News source: Wired


TechCrunch’s Disrupt conference this year might have been most notable for the forced departure of Michael Arrington from the blog he founded, but the conference remained a platform for arrivals of new companies, eager for venture capital, new users and eventually riches.

It’s always professionally treacherous to predict which startups will take off, but here’s our favorites from the conference. Take it more as a suggestion of some things to try out, not as a cheat sheet for eager angel investors.

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The benefit for stores? A Google Analytics-like dashboard giving insights on when a store is busy and how much foot traffic it has . For us schmoes, we’ll be able to see if there’s a free table at the corner cafe via streaming, but anonymized, video that could be put on sites like Yelp. It may not be clear exactly how Prism will get big, but they’ve got real technology and a solid team of entrepreneurs.

Web design is important. a poorly designed website can make your business look bad, regardless of how stellar your products and services are. So, here's a few pointers as to what makes a website a good website.

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Every website should consist of more than one page. It shows to your customers that you're more than just a "one-dimensional" company. It also give you a way of spreading out your information, rather than having it cluttered into one hard to read page.

Here are the 5 basic pages your website should have.

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Your business card says it all. This is one place you want to take your time, and you don't want to skimp. When you hand your business card to someone, they're going to immediately judge you and your business by what they see.

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Yep. We're back. And bigger and better than ever.

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