Sure they Practice what they Preach Performance requirements need to be in every license agreement. These include, but aren’t limited to, an introduction

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Innovating In Sustainable Building Materials: Hycrete CEO David Rosenberg (Part 3)

SM: Did any of the DOTs respond to your value proposition after the bridge collapses? DR: People have said that they have never seen a technology get traction so fast. Within a short period of time we were getting into projects with many DOTs. Most were in demonstration projects.

Saad Fazil

Saad Fazil does freelance writing for VentureBeat and is the founder of Whizner Consulting, a technology strategy consulting firm. Prior to consulting, he held business analyst, product management, and sales consultant positions at Kayak.com, Oracle, and Alcatel. He received his MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management. He blogs at IT Valley and tweets at @sfrocks. For fun,

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Forbes Column 2009: Health Care IT’s Diagnosis: Excellent

On Zero-In I called for a Health Care bubble earlier. Read Health Care IT’s Diagnosis: Excellent for an update on the market and the entrepreneurial activity.

Innovating In Sustainable Building Materials: Hycrete CEO David Rosenberg (Part 2)

SM: When did you start Hycrete? DR: I did a six-sigma training program at Honeywell for a month and a half after my MBA and could not stand it. My grandfather passed away and at his shiva I spoke with my uncle and cousin who were also in the family business. That is when the

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Keyword Pricing

Readers, one of my research associates, Saad Fazil, is working on making sense of the convoluted world of keyword pricing – Google AdWords, Vertical Search Engines, and well as Organic Search. Saad would like to request that you share your knowledge if you have perspective to share on the topic …

Entrepreneur Journeys Book Review: Getting Started

I’d like to share a bit of a terrific and detailed review of Entrepreneur Journeys that Robert Steele, a “Top 50 Reviewer” for Amazon, posted: “[Entrepreneur Journeys] is a series of vignettes, one-third context, one-third financing, and one-third nuggets, and for the nuggets alone it is assuredly worthy of purchase and reflection. As a long-time fan of

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