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Overview We just finished listening to Mark Graban's interview with Lean Startup author Eris Ries. The two talk about Taiichi Ohno's influence on their lean methodologies. Taiichi Ohno is con...

Great Expecations You are always thinking up great ideas. Good, bad the ugly. Your bedside notebook is full of brilliant ideas to turn you into the next business billionare. One problem, you never ...

Blog Promotion Recently on Quora we read the questions: How do you promote your blog posts? and What are the best ways to increase traffic to a Personal Blog? We thought we would share our own expe...

Be Your Own Boss The new entrepreneur TV series "Be Your Own Boss" started a couple of weeks ago on the BBC. This is an extension to the BBC's portfolio of pop-business production...

Startups for the Rest of Us Mike Taber and Rob Walling record an awesome regular podcast called "Startups for the Rest of Us". It's aimed at helping developers, designers and entr...

tl;dr Twenty new Twitter followers in a week but a fall in our net position. Should social media sites allow users to end connections by stealth? Is Twitter the new watering hole for scammers and o...

tl;dr By using a Google AdWords credit voucher we learned an obvious lesson - buying traffic is expensive and Internet marketing (web marketing) is a science. Paid adverts can help compliment...

Last week we wrote about Fabrice Grinda, a serial startup entrepreneur. During a podcast interview he spoke about his experiences on building large successful businesses. On his blog he writes abou...

tl;dr Steve Blank tells the story how lack of startup framework led him to design customer development, and his pupil Eric Ries went on to build Lean Startup. The Lean Launchpad classes offer entre...

tl;dr Serial entrepreneur Fabrice Grinda shares his intriguing background with Andrew Warner (Mixergy). Grinda started at a young age selling computers and went on to build and sell larger business...

tl;dr We looked back on our last 10,000 page views. We found: 1) Traffic spikes help, 2) Being unloved hurts, 3) Google search Rocks, 4) Social media sux, 5) Google images draws in questionable tra...

A couple of months ago we asked you "what to expect?" and "how to prepare" for a startup weekend. Several readers replied and we are pleased to start sharing their responses...

Today we have added a new section to the Spark n Launch blog titled ‘Top Startup Tools‘. The page contains lists of helpful startup tools for entrepreneurs. We will continue to add to t...

Update: Ouya raised $8,596,475 from 63,416 backers! - tl;dr Video project breaks funding record on crowdfunding site. Raises over $8 million, well over their goal of $950,000. What does this mean f...

tl;dr Adzuna, a search engine for classified ads encourages users to share adverts via social media. In this instance, the prompt features a friendly photo of Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook founder). Ge...

Tweet This! Startups.co.uk have published a really helpful article getting your logo professionally designed. Your logo will be the face of your company and therefore has importantn consequences to...