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How Does Your Pay Stack Up?
Forbes - 22 Feb 2015 15:08
Great employers know they need to pay competitive wages to attract the best employees. A cool culture isn’t a currency that pays the landlord or the grocery store. But if you’re making the transition from being a one...
How Europe is producing 'super startups'
Venture Beat - 22 Feb 2015 16:00
Guest:With increased talent, funding, and government support, Europe's tech entrepreneurs are no longer second best.
21 questions to answer before you start that mobile app
Venture Beat - 22 Feb 2015 22:00
Guest:You have an idea for a mobile app that will help extend your business and reach out to new and existing customers. Great! But before you send a development team to work on it, make sure you've asked yourself these�...
The World's 50 Most Innovative Companies -- Three Chinese Upstarts Beat Samsung
Forbes - 22 Feb 2015 23:40
Fast Company's 2015 list of World's 50 Innovative companies had a few surprises for global market observers. The first surprise is that Warby Parker topped the list, beating Apple--Apple has been on and off the top o...
Social may be the tipping point in the m-commerce revolution
Venture Beat - 22 Feb 2015 23:28
VB Event:With 64 percent mobile time spent on mobile social platforms like Facebook and Twitter, social stands to increase the rate of m-commerce conversion.
17 Tips on How to Attract Millions and Make a Massive Impact
Forbes - 22 Feb 2015 22:42
GENERATE MASSIVE RESULTS It is hard work to generate massive results in the for profit world. It is double hard in the non-for profit world. Here are 17 tips to help you create a platform so compelling that it attracts m...
Why the hackers at Synack need $25M to hunt down major security flaws
Venture Beat - 22 Feb 2015 21:00
We sat down with the founder of security firm Synack, Jay Kaplan, to talk about his company, the security space, and what it will take to get businesses to prioritize security infrastructure.
To Be An Inclusive Business, Forget Business School Lessons on Strategy
Forbes - 22 Feb 2015 20:34
In the coming decades, the majority of the world's economic output and market growth will come from the emerging markets. Already, the seven largest emerging markets collectively contribute more to global output than do ...
Asian Startups Claim 11% Of Billion Dollar Club
Forbes - 22 Feb 2015 19:56
Asian startups claim 11% of the 73 venture backed-companies valued at $1 billion.
Rising Teen Journalist Takes Security Lesson From John McAfee
Nibletz - 22 Feb 2015 16:27
Not even in college yet, Cleveland based Andrew Demeter has been making a name for himself. In 2014 his documentary We The People Genetically Modified won first place in C-SPAN’s StudentCam competition. It was on that ...
High Value But Little Glory: Innovating The Unmentionable
Forbes - 22 Feb 2015 16:17
We have inadequate appreciation for the caregivers and entrepreneurs who recognize and devote their lives to addressing the often profound health needs that few others - not doctors, not regulators, not the patients them...
LuminAID Becomes Latest Chicago Startup To Win Mark Cuban's Investment
Nibletz - 22 Feb 2015 15:43
Women Led Chicago Startup LuminAID gets investment from Mark Cuban. Mark Cuban’s startup portfolio continues to grow. Most of the startup world knows that in addition to the investments the world sees on Shark Tank Cub...
The Cities With The Highest Income When Adjusted For Cost Of Living
Forbes - 22 Feb 2015 15:08
In Los Angeles or New York, you may be able to earn a high salary, but high costs will eat your paycheck up. These are the cities with the best balance between wages and cost of living.
The Backed Pack: A charging backpack, a body sensor bracelet, & a virtual reality headset
Venture Beat - 22 Feb 2015 07:00
Obsessed with mobile growth? Join us February 23-24 when we reveal the best technologies and strategies to help your company grow on mobile. It all takes place at our 5th annual Mobile Summit at the scenic Cavallo Point ...
This week on VentureBeat: Exploding Kittens, Pinterest, & AWS for 1/10th of the regular price
Venture Beat - 22 Feb 2015 05:00
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Space tourism startup World View's parafoil flies to record altitude of 102,000 feet
Venture Beat - 22 Feb 2015 03:00
The flight was an essential step towards the company being ready to take paying passengers to the edge of space.
Champagne Tastes: Leading the Krug Family Business
Forbes - 22 Feb 2015 02:14
Although luxury conglomerate LVMH has owned Krug champagne since 1999, Olivier Krug, the sixth generation of the founding family, is still very much in evidence as “Director de la Maison,” or “House Manager.” Mos...
What's that thing? Whatever it is, it needs security
Venture Beat - 22 Feb 2015 02:00
Guest:The year is 2030 and I'm at the supermarket shopping. An ad-drone has passed over my house and eavesdropped on my last interaction with my kitchen, and my phone starts bombarding me with ads. It has also hacked my ...
This VC firm relies on Hadoop to check for startup success
Venture Beat - 22 Feb 2015 01:00
Some venture capital firms love to invest in big data startups. But they don't always love to use big data technology themselves. Data Collective is different.
PlayKids app shows massive success among kids -- though parents can be tough guardians
Venture Beat - 22 Feb 2015 00:53
VB Event:Mobile apps can expand at lightening speed. But if your app is targeting kids, there's an extra step involved: Winning over the parent first.