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New Business

How can start-ups, small businesses, non-profits and charities take advantage of new technologies to build successful business and social systems at minimal cost

Technology Choices

• Check out Online Services for list of free and/or subscription-based online services for business
• If you are a non-profit, checkout Google's dedicated page for non-profits

Take Advantage of Web 2.0

• 20 types of pages that every blogger should consider - blog post (Mar 08) by Darren Rowse, highlighting how you can use a mix of posts and pages (on WordPress) to create a full and dynamic web site
• Google for CRM; Twitter for Sales - JD blog posts about leveraging web-based services

Start-up Advice

• Don't fear failure, learn from it - blog post (Mar 08) by Chip Griffin, highlighting the different failure traps and how to avoid and/or learn from them
• Entrepreneurial proverbs - O'Reilly blog post (May 08) some great nuggets of wisdom