If you are a business affected by Hurricane Irene, we’d love to provide you with a free three-month Grasshopper account to help you keep your business open and connected (for existing customers, we will credit your account for 3 months, maximum credit $150).

You can be set up in five minutes, have incoming calls forwarded to your cell phone or to other employees’ cell phones and create custom greetings letting your customers know what’s happening. You don’t even need to change phone numbers; you can port yours into Grasshopper.

Whether you are a new customer or existing customer, give us a call at 1-800-820-8210 and we will help you get set up.

If there’s one person who has revolutionized the concept of the low-cost technology startup — businesses that can go from concept to minimum viable product straight from their bedroom or garage — it’s Paul Graham.

Through YCombinator, the innovative investment fund designed to give entrepreneurs the mentoring they need to live the dream on a small budget, Graham has shown there is a clear path for entrepreneurship on the Web that doesn’t necessarily require millions of dollars.

You might not be able to read the minds of the people who visit your company’s website (don’t worry, there will be an app for that soon enough), but you can still come pretty damn close.

Web analytics lets you collect and analyze big ol’ heaps of data about how users interact with your website, see which features have increased user engagement and which ones need improvement.

Earlier this week Jonathan, our Ambassador of Buzz, was in Seattle to give the keynote speech at Startup Riot.  Jonathan shared our lessons learned from Grasshopper, Chargify and Spreadable.  For those of you who weren’t in attendance, we wanted to share his presentation with you.  Have a look!

Emails are an effective and easy way to communicate. Maybe they are too easy. As an entrepreneur or salesperson, you need to know when the best time is to make a call instead of sending an email.

Next time you’re considering the best way to communicate, consider these advantages of placing a call: