The StartUp Blog at PartnerUp

 

Welcome to this week’s Carnival of The Capitalists. 

This blog (The StartUp Blog) is a brand new blog that we just launched last week and we’re honored to have the chance to host the carnival. We’ll be focusing entirely on entrepreneurial, startup, and small business topics and will feature a variety of content ranging from Q&A’s with successful entrepreneurs, startup news, tips and advice on building a business, and more!

This blog is written by members of the PartnerUp team, including Steve, Dane, and Mike. In case you’re wondering what PartnerUp is, it’s a social network for entrepreneurs, startups, small businesses, and people who are interested in getting involved in business. If you get a chance, check it out. We’re sure that you’ll find it interesting.

We received some great submissions this week, so without further ado, here’s the carnival:
 

Editor’s Choice

Rob presents The Introvert’s Guide To Selling posted at Businesspundit.

Tim Berry presents Do You Need a Business Plan? at The StartUp Blog.

Leon Gettler presents Interview with Brian Bacon, head of the Oxford Leadership Academy posted at Sox First.

Mike Buckley presents Bad Ideas posted at Mine Your Own Business.

Jay Deragon presents The Creativity Factors posted at A Relationship Economy…. With Whom & What.

  

Sales and Marketing

Gavin Ingham presents Stand up if you like cold calling! posted at Gavin Ingham.

Anita Campbell presents Tracking Trends: It is All in the Data at SmallBizTrends.

Douglas Karr presents Blogs are not Forums - Making them a Great Corporate Marketing Tool  on Marketing Technology Blog.

Drew McLellan presents Are you giving your marketing tactics enough time? at Drew’s Marketing Minute.

  

Technology and Innovation

Karel Vandenberghe presents Best Practice Open Innovation & Crowdsourcing Examples posted at Open Innovators - Open innovation and crowdsourcing.

Erick Schonfeld presents E-Commerce Sales Up 23 % in Q3 at TechCrunch.

Graeme Thickins presents Compellent: Three Guys in a Basement to an IPO at Tech~Surf~Blog.

Jack Yoest presents Management of New Media: 4 Lessons From The Washington Briefing posted at Yoest.com.

  

Leadership and Management

Wolly Bock presents Leadership development: The way we do things now posted at Three Start Leadership blog.

John Crenshaw presents Are You Proactive or Reactive? posted at Dominate Your Life.

Michelle Cramer presents Taking Business Ques from Nintendo posted at GreatFX Business Cards.

Steven Lohrenz presents Giving Is the Beginning of Receiving posted at Steven Lohrenz.

John Crickett presents How To Motivate Employees posted at Business Opportunities And Ideas.

Wayne Hurlbert presents Recession proof your business posted at Blog Business World.

Andy Birol presents Commitment and Independence: Your Greatest Entrepreneurial Strengths! posted at Birol’s Blog.

wilson ng presents SME 1- Should you get an MBA? posted at Reflections of a BizDrivenLife.

Pamela Slim presents Reality vs. theory in a high-growth, bootstrapping business at Escape from Cubicle Nation.

Tony Clark presents The Life of an Entrepreneur Is Like Picture-In-Picture at Success from The Nest.

Scott Allen presents The Important of Income Automation at Scott Allen’s Entrepreneurs Blog.

Dee Barizo presents The Secret to Getting Motivated at Net Business Blog.

Shannon Cherry presents Begin with the end at StartupSpark.

Dane Fox presents Negotiating Tips for Startups at The StartUp Blog.

  

Finance and Investing

FIRE Finance presents TIPS for Inflation and Deflation! posted at FIRE Finance.

Matthew Paulson presents How To Keep Your Money Federally Insured After the $100,000 FDIC Limit posted at FinanceIsPersonal.com.

Amy L. Fontinelle presents Alternatives to Investing in Socially Responsible Funds posted at Saving Advice Blog.

Charles H. Green presents Short-termism, ROI and Green Economics posted at Trust Matters.

FMF presents Key to Credit Card Success: Pick the Right Credit Card for Your Spending Habits posted at Free Money Finance.

Dereck presents If At All Possible, Leave Your Chips On The Table posted at The Best Stock Trading in the World.

Sanjay Kumar presents Getting paid faster posted at SimplifyThis.

George presents A review of Active Value Investing, the book on Fat Pitch Financials.

  

The Economy, Law, Government, and Policy

Silicon Valley Blogger presents Nope, Not Selling Our House. Not Even For 1000% Rate Of Return In 2 Years! posted at The Digerati Life.

Henry Stern discusses Health care at InsureBlog.

James Hamilton of Econbrowser examines some of the long-run factors behind this week’s new highs for oil prices in Why is oil above $90?

Menzie Chinn of Econbrowser presents Have Net Exports Ever Prevented the U.S. from Going into Recession?

Ian Welsh presents There’s No Free Lunch In Private Equity Or Nursing Care posted at The Agonist.

rocketc presents The Ethics of Rewards Credit Cards posted at rocket finance.

Stirling Newberry presents Don’t shoot your friends posted at The Agonist.

Adam presents Peaked oil posted at Sophistpundit.

                 
 

Thanks for stopping by. We’re excited to officially launch PartnerUp’s StartUp Blog today.

This blog will feature news, trends, strategies, and advice for startups and entrepreneurs.

The blog is written by members of the PartnerUp team, including Steve, Dane, and Mike.

PartnerUp is a social network for entrepreneurs, startups, small businesses, and people who are interested in getting involved in business. We come across hundreds of questions and stories from entrepreneurs each week and we decided that a blog would be a great place to offer some insight, share our thoughts, offer up some resources, and share some success stories from entrepreneurs.

Initially, we’ll be updating this blog daily. But, we hope to start publishing much more frequently within the next month or two.

We hope that you enjoy the blog!

If you have any suggestions for how we can improve the blog, please drop us a note at startupblog (-at-) partnerup.com.