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Did you know that for every $100 spent at a local business, $68 stays within your local economy whereas only $43 stays within your community when you spend money at a national store. This data, shared by Independent We ...

Cloud computing has completely changed the tech industry, but it's got a dark side for the companies competing in the market, something those in the industry call "the race to zero."

Guest Post: It's been the narrative of technology since the wheel was invented. Something is new, exciting … and expensive. Then we find a way to mass produce it (or something similar). Processes get better, and equipm...

Guest Post: This holiday season, brace for the first test of a new paradigm in social marketing --- one that values sales over status updates and commerce over engagement.

And now, back to your regularly scheduled flood of holiday-shopping commercials. With the elections over and fewer than 20 days until Black Friday, U.S. consumers are bound to be bombarded with holiday ads from retailers...

Guest Post: A few weeks ago during a moment of self-reflection, I noticed a recurring theme throughout the top deals in our pipeline and became suddenly aware of my tendency to value startups with well-formed user experi...

Debbie McNulty's 16-year-old daughter used to have a common complaint as the youngest child.

This is Part 5 of our mini-blog series and I focus on entrepreneurship and the practice of experimentation. My colleague Heidi Neck launched this series by pointing out that entrepreneurship is about “acting and doing,...

Guest Post: 20 years later, the banner ad's time may be up.

Guest Post: Standalone file sync and share is dying, and I’m not the only one who sees its imminent demise. When Gartner unveiled its Magic Quadrant for the enterprise file synchronization and sharing (EFSS) market, th...

Imagine what it would be like to run your business like a divided government. Approximately half the company would fervently execute your plans, even when they obviously made no sense. The other half would obstruct your...

Xplenty, a startup that sells an easy-to-use cloud-based version of the Hadoop open-source big data software, has brought its service to the burgeoning Google Cloud Platform. Xplenty charges as little as $99 per month fo...

Google premiered the Material design theme at its big Google I/O conference back in June, but only recently have developers been sending out apps in accord with the new look for the Android operating system. And it isn�...