This month we caught up with Gina Waldhorn of Evol8tion – an agency that is taking an innovative approach by “brokering” marketing and potential investment relationships between startups and Fortune 500 brands. Evol8tion’s belief is that each startup has a brand “soul mate” and no startup is too small or too niche to match with a [...]
Working from home for the first time can be rewarding and exciting, but it is often also challenging. Have no fear, Wicked Start has 1. Discipline This might seem obvious, but often people quickly lose discipline when working from home. With no boss watching you, no set schedule or any of the other controls that [...]
March’s Wicked Starter of the month is Relocality‘s founder, Diane Szoke. Diane combined her extensive years working in real estate and marketing and her passion for both industries to found her startup – Relocality – a unique app that matches consumers with neighborhoods, properties and service providers with whom they are most compatible. Relocality focuses on the intersection of [...]
More and more Americans, due to job loss or the good old “American Dream”, are leaving the corporate world to start their own business. While some strike out to create a new industry, or move in an entirely different direction than their career path, most decide to start businesses in the sector and area where they have worked previously [...]
More and more you see articles, news segments and websites pushing people to start their own business. I think the promotion and proliferation of information and motivational material for startups and budding entrepreneurs are great, but can be a bit misleading. I say this because often it leads people to have the impression that anyone can be a successful business owner. After 15 years [...]
February’s Wicked Starter of the month is Oscar Pedroso: co-founder of Osnick, the iphone app equivalent of a”tour-guide in your pocket” and founder of MBAWritersBlock, an online tool that provides MBA applicants with free and valuable resources. Oscar has been a long supporter of Wicked Start and he finds Wicked Start’s roadmap useful for providing a [...]
Guess what? The Wicked Start roadmap rewards you for all the hard work you do. After you complete all the action items of a step, there will be an “output” produced. For example, after you complete step 1, Wicked Start provides you with an organized and customized business concept statement which you can use to [...]
It’s two o’clock in the morning and you’re sitting at the computer working on an important project that’s going to take your business to the next level. As you sit there for a second, you realize you’ve been working on this particular task for almost 10 hours straight, 7 days in a row. You scratch your head, [...]
Lisa Vura-Weiss is the aspiring entrepreneur who won our Startup Smart business pitch contest back in November. Currently at Columbia Business School,Vura-Weiss pitched an innovative business idea: incentivize people with chronic illnesses to participate in long-term healthy practices. Inspired by the energy, motivation and creativity she exhibited at the pitch contest and impressed with her [...]
We’re proud of the hundreds of resources that we’ve been compiling – free and low cost entrepreneurial tools (and massive discounts on these tools) for Wicked Starters. The only problem was that our previous set up was difficult to maneuver around. Inspired by Wicked Starter feedback, we decided to scrap the initial resources page with the options [...]