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She and three other principals bought Winoker Realty after its founder died in an accident; they renamed it Evo Real Estate Group.     

Few things are more important for a leader than the ability to formulate and implement strategy. Not only is it one of the primary roles of a great leader, it is also one of the critical areas of competence that inspires...

Much has been said about our 12+ year war in Afghanistan, but one sentence from a report released today sums up the fraud, waste, and the continuing folly of staying in the country any longer. "IOM paid $300,000 for 600 ...

A galaxy known as "z8_GND_5296" — the red blob in the box to the right — has just been confirmed as the oldest known galaxy we've seen, formed just 700 million years after the universe's birth. The galaxy seems to be...

Recruiting leaders for many companies can often be arduous, time consuming, costly and stressful. Despite this, it is critical to any firm's success as staffing leaders will either enable or prevent an organization from ...

What should be in a pitch deck? This question was originally answered on Quora.

Boutique investment bank Moelis & Co. is moving closer to an initial public offering, though no filing is imminent.

Miki Agrawal's book DO COOL SH*T encourages readers to identify their passions and take an entrepreneurial path, mixing personal stories with experience-based advice and work-book like questions. This article is both a r...

There's a new a new book out that documents the rise of Amazon and its founder Jeff Bezos, "The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon," written by journalist Brad Stone, a senior writer for Bloomberg Busine...

Australian bush fires have been plaguing New South Wales for the last few days, forcing many in the Blue Mountain area to evacuate and causing the sky in nearby Sydney to turn a rusty orange at times. Firefighters are no...

A couple of years ago legendary Venture Capitalist and technology entrepreneur Marc Andreesen famously opined that software is eating the world. Andreesen should know, as someone who sits on the boards of  Hewlett-Packa...

One evening in May, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer and her husband attended an expensive dinner. Other guests included billionaire Sean Parker, SV Angel's Ron Conway, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff, Twitter board member Peter ...

He played the ukelele, weighed in on the Obamacare debacle and even flashed his prehistoric flip cell phone. The billionaire investor gives his unique take on almost everything.

The proposed rules are extremely impractical because of the restrictions and procedural hurdles a crowdfunding issuer, investor and funding portal will have to endure to raise capital.

Successful people are great storytellers.  They have perfected the art of persuasion.  They can frame strong arguments and voice them clearly and succinctly.  These storytellers are often pros at sharing their Success...

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Its that time of the year again.   Your company is rolling out the annual employee survey so that management can measure the engagement levels across the entire organization.   Yet, with all the costs and efforts to ...

The search for money to capitalize a budding small business is no easy task. For some, it might require a second mortgage or maxing out a credit card or two, for others, it might mean a trip to the local bank for a small...

We like to think we're rapidly moving forward into a computer-enhanced world in which big data makes our decisions, robots do our work, and everyone lives an augmented reality. But this is false. Increasingly, our world ...

In January 2012 Guidewire Software (GWRE) came public at $13 and ended its first day up about 32%. But this would not be the end of the good times. Keep in mind that the stock price is now trading at $47.

In any pitch both you and the audience are communicating over two channels - verbal and nonverbal - resulting in two distinct conversations going on at the same time. Here are five tips to improve your nonverbal conversa...

Ralph Lauren and Dylan Lauren (Image courtesy of Zimbio.com) Last week I talked about the genetic aspects of entrepreneurial traits, along with the parts of entrepreneurship that every person can learn. In response to th...