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Check out this great webisode featured on Rise to the Top! See how Shoeboxed can help you stay organized as an entrepreneur.
Awesome Entrepreneur Web Resource-Shoeboxed

“Recession” seems to have become the new “Y2K.” In other words, it is the popular catch phrase on everyone’s lips this year as they foretell the catastrophic decline of our society as we know it. All those doom-and-gloomers back in 1999 found that the Y2K problem turned out just fine, and I am optimistic that [...]

Hopefully in the years to come, we will be able to look back on the current recession and say in our best Dickensian voices: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times….”
 
The reasons for why it is the worst of times are obvious: massive lay-offs, skyrocketing unemployment rates, lost retirement nest [...]

For those of you who took my sage advice last week and decided to start your own business, here are some great tax tips courtesy of the IRS Newswire:
Here are the top seven things the IRS wants you to know if you plan on opening a new business this year.

First, you must decide what type [...]

No. We aren’t.
 
There’s my two cents, but for the sake of making this post more interesting, let me elaborate.
 
In BusinessWeek’s Small Biz blog on July 1, John Tozzi explored whether entrepreneurship is on the decline using Scott Shane’s data from the New York Times that it is declining, and Steve King’s data from Small Business [...]

As a motivated 23-year-old woman, Alison Shuback had her whole life ahead of her. But when a near-fatal car crash left her partially paralyzed, her life changed in an instant.
But she never gave up, and as her medical bills mounted, she looked for an entrepreneurial business idea to make the money she needed to pay [...]

President-Elect Barack Obama plans to invest $250 million in government funds into business incubators every year as president, totaling $1 billion over four years. The move, which he says will encourage entrepreneurship by faciliating networking, business mentorships, and the free flow of innovative ideas, is part of an overarching strategy to help stop the bleeding [...]

Entrepreneurship Week at Duke University is starting today, and we just wanted to let everyone know about some of the great events planned.
As you may know, Shoeboxed was founded by Duke undergraduates more than 2 years ago, and is located just a few blocks from Duke’s campus in Durham, NC. As part of the Research [...]

Individual taxpayers e-filed almost 90 million tax returns during 2008, an increase of more than 12 percent over the prior year. Of the 155 million tax returns filed, about 58 percent were filed electronically.
“More people with home computers and businesses embraced electronic filing this year,” said IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman. “Every year, more people realize [...]

The Industry Standard has released the results of the Industry Standard 100 Awards! After a public vote and a editorial review of Shoeboxed, we have been awarded second place in the Productivity category!
We’re humbled to have been ranked so high, as there were many great applications both in our category and throughout the 10 categories [...]

Shoeboxed has been nominated for an Industry Standard 100 Award in their Productivity category. The awards are to recognize the most innovative companies out there. And best of all, the community chooses the winner. Make sure to vote for Shoeboxed!

From their website:
The Industry Standard Innovation 100 Awards — or the TIS 100 for short — [...]

Last week I had a great conversation with Sharon McLoone, who writes about small businesses for the Washington Post. She wrote about us today in a great story that you can read here:

Here is an excerpt:
Shoeboxed’s goal is to make it easy for a consumer to digitize, organize, analyze and export receipts, which the company [...]

There was a study that came out a few days ago that we found kind of interesting. Duke researchers found that the majority of tech entrepreneurs are not the 20-something wunderkinds that seem to be the stereotype these days. We, as 20-somethings, have something to say about THAT.
Most U.S.-born technology and engineering company founders are [...]

Taylor and Rolf spent a good deal of time over at the CED Venture Conference that was hosted at Duke’s on-campus hotel, The Washington Duke. They met lots of great people this weekend.
We hung out with the team from Grooveshark, a legal music sharing website that looks to have gotten their hands on a great [...]

I always enjoy it when journalists write about the emerging innovative economy that we have here in Durham. We’re certainly excited to be a part of it here, and we hope it continues to expand! One particular article was written today in the Miami Herald, where Shoeboxed was featured a few months ago. The article [...]