You need to think outside the box in a 360 degree angle when it comes to your startup and your cash flow needs to be included in order for your idea to take off. Money is always on the minds of business owners, creating a company from the ground up is no easy task and keeping tabs on your business’s finances can prove difficult yet remaining informed about your cash flow is what will keep your dream of having a tech startup alive. …

The online lyrics industry is one in which “few thought [adding value] could be done,” according to Rand Fishkin. But a new website, Crackerize.com, has entered the scene and is bringing new meaning to old rap songs. Crackerize.com provides a platform for users to register as members and submit their interpretations of rap lyrics. With the tagline “rap lyrics translated into English,” Crackerize.com takes a tongue-in-cheek approach to re-interpreting lyrics which are often difficult to comprehend. For example, the site “translates” the title of Nelly Furtado’s hit song…

After doubling its users in February, growth slowed dramatically in March down to 1 million new users or 5% growth. It supposedly has investors and others worried. They shouldn’t be. We’ve seen this before and we’ll see it again, and Pinterest will hit its next big user bump by July. This is part of the cycle that hot startups almost always have to go through to get to the next level. Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr – all of them experienced a burst of growth that could be attributed to the tech-savvy cutting edgers out there who latch onto new sites and determine if they’re addiction-worthy or not. Once…

Things didn’t look good for Bill Nguyen’s latest startup, Color. They announced their funding on March 23rd of last year and by the next day there were bloggers and tech journalists all asking pretty much the same question: “How does an iPhone photo-sharing app land that kind of money before showing that they have something special?” When a satirical pitch deck emerges making fun of your app and more specifically the people who invested in it, things are bound to get ugly. It’s been a year since the launch. Did the app prove to be successful? Did they prove the silly naysayers wrong? Are they on the…