Xconomy passes on some advice for startups trying to navigate the current economic gloom: Outwit, Outplay, Outlast.  

Serial entrepreneurs generally may be more attractive to VCs, but that doesn’t mean first-timers won’t get asked to dance. Bernard Lunn chronicles the ups and downs of first-time entrepreneurdom. Here’s an excerpt: As a first-time entrepreneur, you offer investors a trade-off. You will give them less experience than they’d want, but you will provide a [...]

So, you’ve got your business up and running. What’s next? The buzzword is always "innovate", but that doesn’t mean you have to move mountains.  In fact, just the opposite can be true. Business Week magazine tackled that issue with an article arguing that baby steps might be the smart way to go.   …This feeds [...]

A manned mission to Mars is no longer the stuff of Ray Bradbury science fiction. Placing men on the surface of Mars — OK, and women, too, geesh — and maintaining a presence there are things old sci-fi geeks may actually live to see. Well, our kids anyway. And what might those Mars astronauts be [...]