Likes UP: Startup School and the Entrepreneur Way

Likes UP: Startup School and the Entrepreneur’s Way

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Are you a hacker who has thought about one day starting a startup? Have you already started it? Then you’re invited to a free, one-day startup school ( just finished on October 29 at Stanford University.)

Presenting are a range of experts speaking about startups from their own experience.

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Entrepreneurial Insights

A look at the innovative ways small businesses are adapting and growing in a changing economic climate

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By Kristina Dell Oct 24, 2011

Technological advances make it increasingly easy to launch a company all by oneself. But for reasons that range from business strategy to lifestyle to temperament, solo entrepreneurs are increasingly determined to keep things that way.

There are downsides to striking out on your own. Landlords don’t like self-employed businesspeople and getting a mortgage or a small business loan can be tough. Plus, being a solo practitioner is time consuming. “Sometimes months go by and all I did was work,”  says Maciej Ceglowski, 36, founder of the website Pinboard, a paid social-bookmarking service that lets subscribers archive web links with annotations and share them with friends. (“If Instapaper is the beautiful reading room, I’m the dusty attic,” he says.)

You can save your pinboard notes and links either as public or private.

 

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