SuiteMatch appears to have launched a marketplace for shared office space in New York City. NYC startups could surely use just such a service! Currently, users can list spaces for free as well as search the listings for free. There are 22 listings with prices from the $500’s-$5,000 per month. SuiteMatch is a great service, but the trick will be whether or not they can spread awareness of their brand and website to the point that folks outside of other startups will create listings. Also... Read Full Story

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGvkZszS21Y Louise: You know…Lisa’s husband just found out he has cancer Harry: But, he’s covered, right? Louise: No! He just joined a startup and he can’t afford a plan -Commercial from HarryandLouisereturn.com (see video above). Part of a campaign to increase healthcare awareness Read Full Story

“We measure the strength of our economy not by the number of billionaires we have or the profits of the Fortune 500, but by whether someone with a good idea can take a risk and start a new business, or whether the waitress who lives on tips can take a day off to look after a sick kid without losing her job - an economy that honors the dignity of work. The fundamentals we use to measure economic strength are whether we are living up to that fundamental promise that has made this country great... Read Full Story

People say you can tell a lot about someone’s character based on how they handle defeat. I have been faced with a number of rejections lately and figured I’d post on some of the types of responses available. Since the majority of the rejections I’ve received have taken place over email, the focus of this post is in responding via email. Ultimately I think some response is better than no response. Say Nothing: Sometimes you think this an impressive response indicating that things are going... Read Full Story

The following are some welcoming remarks I gave the incoming MBA class at the Carey Business School of Johns Hopkins University this past weekend [Saturday, August 23rd, 2008]. My name is Sam Huleatt and I graduated with an MBA in finance only a few months ago. I am really delighted to give this year’s Alumni welcome to the incoming class because my experience at Hopkins is one that has already had a profound impact on my life and I love opportunities where I can express how well I fee my... Read Full Story

Neat trick… Just because some competitor’s blog shows 10,000 subscribers…don’t take it at face value Feedburner hacked! from Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on Vimeo. Read Full Story

The following is a guest post, submitted by John from MeetingWave. John is competing to win a free ticket to the Web 2.0 Expo in New York and he’s passionate about  the need to reform healthcare. Enjoy. — In order to save our healthcare system, we need big compromises from everyone. First, trial lawyers need to accept tort reform. I recall the NYT times editorial this past year that asserted that trial costs are “less than 5% of health care costs” - First, that’s a really big number. Second... Read Full Story

This week I’ve been corresponding a bit with Eric Norlin, one of the creators of Defrag. For those unfamiliar, Defrag is really the thinking man/woman’s conference assembling some of the brightest minds in technology in a non-valley setting (Denver, Colorado). According to the website the focus of Defrag is “solely on the tools and technologies that are leveraging the “social” aspect of software to accelerate the “aha” moment.” Speaking of aha moments… Eric is located in South Florida and has... Read Full Story

I know my blogging has been a bit inconsistent this summer and for that I apologize. I’m hoping to get back on track starting now! The awesome folks at TechWeb and O’Reilly Media are letting me attend Web 2.0 New York (September 16-19th) and have also offered two TOTALLTY FREE tickets to give away for readers of LeveragingIdeas! For anyone who has never attended an O’Reilly conference they are THE events for anyone in the web 2.0/startup space. It’s an amazing opportunity to listen to some... Read Full Story

Entrepreneurship is extremely difficult. The road is paved with ambiguities, ups and downs and strained relationships. But there is one certainty – the entrepreneurs with a superior psychology are the ones who ultimately triumph. Paul Graham has an amazing essay on fundraising he published this month. It’s a must read. Paul gets at this very notion. Unlike say, pro basketball, entrepreneurship doesn’t discriminate based on things outside an individual’s control like speed, size or sheer... Read Full Story