Kiva.org, a “peer-to-peer online microlending nonprofit organization,” is successful largely because of the organization’s ability to humanize the lending experience.  Kiva’s Field Partners lend to and profile aspiring entrepreneurs, including photographs and stories in the entrepreneur’s profile.  Lenders, members of the general public, browse Kiva, select an entrepreneur’s profile, and lend funds via PayPal or [...]

Ever find yourself bored and wanting something to do.. well why not stumble. Stumbleupon is a site that brings up sites from all over the web. All you have to do is go to stumbleupon.com and fill out the form that asks for interests. This insures that the sites being generated are in your field [...]

If you are interested in entrepreneurship of any sort I urge you to check out kiva. Kiva is a place where people can get on the world wide web and help to fund the dreams of entrepreneurs from all over the globe. With a donation (repaid by entrepreneur) as low as 25 dollars, donors are [...]

I was never much of a youtube user until I came to college. Now it seems like friends of mine put stuff up there and send me links all the time. It’s incredibly fun to be able to do this – and is also ridiculously easy. Below is a particularly fine example. [...]

VEVO is one of the best additions to the internet in the past year. it is owned by Sony Corp.  and hosted by Youtube.  It post’s music videos from three of the four big labels.  Universal, Sony and EMI. Vevo however is not available to users in all countries. Vevo also lets you create playlists.  similiar to grooveshark. check [...]

Reading through the Top 20 Young Internet Entrepreneurs Under 21, the work of Harrison Gevirtz stands out.  His website, www.CPAShare.com is a blog which shares the 17 year old’s online and offline entrepreneurial experiences.  I was intrigued by a post titled How to make money on Facebook with Local Ads.  Harrison walks through the steps [...]

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Social media is the way to go these days if you want to reach a larger target market for less money, and who doesn’t want that?  Web features such as “Rate this product” and “Comment on this product” tell people a lot more about a product than a companies own biased ads, and people seem [...]

In April 2009 the New York Times reported that Google, which acquired YouTube for the large price-tag of $1.65 billion was struggling to make it profitable. A year later, Google has found at least one way to increase the sites popularity with marketers, most notably movie studios. Just today, AdAge reported that YouTube has, “morphed into [...]

Many people recently comment on the commercial potential and business opportunities provided by YouTube.  This is certainly true, and examples have been seen countless times.  But it also affords at a basic level the unique opportunity for someone to connect with potentially millions of other people and share something important, or convicting, or inspirational.  Obviously [...]