Startup News

By Jonathan Wood and Michael Moran

People from all walks of life start businesses each year. Yet, all of these entrepreneurs have one thing in common - the courage to take the first step toward realizing a dream.

Scores of Swiss Banks Are Expected To Take IRS Disclosure Deal To Reveal American Depositors

If you look back over the last 15 years, the probability that an idea has not been tried before is almost none. It is because of this that one of the fundamental questions I ask about any concept I hear is "why now?"

Most businesses start small but only the special ones achieve great heights. Here are seven companies that began as tiny acorns but grew (or are growing quickly) into great oaks.

The most successful people I know are masterful at maximizing their time. They've learned that squandering productive time eats away at high-level success. Time management is for people who have modest goals. If you want...

Companies want to grow. At a corporate growth rate slightly higher than GDP, Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) are struggling. There are three primary levers to pull: growth in emerging markets, mergers and acquisitions and ...

It began like most good ideas, over a beer. ?My friend was redoing his house and he had all this exposed brick,? says Phil Bosua. ?He said, you?re the inventive type ? how do I put lights in without getting wires everywh...

One of Kickstarter?s most successful campaigns ever, LIFX raised $1.3 million in 3 days last year of an original target of $100,000.

What do doctors think about 23andme? This question was originally answered on Quora by Dr. Jae Won Joh.

Did you know you can fight back if your real estate tax bill is unfairly high?

A lot of people might think that the third week of November was a bad week for religion in the courts.  Judge Barbara Crabb ruled that Internal Revenue Code Section 107(2), which allows clergy to receive tax-free cash h...

Investment in the crowded food subscription space just keeps coming. The Center for Innovative Technology's (CIT) GAP Funds announced Monday that it has invested an undisclosed amount of money in Washington, DC-base...

The selective waiver doctrine may not be dead, but it is certainly struggling to survive. The Second Circuit may yet have to resolve the issue. In the meantime, company management and counsel should be careful not to cou...

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Digital marketing as a mega-trend is quickly revealing Early Adopters and Laggards. Where are you on that spectrum?

It?s fair to ask if the Internet finally caught up with certain technologies. Some things get a head start before they are more widely popular. Such is the case with GumGum -- a platform for in-image advertising that sta...

There is nothing more powerful than employees? passion and initiative to make customers happy to spark long-lasting word of mouth about your brand.

Gender differences do count in entrepreneurship but not in the way many people think. Women are better in some aspects than men, according to research.

Joyent is an interesting company. One of the few remaining independent cloud infrastructure vendors of scale, it has taken an interesting path - rather than adopting OpenStack or CloudStack, Joyent instead runs on its ow...

TiqIQ uses its unique data on the ticket selling market to produce interesting content for some of the top names in the industry.

Where will businesses most readily thrive in 2025? Here are the 16 fastest-rising cities for business competitiveness forecast for 12 years from now. In the States, Miami is the fastest grower, gaining 10 places in the s...