I decided yesterday to take a day’s break from working on or even thinking about my startup idea, and boy was it difficult. I hadn’t realised until then just how much I was consumed by my idea. I knew that I was paying less and less attention to pretty much everything else. This month, for the [...]

Mahalo – the latest and somewhat controversial entrant to the search engine space – is reported to employ about 40 editors who manually edit search results in order to provide spam-free and therefore better results for its users. I can’t help but think that these editors would be better utilised by allowing users to rate search results and [...]

Is it me or is there a certain degree of irony in the fact that Internet consumers, who only recently went from paying for virtually (pun intended) everything on the web to paying for nothing (freemium), are now collectively spending vast amounts on virtual goods?

While searching for cheap web app development resource it occurred to me that one could make a business of coaching prison inmates to write web applications while in prison and upon their release – real life applications paid for by bootstrapping entrepreneurs with no programming skills. Snigger all you want at this idea but a really [...]

Since entrepreneurship can be a risky affair, aspiring entrepreneurs are often advised to keep their day jobs, start slowly and quit regular employment only when their business has taken off to some degree. A sound and sensible approach you might think but this is not as easy at it sounds. I personally believe that to truly excel in [...]