Grasshopper.com is next in our Doing Sales Right series. Grasshopper is a virtual phone system for small business owners and entrepreneurs.
Their online prowess is fairly well known in the blogosphere. They did a major rebrand by shipping 5,000 chocolate covered grasshoppers (truly edible)…
Guest Post – Jonathan Kay is the Ambassador of Buzz at Grasshopper, a provider of virtual phone systems. He is extremely passionate about helping / meeting new entrepreneurs and always excited to learn about their unique journey. Find Jonathan on Twitter @GrasshopperBuzz or via email…
Siamak Taghaddos is one of the youngest CEOs to be named to Inc.’s List of 500 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America. He’s been Featured on CNN as part of the series “Young People Who Rock”, Businessweek as One of “Top 5 Entrepreneurs Under 25”, American…
David Hauser co-founded Grasshopper.com with Siamak Taghaddos in 2003. David is the Chief Technology Officer at Grasshopper.com amongst many other responsibilities such as managing operations and corporate culture. He started Grasshopper.com while a senior at Babson College where he received his BS in Business. David…
30 years ago if you knew everything there was to know about a computer, you were a geek or a nerd. Computer geeks Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Jeff Bezos, and Steve Jobs changed the world. They gave us a computer on every desktop, shopping at…
This morning’s roundup of the latest venture capital news and analysis across the Web:
Today The Wall Street Journal and VentureSource unveiled a list of the top 50 venture-backed companies in the U.S. with the greatest potential. Undeniably a list of this sort is bound…
Let’s hear it for the new dorks. It wasn’t too long ago that being a dork meant you weren’t cool. Oh how times have changed. A new generation of geeky entrepreneurs are setting the standards for business and the world we live in—they are the…
Remember the Pantless Knights of “I’m on a Mac” fame? Well, they’re back today with a new vid titled “The New Dork,” a parody of Jay-Z and Alicia Keys’s “Empire State of Mind” that pays tribute to social media adherents and hipsters alike.
With shoutouts…
The music video below is pure viral marketing, but we’ll bite ’cause it’s got a catchy tune. ”Entrepreneur State of Mind” is a remake of Jay-Z and Alicia Keys’ “Empire State of Mind”, but with references to Facebook, YouTube, and (ahem) TechCrunch. Instead…
Sorry, there are no ninjas in this video. But there is a fun meme based on the Jay-Z joint feat. Alicia Keys, “Empire State of Mind”, and it is called “The New Dork: Entrepreneur State of Mind.”
Notice the hipster references, the calls to action,…
This post is part of our series where we talk to real companies (and other organizations) around the world to find out how they’re leveraging social media, how it has impacted their business, and what lessons they’ve learned. Today we’re talking with Jonathan Kay at…
I met and connected with a great, BIG person today — entrepreneur Ileana Kane — who turned us on to this video. Turn on your computer’s audio, turn up the volume, and check it out. Wondering what it means to be BIG? Looking for inspiration…
Grasshopper is a company dedicated to helping entrepreneurs get started and succeed. Their flagship product is a phone system designed for entrepreneurs.
To help inspire people to start a business and live their dreams last year they created a video, “Entrepreneurs Can Change…
What if I told you the video you just watched above enabled Youth Venture to get a $20,000 donation? That’s right the video created by Grasshopper to inspire and encourage entrepreneurs to make their ideas a reality, went viral and to date has generated…
One thing we always recommend during a web development project is that the client consider obtaining a toll free number.
Having a toll free number on your website while offering credibility, also offers the opportunity to not publish to the world your home or…
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