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Do You Want To Be A Millionaire?
Forbes - 15 Sep 2014 01:25
What separates self-made millionaires (including the super-rich) from those less financially successful? In a great many cases, the answer is Millionaire Intelligence.
Healthcare providers doing a sickly job of providing access to personal health records
Venture Beat - 15 Sep 2014 23:37Looking For Investors? Be Picky -- Even Though It's Counterintuitive
Forbes - 15 Sep 2014 23:11
There's an age-old interview question that's practically standard for most sales jobs. It goes a little something like this:
Nexon CEO Owen Mahoney: Fun should matter above all else in the free-to-play market
Venture Beat - 15 Sep 2014 22:48
Nexon's partnerships succeed on great gameplay, not necessarily on cultural harmony.
Google recognizes that its plan for gaming domination hinges on how people pay
Venture Beat - 15 Sep 2014 21:44
Google doesn't have years of credit card information like iTunes, so it's investing in new ways to pay.
Build vs. Buy: How to Know When You Should Build Custom Software Over Canned Solutions
Forbes - 15 Sep 2014 21:37
As a CEO, balancing your company’s immediate needs with its long-term growth is both paramount and challenging – especially if your business is a startup. Challenging questions arise, such as whether you should inves...
Apple chief Tim Cook blasts TV, says it's stuck in the 70s
Venture Beat - 15 Sep 2014 21:33
Apple chief Tim Cook blasts the current state of TV and talks, briefly, about Apple TV.
Lionsgate exec: 'We're looking at our games business as the third leg of the stool'
Venture Beat - 15 Sep 2014 21:20
By building on the success of titles based on its franchises, like The Hunger Games, Lionsgate intends to go much deeper into the game business.
'The Bitter Southerner' Might Be The 'Vice' of the South
Forbes - 15 Sep 2014 21:13
"The Bitter Southerner" might have the secret sauce where quality storytelling can make money. Folks from Lucinda Williams to Jack Black to Michelle Norris are fans.
Google says government data requests up 150%, but don't read too much into the numbers
Venture Beat - 15 Sep 2014 20:49
Google's transparency reports are more of an attempt to bring attention to government surveillance than to expose new revelations about surveillance.
Student Debt And The Millennial Entrepreneurship Paradox
Forbes - 15 Sep 2014 20:48
Thus emerges the millennial entrepreneurship paradox - is this the generation whose entrepreneurship propensities will unleash the next wave of economic growth, or will this generation's entrepreneurship potential fizzle...
Michael Pachter: Microsoft is preparing for life after the Xbox
Venture Beat - 15 Sep 2014 20:45
Michael Pachter doesn't see why we need consoles anymore.
Unity CEO hopes Clash of Clans 'drops like a fly'
Venture Beat - 15 Sep 2014 20:15
Unity's David Helgason explains his disappointment that the same companies continue to dominate mobile.
Terminate The Terminator: Hack Your Emotional Intelligence And Control Your Future
Forbes - 15 Sep 2014 19:21
If robots can be encoded with artificial, emotional intelligence and it is greater than what you and your team have to offer to guests, you will be out of work. And emotional intelligence in robots is closer than you'd t...
Cloudyn raises $4M to help big companies get their cloud costs in check
Venture Beat - 15 Sep 2014 19:20
Cloudyn, a startup with web-based software that tracks how much money companies spend on public clouds and suggests ways to optimize cloud usage, has taken on its first venture round, totaling $4 million. The funding, wh...
Drawn To The Stage
Forbes - 15 Sep 2014 19:06
At the edge of what we know is the thing that frightens us. Between what I know and what you know is a universe. It’s when we come to the edge of things and then go a little further that we begin to see possibilities w...
EA CEO Andrew Wilson explains how EA Access feeds our need to 'steal'
Venture Beat - 15 Sep 2014 19:00
Andrew Wilson understands your deep need to steal, and he wants to create products that play to that.
Four Millionaires Who Failed Miserably -- At First
Forbes - 15 Sep 2014 18:57
Sometimes you have to lose it all to really learn the tough lessons. There are some millionaires and billionaires who’ve been on a financial rollercoaster, but take what they learned during the hard times to come back ...
What Marketing Can Do For Hospitals
Forbes - 15 Sep 2014 18:45
This article is by Punam Anand Keller, the Charles Henry Jones Third Century Professor of Management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.
Sidecar raises $15.8M to compete with Uber and Lyft -- and it could raise $2M more
Venture Beat - 15 Sep 2014 18:41
On-demand car service Sidecar today announced a new $15.8 million funding round led by Avalon Ventures. Union Square Ventures and Virgin founder Richard Branson also participated in the round. The new funding follows the...
Let's Celebrate Global Tourism's Contributions on September 27 - World Tourism Day
Forbes - 15 Sep 2014 18:41
Later this month, on September 27, people around the world will mark World Tourism Day as they have every year since 1980. That’s the day the United Nations designated as the one on which we recognize the positive co...
Why the saturated and fragmented messaging market is ripe for disruption
Venture Beat - 15 Sep 2014 18:37
Guest Post: We all know that messaging apps are the new photo-sharing apps, which were the new social networking apps, which were the new … In other words, everyone is making one and very few are succeeding. Why is tha...