Startup News

This article is by Hazel Barkworth, Cultural Insights Project Director, Added Value.

How time flies. Today is the 10-year anniversary of Facebook. What started as just one of many web projects for Mark Zuckerberg – while coding away in his Harvard dorm -- has turned into something that has changed the ...

Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Wednesday's session are Time Warner, Twitter, and Walt Disney.

Meet this year's 30 Under 30: Africa's best and brightest entrepreneurs- the 30 youngsters transforming the continent, re-telling Africa's stories and writing the future

From a spate of wearables startups to Google's recent $3 billion acquisition of thermostat and smoke alarm maker Nest, Silicon Valley has rediscovered the virtues of actually making stuff.

I was chatting the other day with a fellow budget wonk who noted the cruel paradox of fiscal politics: When the economy is bad, deficits rise and the public support for reducing them grows. Yet a poor economy is the wor...

Microsoft has just announced Satya Nadella as their new CEO. I'm glad to see them pick an internal candidate, and one that truly understands their business. It's fitting he's been heading up their cloud division, and be...

When we’re stuck on a hard problem, we go seek out a superior. It seems like common sense. It’s something that is imbued into us from childhood and into adulthood. When you can’t solve that math problem, you ask yo...

As previously revealed in this space, the Age of the Seller is succumbing to what I’ve named The Age of the Customer®. In this new Age, control of the relationship between Seller and Customer has shifted to the latter...

New research suggests that top performers often feel hidden abuse.  If you're trying to attract or retain great people, whether in a start-up or established business, this is troubling.

The really compelling news is that a service aimed at investors in one of the few undigitized sectors of the U.S. economy--commercial real estate--now has a Bitcoin payment option.

In January, 2014, I took part in a debate with Ben Sheffner (VP of MPAA) at the Copyright Society in New York City. We were discussing Copyright and the Changing Political environment in Washington, DC.

In February of 2010 Derek Andersen and a friend hosted the first Startup Grind in Andersen’s office in Mountain View, California. Nine people showed up. Since then, Startup Grind has grown to over 75 chapters around th...

One study has suggested that as many as 90% of American small businesses are on social media today. Social media has taken hold in the business world: it’s one of the easiest ways to reach new customers, and one of the...

After waiting for your business school admissions decisions for months, it may feel like a cruel joke to learn that the big decision is: more waiting.

What is the mission of TOMS? This question was originally answered on Quora by Blake Mycoskie.

Once a business has launched and felt some traction, the next stage most founding entrepreneurs are faced with is growth. But how is it done and is there a science to scaling? According to Stanford professors Robert I. S...

Just because your startup operates offline doesn't mean you can't apply software company principles to grow.

Applicability of Portability Rules to Nonresidents Who Are Not Citizens.

Forbes: Law firm client service consultant, author, and speaker Micah Solomon offers a client service initiative framework for the legal industry in five steps you can start today.

Given the drama of the IRS "targeting scandal," you would think that when the Service went from annoying document requests to issuing actual adverse rulings, there would be some howling, but the two adverse rulings on 50...

The very first time I saw real innovation in healthcare IT was in 2003 in Chicago, when Linda Hall presented QuickMedix (later named MinuteClinic). What really impressed me was the simplicity of the premise, based on the...