Articles about Guest Posts – Page 8 of 12

How to make a shower karaoke with your iPad

Have you heard this coming from your neighbor’s shower in the morning: “Just small town girl, livin’ in a lonely… Read More

Think different: How an entrepreneur makes decisions to go camping

Entrepreneurs have an interesting perspective on decision-making. For one, they do a lot of it. But moreover, I believe they… Read More

Why you ought to change your business model

No matter how prepared you are for the future, how satisfied you are with your customers or how well you are positioned… Read More

The Founders’ Promise: Put your money where your angst is

“There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of… Read More

Eliminating meetings: 8 ways to tackle the biggest time-waster in your business

You’ve heard it (or probably said it) many times before: “I can’t wait to get out of all these meetings… Read More

How big brands can finally fix their massive social media problems

It probably shouldn’t come as a surprise that big brands like The Gap or CSV struggle with social media. They… Read More

Guest column: Let’s celebrate the geeks who ‘GiveBig’

Today is Seattle Foundation’s 1-day GiveBIG challenge. Seattleites will compete for $500,000 in matching donations for their favorite local charities.… Read More

Why Facebook’s purchase of Instagram won’t be its last

With Facebook’s IPO pending, the social media mammoth has been bolstering user offerings and analytics capabilities with major acquisitions, most… Read More

Keeping your workplace culture on the cutting edge

As a tech community, most of us were impacted by the “Great Recession.” As the business climate improves, it’s also… Read More

Productivity Porn: How to achieve ‘inbox zero’ in 60 minutes or less

Whether you perpetually have hundreds if not thousands of emails in your inbox, or you’re coming back from a long… Read More

Instagram’s billion dollar idea wasn’t photos after all

I wasn’t alone in almost spilling my coffee mid-drink when I discovered Facebook purchased Instagram for $1 billion. A billion?… Read More

Amazon Web Services: A year after the big outage, one startup’s perspective

It’s hard to believe that it’s been a year since the big April 2011 Amazon Web Services outage. But we… Read More

A Glympse of the future in Seattle’s South Lake Union

My first clue that something had changed forever was the police. In bright yellow vests, they descended on the area,… Read More

What your startup ought to know about Google search updates

If you don’t keep up with the top search engine blogs or Google’s own search blog, then you likely miss… Read More

The battle to train a market: Instagram is what Facebook has been telling you guys to do for like a year, okay?

By now, it’s probably been brought to your attention that Facebook bought Instagram for a billion dollars on Monday, valuing… Read More

How to find that special someone: Your co-founder

My fiancee isn’t the jealous type but she likes to joke that I’m already married to my co-founder. Paul and I are… Read More

Productivity Porn: 8 key steps to going paperless

I love paper. I hate paper. Independent of format, print or digital, what I want is information at my fingertips… Read More

Hey, startups, users aren’t free

“Seattle’s great at building technology, but we don’t understand marketing. San Francisco’s great at marketing. That’s why great B-to-C companies… Read More

Robotic fish swim the stories of the dead, design the future

A fish may not need a bicycle, but a bicycle could learn a lot about the mechanics of movement from… Read More

Social purpose corporations: Good business can now do good

We all know that entrepreneurs and investors in startups hope to make money. Conveniently, the traditional corporate form allows that. … Read More

6 do-or-die tactics for Facebook success in 2012

While social sites like Pinterest and Tumblr are growing like wildfire and offering marketers plenty of opportunity to leverage new… Read More

Fiddling with user timelines: A wrong turn for Twitter?

As social web services proliferate, I’m finding Twitter, my first love, the only one that’s truly become a natural feature… Read More

The JOBS Act means different things to different people in the startup community

The Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act cleared its final legislative hurdle today. It is now on its way to… Read More

Productivity Porn: 7 tricks for beating procrastination

We procrastinate for a variety of reasons. Fear. Intimidation. Laziness. Distractions. All reasonable obstacles. But if you’re prioritized your tasks… Read More

Owning a hacker space: Q&A with Matt Westervelt of Metrix

When you walk into Metrix Create: Space in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle, it’s hard to know exactly what… Read More

An advanced guide to using Instagram to build your brand

It’s the pictures, stupid. That’s basically what the people at Facebook will tell you when it comes to the most… Read More

The irony of ‘Homeless Hotspots’ at SXSW

I was walking down Sixth Street, buried in my phone, when my husband, Jason, noticed something and stopped. I didn’t… Read More

7 common SEO mistakes you’ve been making since 1995

As an industry, SEO has been around since 1995, born during the early days of Yahoo. It really began to… Read More

How technology should be used to spur open government

The Washington Coalition for Open Government organized a conference this weekend to commemorate the 40th anniversary of our state’s landmark Initiative… Read More

Productivity Porn: 7 ways to achieve work/life balance

Productivity too often can become more than a means to an end. If left unchecked, being more productive can simply… Read More