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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

One great thing about being next to Duke University is that we get to sit in on a lot of national and international conferences about topics relevant to Shoeboxed. Today, I am sitting in on a conference about intellectual property and ecommerce, two things we are obviously interested in over here.

Conference website.
The people involved in [...]

We’re used to receiving inquiries from bloggers and print media representatives who want to write about Shoeboxed, and we really enjoy every opportunity to put our message out there and reach out to existing and future members. But today we got the opportunity to spread the word of Shoeboxed via a different medium: Radio!
A [...]

I like finding stuff on the internet about Duke and its burgeoning entrepreneurship scene. Shoeboxed is certainly a part of this movement toward encouraging entrepreneurship, so I like spreading the news as well.
Jim Roberts, the founding executive director of the Blue Ridge Entrepreneurial Council and the Blue Ridge Angel Investors Network, wrote a column the [...]

First of all, I just wanted to say Happy New Year, as this is our first entry of 2008!
In the first few days of this year, lots of people in the U.S. will be focusing their attention to Iowa, watching with great interest what will happen in Thursday’s caucuses. But today, I’m thinking more about [...]

 Shoeboxed is a whole new website, baby.
We’ve worked on our receipt organization, and made it better than ever. With Friday’s upgrade, it’s easier to put receipts into your account, sort them once you’re here, and put those receipts to work.
This is what we were wondering back in January. What if receipts started giving back? What [...]

Someone e-mailed our help account today with a simple complaint. It’s kind of a pain to write in the price and store for each receipt that you upload to Shoeboxed. Yeah, we get that. But you know what’s great? With new technology that we’ve developed, that small annoyance will soon be a thing of the [...]

Earlier today I had the opportunity to read a particularly insightful interview with Richard Brodhead, President of Duke University. It originally aired on June 16th on China Radio International (CRI), China’s only worldwide radio station.[link] The interview was conducted by Xing Zong, a fourth year Ph.D. student at Duke University. He had [...]

Shoeboxed.com. We’re looking to change the Duke start-up scene in a big way. Although we are currently in Berlin, Germany focusing on our launch, we will be moving to Durham in the fall – and there’s so much to be excited about. Soon we will offer a free service to help people automatically [...]

The fact that Duke University is so quaintly located in Durham, NC was probably a deterrent for most students who were considering enrolling. However, four years later, chances are that this average Duke student will proudly claim their loyalty to Durham and display no sign of regret. The area is simply awesome.
Corporations, entrepreneurs, and anyone [...]