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Last week, I wrote a little primer on content companies–what kinds are out there and how they’re making money. This week two media companies are announcing some big fundraising rounds. Vox Media, based in Washington ...

It turns out that, on Twitter, growing your following is just good old behavioral science.

The cut-off line for this year?s China Rich List 400 was $600 million, up $130 million from a year ago. Among those that missed the chance for a comeback was Ji Qi, chairman of Nasdaq-listed China Lodging Group, an opera...

Everyone knows how to be healthy:  Eat Right, Exercise, and maintain positive mental health (sleep, stress, etc.).  Very few people know the three keys to financial success, but they are equally as simple, and, after y...

NBC Sports launched their new $250 million English Premier League venture recently. And very impressive it is too, I thought.

After a very slow start, there is momentum at the SEC to enable crowdfunding at the national level. Title II of the JOBS Act, which permits General Solicitation to accredited investors, became law in September. It is exp...

Congress has just shuttered much of the federal government for more than two weeks and risked a market-shattering federal default, and the sum total progress that's come out of it is to schedule a meeting of budget negot...

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it" -Victor Hugo

This is the second post in our series sharing Ashoka?s key insights on leading trends in social entrepreneurship and the environment coming out of Europe.  Click here to read the first post in the series. 

Debt is, by definition, something -- typically money -- that is owed to another party. Many people live with it, and some economies would not work without it. As the nation waited for Congress to make a deal and move the...

Anyone following the performance of J.C. Penney?s stock closely cannot help but be concerned about the continued slide?the stock is trading close to $7-mark, near its all-time low.

What are some of the surprising downsides of having your startup succeed? This question was originally answered on Quora.

Minority entrepreneurs made up just 8.5% of the people pitching their businesses to angel investors in the first half of 2013, according to a report on the angel market by the University of New Hampshire?s Center for Ven...

Veeva Systems is at the heart of two explosive megatrends: the cloud and life sciences. So it should be no surprise that the company had little trouble with its IPO. In today?s trading, the shares are up a sizzling 80%.

Soraya Darabi?s post-Foodspotting venture, Zady, aims to captivate consumers with a combination of stylish products, well-reported stories and transparent supply chains.

In a presentation at Hubspot?s Inbound 2013 conference, Randy Milanovic gave a great presentation about his new book Findability. In it, he said:

Brian Coryat, Founder and CEO of Local Market Launch and former Founder and CEO of ValueClick (NASDAQ: VCLK), recently winged his talk at UC Santa Barbara's Distinguished Lecture Series. Despite his ad hoc approach, his ...

As a professional keynote speaker, I know that the obvious part of my job is, well, obvious: I get up on a stage, freshly showered and dressed?me, not the stage?and kick off an event by speaking. What happens onstage dur...

What can you do to make your business attractive to angel funders? Two women who did it tell you how.

Every so often, you come across a person that inspires you, brings out the best in you, and blows you away with their range of talent, impact, and intellect. Since 2007, that is what Leslie Sanchez has been to me and I a...

New Mexico is hosting not one, not two, but three Startup Weekends on November 15th including one in Albuquerque just for teenagers find out more here.

The American Dream has many components, but the big three are: liberty, business ownership, and home ownership.