Deal Radar 2010: Black Helmet

Black Helmet Apparel is the first high-quality, modern apparel line targeting the firefighter industry. Its products, most of which are made in the United States, feature intricate designs that often incorporate the firefighter’s symbol, the eight-pointed Maltese cross. The company started small but got a big boost in sales and its customer base from social

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Forbes Column 2010: Facebook’s Ideal Future

Facebook should enter Google’s territory. Read more in this week’s Zero In, Facebook’s Ideal Future.

Think Flash Before You Think Big

By Guest Author Saad Fazil Earlier we talked about several platforms on which to showcase your talent (the iPhone, Facebook, Android, Palm Pre, BlackBerry, and MySpace, to name a few). Having so many choices might cause developers to overlook the most obvious platform of all: the World Wide Web, plain HTML, and Flash.

Clara Shih On The Facebook Era (Part 2)

By Guest Author Clara Shih Excerpt from Chapter 3, “Social Capital from Networking Online” One important way the online social graph is manifesting itself in the sociology of business is in facilitating the accumulation of social capital… Early research already shows that bringing networks online makes people more capable and efficient at accumulating, managing, and

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Deal Radar 2009: Zynga

We continue our focus on gaming applications for social networks with San Francisco-based Zynga. Founded in January 2007 by Mark Pincus, Zynga marries Pincus’s knowledge of social networks with his desire to create the next mass market video game phenomenon. Through his experience with Tribe Networks, which he founded in 2003, Pincus saw that the

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Deal Radar 2009: Zoosk

Today’s Deal Radar moves the spotlight from enterprise software and open source to a topic that has not made an appearance recently: online dating. Zoosk, a dating network, was founded by Alex Mehr and Shayan Zadeh. They had met as students at Sharif University of Technology, Iran, and reunited in January 2007 to start a

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New Facebook Group

Readers, we have a new Facebook group to continue incomplete discussions following all the different events we’re now participating in. Please feel free to start discussions on various topics related to entrepreneurship, and hopefully, we can help one another out.

Redesign That: Design That Moves Politics? (Part 2)

By Guest Authors Charley Bush and Kathy Hwang Continuing our exploration of ways to redesign political websites to engage young voters for the 2008 election, let’s dive into the core needs to consider. Honestly, we Millennials have never faced serious economic adversity until now. More than ever, we want to have a sense of control

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