This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice.  Many entrepreneurs who start technology companies are product people, technologists or savvy business people who worked previously for a larger company.  Most start-up entrepreneurs have little

The idea of monetizing activity streams through in-stream advertisements is starting to gain greater acceptance, just as monetizing other aspects of your online social profiles starting to become a thing. At the recent Techcrunch50 event,

Greece holds national elections for its Prime Minister on Sunday October 4. This is a “snap election”, called by the incumbent Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis in what is regarded as either a savvy play to get a

LeVar Burton is pretty darn close to being a real-life superhero. He encouraged millions of children to ask what Burton calls the great “what if” questions by inspiring their love for reading during his years of

Doug Aamoth is the Reviews Editor for CrunchGear.com, a TechCrunch blog that covers gadgets, gear, and computer hardware. TechCrunch started in 2005 and CrunchGear was added to the network in 2006 when Michael Arrington

Yesterday I pledged that I wouldn’t write about Wave until I’ve had a chance to play with it myself. I always like it when Google does something innovative and is then rewarded with scads of hype,

If your company or product name can be misspelled, this is for you.

At Spigit, a prospective customer related this to us recently. A few months ago, they had heard of Spigit in one

We are at an interesting inflection point with Social Media today. One that threatens to disrupt and reinvent every function in your company over the next few years.

Social Media already has changed marketing forever. You

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Carri Bugbee is the principal and founder of Big Deal PR. An entrepreneur, seasoned writer and project manager with experience at great agencies like Wieden + Kennedy, Carri is also the person behind @PeggyOlson