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How to build a customer experience when your customers are the experts (as they often are now, thanks to mobile, Google, and soon Google Glass): How to approach customer service and designing a customer experience when y...

Entrepreneurship and civic innovation are exploding all over the world! Nowhere is it more vibrant than at Silicon Valley headquarters in Palo Alto, California. Saturday night marked the grand finale of Palo Alto’s App...

Banks and credit unions are prepared to support U.S. business expansion, according to a new survey from Sageworks, a financial information company. And that’s good news, in light of recent data from the Ewing Marion Ka...

Smart people continually make these 8 dumb mistakes that kill their careers. If you want to keep progressing, look at yourself closely in the mirror against these.

We talked last week about the need for HR and leaders to be on the look-out for employee potential – a real-time alignment between the business’s needs, new employees in the onboarding and hiring process, and existin...

There is growing evidence that the long-term health of a company?s bottom line and the health of its employees are, in fact, very much aligned. Yet only 35% of large and mid-sized U.S. companies provide stress-reduction ...

Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Monday's session are Allergan, Conn's, and Krispy Kreme.

Healthcare is such a bloated and bureaucratic industry that, at first glance, it might seem immune to disruption by innovators. But a new crop of tech entrepreneurs is trying to change that. Their products range from app...

Three reasons why iBeacon will massively propel Apple into the mobile ad space.

How can you leverage mobile to increase profitability for your company? Find out at MobileBeat, VentureBeat's 7th annual event on the future of mobile, on July 8-9 in San Francisco. Register now and save $400! Hewlett-Pa...

A portfolio is a great selling tool, and as such, it's important to put your best products on display.

If you didn’t know how to make popcorn on a stove, what would you do? You’d probably look it up online, but when you plug “how to make stovetop popcorn” into Google, you get about 415,000 results. Some results pr...

We’ve had an Oscar-winning film starring tech (The Social Network); a hilarious sitcom about the tech industry (Silicon Valley); and now we have the Mad Men for tech. Or at least, a show that desperately wants ...

I’ve read A LOT of blog posts. Much of my workday is spent reading, writing and publishing articles. And over the years, I’ve figured out a few things that seem to separate the good from the bad; and perhaps even mor...

Guest Post: If you have read anything about online advertising in the past year, you may be afraid that the industry is about to collapse under the weight of fraud.

It's a well known fact that people on diets tend to be pretty hungry. What's less commonly admitted is that the industry set up to help them stick to their attrition regime is pretty hungry too.

How can you leverage mobile to increase profitability for your company? Find out at MobileBeat, VentureBeat's 7th annual event on the future of mobile, on July 8-9 in San Francisco. Register now and save $400! Every time...

We are all involved in different interests, careers, and aspirations. Keeping informed is an important part of evolving your perspective, but also staying up-to-date. How I’m Informed is a look into the reading and l...

Guest Post: How can you leverage mobile to increase profitability for your company? Find out at MobileBeat, VentureBeat's 7th annual event on the future of mobile, on July 8-9 in San Francisco. Register now and save $400...

Hundreds of successful professionals have generously shared their dreams, accomplishments and disappointments with me over the years, thanks to my work writing about careers and entrepreneurship. These aren't necessarily...

Guest Post: If you're an engineering hiring manager, chances are you have a list of technical questions that are your gold standard for evaluating potential hires, right? Technical ability is imperative, of course. But a...