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It was about 5 years ago I first thought of moving to the US with my startup. For the whole of that time I've been hopeful there would be progress with immigration reform but precisely nothing has changed! Until today. ...

Updated at 6:06 p.m. Pacific to add startups to the list, thanks to some help from Draper himself. Silicon Valley venture-capital veteran Tim Draper has consistently been blunt about his bullishness on the Bitcoin crypto...

Anyone who has visited a J.C. Penney Company (NYSE:JCP) store recently will probably have noticed that the shop floor is well stocked with the right stuff-- Liz Claiborne, J. Ferrar, Stafford, and the like -- and sale si...

Great entrepreneurs and business magnates often show propensity for making profit early on in life: at age 13 Andrew Carnegie changed spools of thread in a cotton mill six days a week, Jack Welch delivered papers and wor...

Can the fact that the number of taxpayer delinquent accounts in the IRS inventory is around 11 million, a common estimate of the number of illegal aliens, be entirely coincidental?  Please, I realize it is like comparin...

Having great employees isn't a nice-to-do - it's essential. And it's largely in your control.

These days there are comparative metrics for everything, including the varying degrees of efficiency (or lack thereof) in tax regimes around the world. A new, unique report by the World Bank and PricewaterhouseCoopers ta...

As the economic recession of 2008 set domestic automakers scrambling to adjust to the financial repercussions of the mortgage crisis, the industry made bold moves to embrace online marketing. Pioneers in online advertisi...

Uber stepped into a front-page-headline public relations disaster this week, after one of its executives hinted at deploying opposition research to destroy the reputations of critical journalists. The scandal sparked an ...

Here's a list of today's tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. Assembly helps developers find collaborators and launch their product, picks up $2.9M Developers often h...

Earlier in the week, I heard a story about angels – angel investors, that is – that got me thinking about that lovely little moment at the conclusion of “It’s a Wonderful Life” when a bell on the Bailey’s Chr...

Once upon a time, a very influential person wrote a memo to everyone in her very large company:  No more working from home. Get in the office.

When you?re stressed, you are not a 100% effective employee. Stress increases distractibility and decreases creativity, which means your work will take longer to complete and may not be as high-quality as you?re capable ...

In his premier film appearance in the blaxploitation send-up “I’m Gonna Git You Sucka,” Chris Rock inadvertently addresses a key pricing challenge faced by most entrepreneurs.

Check out our entire week's worth of coverage on VentureBeat's channel for video games, GamesBeat.

This is the final entry in our mini-series on entrepreneurial practices drawn from our recent book, Teaching Entrepreneurship: A Practice Based Approach (with Heidi Neck and Candy Brush).Our goal was to use the blog seri...

Spotify’s integration with Uber is here. Starting today, Spotify subscribers can hail an Uber and stream songs via the car’s stereo within a single app. Spotify announced its Uber deal earlier this week, and now the ...

How do you create a habit-forming product? That question is more important than ever, says Nir Eyal, author of Hooked: How to Create Habit-Forming Products. As we’re bombarded with information and new products and apps...

You’re not going to make it as an entrepreneur. That’s what the math says, anyway.

It sounds like a hoax. It’s not. An article last week in USA Today confirmed that Pepsico is testing a new Dorito flavored of Mountain Dew. Ready for the name? It’s called “Dewitos.”

Being an entrepreneur -- especially a successful one -- is a gift not to be taken for granted. If you're an entrepreneur yourself, you can probably relate to many of these things that I'm grateful for as a small business...

In a significant move for the mobile advertising industry, Apple and retargeting leader AdRoll have announced a partnership that will see AdRoll providing its retargeting and programmatic buying capability for iAd. In ad...