Back 9 Biz Bites: A two-party Labor Day

Cool links about startups, entrepreneurs, and random stuff for Friday, August 31:

1. Labor Day and the future of America.
2. The biggest Labor Day layoffs.
3. Grooveshark re-kicked out of Google Play.
4. The case for living with mom and dad.
5. 20 great Twitter handles going to waste.
6. Awesome gloves that are also a phone.
7. Four pillars of making a truly great game.
8. Minimal hours, maximum productivity.
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August 31, 2012 | 6:18pm EDT

Google insider gives startup-specific SEO tips

Maile Ohye is a sweet, bubbly woman who knows a ton about getting people to use your startup’s site, and she’s pretty darn generous with her knowledge. That she also just happens to be the tech lead for Google's Developer Programs, and that she’s taken the time to make the below video, puts her pretty high on our list of favorite people.

“If I were a consultant for your startup,” she  ...

How to tell if you are an entrepreneur

Have you ever wondered if you have what it takes to start a business? Do you have enough smarts, money, skills, and stamina? Are you crazy enough?

Books like Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck spend hundreds of pages trying to help readers figure it out. Minute MBA, an arm of OnlineMBA.com, examines the question in just about one minute.

The Minute MBA video "How To Tell If You're an Entrepreneur"  ...

How creatives can shine in entrepreneurship

I consider myself very lucky because I’m one of a few who found their passion in life at an early age. Ever since my first class in high school, I was hooked on photography. I knew instantly that the only thing I wanted to do with the rest of my life was hear the beautiful sound of a shutter release.

There was just one little problem: How could I support myself as a professional artist?

Whether  ...

Pandora's stock up after Q2 2012 results

Who knew making no money would make people so happy?

Pandora became a darling of the stock market this week due to unexpected results from its second-quarter earnings statement—the company actually broke even on a per-share basis. After closing at $10 per share at the end of trading Wednesday, the Internet radio’s stock opened Thursday at $11.84, a jump of nearly 20 percent. By 1:30 Thursday,  ...

Why ShopRunner looks to legacy retailers

Between Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) and the rising number of price-comparison tools, it gets harder for brick-and-mortar stores to ring up sales when online competitors can so frequently undercut them on price.

One startup that offers retailers a way to get some edge back is ShopRunner, a consortium of more than 60 retailers such as American Eagle Outfitters (NYSE: AEO), Blue Nile (Nasdaq: NILE), and  ...

Romney and Ryan have few convention words for entrepreneurs

With the 2012 Republican National Convention now one for the history books, it's time to take stock of what Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan had to say to the nation's entrepreneurs. The answer: not a whole lot.

Romney, the party's presidential nominee, mentioned "entrepreneurs" exactly once in his speech Thursday night. Ryan, his running mate, didn't say the word at all when he gave his address at the  ...