On the heels of Groupon’s $135 Million round (and $1 billion valuation), Living Social has stepped up to the plate with a new $14 million C round, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with U.S. Venture Partners, Grotech Ventures and Steve Case’s Revolution, LLC participating.  The new money gives Living Social a total of $39 million...Read More

Small Business Should Use Their Telephones More Telemarketing has a bad reputation, and that puts many Entrepreneurs off using it in their business. This can mean you losing out on a fortune. Because, approached correctly – and that means intelligently and sensitively – it is possible to use the telephone for sophisticated telephone marketing, which...Read More

Question-and-answer session of Panel 1 conducted by Ranking Member Mary Fallin (R-OK) at the House Small Business Committee, Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight hearing on The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act and Small Business on May 14, 2009Read More

Prominent blog network operator Gawker Media paid only $5,000 for the biggest tech scoop ever, but the total cost is proving to be far greater for Gawker Media. As has been widely reported, police raided the home of Gawker Media employee Jason Chen. Chen is an editor for Gawker-owned Gizmodo, and is the man seen...Read More

The deal-a-day phenomenon pioneered by Groupon has spawned direct attacks on the model from a wide variety of companies. Newspapers, social sites and others are all going at it. But how about gift card providers? Adility Founder Thomas Cornelius, a longtime veteran of the gift card industry, thinks the synergies are huge. His 20 person...Read More