7 Strategies for Maximizing Your Startup Budget

Being an entrepreneur is risky business. We've all read stories of startup companies that spent too much money getting off the ground and crash upon takeoff. Managing your money when you have very little coming in the door is tricky - but it's not impossible.

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This Impressive, Upcoming Jailbreak Tweak Adds Growl-Like Notifications To iPad -- AppAdvice

Do you love Growl for OS X? If so, you may be excited to hear that an upcoming jailbreak tweak called NotiPad promises to add a Growl-like notification interface to jailbroken iPads, according to iDownloadBlog. Once downloaded and installed, the standard banner notifications Apple added in iOS 5 are replaced by pop-up notifications, as you can see in the above image.

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How Innovation Is More Poetry Than Science

In a recent conversation with former Phil McKinney, HP Chief Innovation Officer and author of Beyond the Obvious: Killer Questions That Spark Game-Changing Innovation, we discussed innovation and theory. McKinney said that much of the literature about innovation comes from theorists, not practitioners.

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Sarah Penna: The Most Influential New Media Entrepreneur You've Never Heard Of

Having made the transition from cable TV to YouTube, 28-year-old Sarah Penna is shaking up the Web video landscape with fresh ideas and digital attitude. Penna cut her teeth as a producer of reality television for cable channels like Discovery, HBO, Oxygen and Bravo.

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Amazon launches database-friendly SSD-backed instances

A new type of compute instance just added to Amazon's EC2 menu targets high I/O jobs including NoSQL database applications. The new "High I/O Quadruple Extra Large" instances store and retrieve lots of data very fast - a characteristic required by interactive web and mobile applications in which real-time response to user clicks and gestures is key.

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