3 Traps to Avoid When Launching Your Startup

When starting your business, learn from mistakes – both yours and others. By Quynh Pham (Founder & CEO, TourNative) The startup idea for a new travel marketplace came after noticing, while backpacking through South America, how hard it was to meet local people and...

Let Ideas Sneak Up on You

This week’s Founder Friday Boston speaker explains how she found the idea for her latest venture in an unexpected place.  By Beth Marcus (CEO & Founder, Playrific, Inc.) One of the most important things I tell entrepreneurs is to be as open as you can be to...

The Unexotic Underclass

Looking for a startup idea? Look beyond the needs of well educated urbanites with money to burn to the kind of people with serious problems in need of solving. By C.Z. Nnaemeka (Writer, MIT Entrepreneurship Review) The startup scene today, and by ‘scene’ I’m sweeping...

The 9 Best Industries for Women’s Startups in 2013

You can start up in any area that you love and that are confident will make you a profit, but it can be hard to know exactly which industries offer the best opportunities for female founders. The good news? We’ve found nine to get you started. By Holly Mangan...
Trade Trade Secrets: Revolutionary Ideas

Trade Trade Secrets: Revolutionary Ideas

Startups are in a race against time, not others. By Danielle Fong (Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, Lightsail Energy) Your revolution will not be stolen. Great ideas can’t change the world by themselves. They need people. There are two kinds of revolutionary ideas....