Startup News

Every consultant has his or her shortcuts. For me, if I want to quickly size up a company's culture, customer-centricity, and organizational excellence, and I want to do it without taking a backstage tour or even lookin...

It is one thing for a family member to immerse oneself when living abroad. It is another when a family firm chooses to operate offshore. It need sto consider culture from two angles. First, how does local culture affect ...

Each week, our friends at Backerjack bring us updates on some of the most successful gadget crowdfunding campaigns. RocketSkates Acton RocketSkates are smart motorized skates that fit right over your shoes. Once they've ...

Buzz is a magical force, but it only gets you so far in business. What you need is staying power, a customer loyalty-building customer experience. Something that gives customers a desire to return.

Sway could be Microsoft's next new cloud software product.

Before you ever aspire to growing your startup, you should familiarize yourself with these proven strategies.

It's hardly the first class-action suit against Facebook. But this time more than 1 billion users outside the U.S. and Canada could get on board.

This post is authored by Ernestine Fu and Jeff Himmelman. 

Google has a unique campus in Silicon Valley and the world. It was made famous in the comedy film The Internship starring Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn. While it may seem familiar in tech circles, the wider world still do...

A new app for visually impaired passengers at San Francisco International Airport will revolutionize the way blind passengers navigate the country's 7th largest airport

The new law represents a major legal smackdown on the the wireless carrier's clingiest business practices.

NOTE: GrowthBeat -- VentureBeat's provocative new marketing-tech event -- is next week! We've gathered the best and brightest to explore the data, apps, and science of successful marketing. Get the full scoop here, and g...

A Series of Forbes Insights Profiles of Thought Leaders Changing the Buisness Landscape:  Kurt Abrahamson, CEO, ShareThis...

The essence of Warren Bennis' management philosophy was a distinctly human one. People mattered, damn it--and people in management had the privilege and duty to help the people under and around them to shine.

Not only has Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll emerged as a rock-star of sorts, one could argue that he's developing the Rock Star 101 course for long-term success that Seattle hero Kurt Cobain once wistfully wished ha...

Maybe Google+ is not the Facebook-like, all-encompassing social product Google needed, and maybe a separate Flickr-like photo-storage service is what it could be.

NOTE: GrowthBeat -- VentureBeat's provocative new marketing-tech event -- is next week! We've gathered the best and brightest to explore the data, apps, and science of successful marketing. Get the full scoop here, and g...

Rogers will run both Beats Music and iTunes Radio to create "cohesion" between the two teams, says the Wall Street Journal.