Articles By: Bill Attinger

Are You Part of the 50% that Survives?

Do you want to be a statistic or a success? Don’t become one of the 50% of companies that fail. Join other focused, dedicated professionals who use ActSeed’s cost-effective resources to help avoid wrong turns, poor decisions and bad investments.” Business planning is more than helpful. It is...

June 25th, 2010 | Featured | Read More

Community Colleges on the Front Lines of Business Creation

Incubators within the community college environment are excellent venues to cultivate nascent businesses. About a week ago, we toured a shining example of how a community college district can play a direct role in new business creation and job creation. We met with Gustavo Chamorro, Director of...

May 19th, 2010 | People, Money, Momentum | Read More

DMC Works!

ActSeed is proud to partner with the Rancho Santiago Community College District’s Digital Media Center (DMC). The DMC business incubator offers a dynamic workspace for 10 to 15 emerging digital media companies accompanied by a wide variety of business support services. Established in August 2006,...

May 8th, 2010 | Partners | Read More

If You’re Raising Capital (and you probably are), Read This Book

“You can tell a story in a sentence; you can tell a story in a paragraph; and you can tell a story in a 20-minute pitch. Startups need to do all three.” – from “Pitching Hacks” introduction I’ll try...

May 6th, 2010 | Tips, Tools, Services | Read More

How to Get More “Information” and Less “Technology” from IT

Information technology is often a “third rail” of small business planning. IT is empowering …until it’s crippling. Planning and managing IT infrastructure in a small business usually seems massively distracting and expensive, right? If you’re one of the rare companies...

April 30th, 2010 | Tips, Tools, Services | Read More

Thoughts on Community-Building & “Multi-Sided Markets”

I’m often asked about my approach to building a community like ActSeed. There are many more failures than successes as few aspiring startups can build a critical mass of participants needed to feed the activity required to make a marketplace or community useful. A recent post (”Two-Sided...

April 25th, 2010 | People, Money, Momentum | Read More

Pay for Performance: How Confident PR Firms Are Putting Your Money Where Their Mouth Is

RNN9JSHBCTWX I see more and more service models offering pay-for-performance options. Companies and business leaders accountable for hitting goals with marketing and PR budgets are constantly looking for ways to add certainty to their marketing and PR investments. We entrepreneurs are always looking...

April 13th, 2010 | Tips, Tools, Services | Read More

Leadership through Crazy Dance

Thanks to Derek Sivers (http://www.sivers.org) for creating this vignette and thanks to John Burke (http://twitter.com/justonlyjohn) for tipping me off about Derek’s mini-masterpiece. An uninhibited dancer gives us a peek into some of the fundamentals of leadership – not just for what he...

April 6th, 2010 | Entrepreneurship Applied | Read More

Congrats, Immitter – a DEMO 2010 Spring Alpha Pitch Company!

As I write this, Immitter’s Co-founder, CEO and ActSeed Charter Member is probably on stage at DEMO 2010. He’s likely impressing the investors there as his business has the potential to be a significant player in the music space. Immitter is short for “Internet Music Transmitter”. ...

March 22nd, 2010 | Entrepreneurship Applied | Read More

Getting into the Slipstream of Blogging: Technorati

Join Technorati and make sure you take time to profile your business blog there. Technorati is one of the leading blog search engines – and much more. Participating in the Technorati community will increase your blog’s visibility and help you reach people who would benefit from viewing...

March 20th, 2010 | Tips, Tools, Services | Read More