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@giorodriguez Latino entrepreneurship is about many things.  But for me, it's mostly about the new narrative

According to a recently published article in the Wall Street Journal, stress is the number one workforce risk issue, ranking above obesity and physical inactivity.   What's more, there seems to be a disconnect between ...

Today's Cyber Monday sales are expected to reach $1.8 Billion. That is more than one fifth of the annual spending on eco-friendly lifestyle products - both online and in stores. When consumers buy green products, they ar...

Five lessons learned from interviewing and learning from people who are doing work they love. By Jessica Semaan (Founder, .thepassion.co) 

Drones! Amazon! The future is here!

Cyber Monday is upon us. Along with Black Friday and Small Business Saturday, it represents the third point in a constellation of holiday consumption, a four-day period during which unprecedented amounts of money are s...

Investors who have been chasing after the social networking stocks may have missed out an old technology giant, Hewlett-Packard. The company's stock has gained more than 90 percent in the last 12 months.

Everyone likes a deal, and avoiding taxes can seem like any other discount. And if it?s legal, why not? Many tax cases stand for the proposition that there is no duty?not even a patriotic one?to pay more taxes than requ...

From a safe distance, senior management looks easy. Up close, it's far more complicated and treacherous than the newly promoted person realizes.

Here's a nice antidote to all the Cyber Monday ads clogging your inbox today. Harvard Business School's Baker Library has a new exhibit that examines the advertising industry in the late 19th century.

On November 7th Plain Vanilla launched a Trivia App called QuizUp. The app was released a little over three weeks ago, already it has attracted 3 million registered users and has enjoyed the #1 spot in the Apple App Stor...

What do pies and marketing have in common? The Blue Bonnet Cafe in Marble Falls, Texas sold over 2,000 pies during the holiday by effectively using business innovation and the classic 4 P's of Marketing with a special tw...

One of the biggest challenges early-stage companies face is capturing large customers that accelerate commercialization. NorTech President and CEO Rebecca Bagley offers advice on how to target anchor companies and turn t...

Though popping bottles and brandishing Bugattis may not be thoughtful investments, beyond sonic displays of reckless spending hip-hop can be a surprising source of sound financial advice.

Which company will be worth more in the end: Dropbox or Box? This question was originally answered on Quora by Alexandre Scialom.

Companies typically rebrand themselves for two distinct reasons. Those which are floundering do so in a desperate attempt to stave off failure. Such efforts are seldom successful, as rebranding typically does not address...

At this time every year I like to remind small business owners to do what grandma used to do after a long winter. She called it ?spring cleaning.? So let?s do the same thing, but let?s do it now, in December.

People love success stories, but freak out at the prospect of failure. If you want success in any aspect of your life, then you have to embrace failure and build on the benefits it generates.

A few weeks ago Dropbox, the file sharing service that is taking the world by storm, held a press event in which it revealed its latest product developments in its attempt to build a product that gains widespread and san...

Cyber Monday To Break Records, Wreck State Coffers.

The barely heard-of, twice-yearly Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions, once upon a time, helped give researchers a sense of what the heck is going on with Washington bureaucracies' regulations.

Several months ago, tongue in cheek, I made the case that design no longer matters--that in today's world, the words and content of today's online sites mean more for supporting SEO and overall online business strength.