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The best ways for brands to branch out of their comfort zones
Venture Beat - 9 May 2015 05:00
Guest: Multiplying the ways consumers can interact with your brand in the wild is often easier said than done, however. It usually requires companies to branch outside of their comfort zones, much like a pizza chain divi...
What entrepreneurs can learn from Amazon's partnership with TaskRabbit
Venture Beat - 9 May 2015 22:00
Guest: For Amazon to hit the ground running, it needed a vast database of service providers and the certainty that customers would receive quality work from day one. Working with TaskRabbit meant Amazon didn't have to st...
Google+ has quietly turned off its shared circles feature
Venture Beat - 9 May 2015 22:10
Google+ has removed the shared circles button that has allowed users to share groups of users and helped people discover content on the social network. The feature lets you create and share groups, or circles, of users, ...
Facebook vs. YouTube: Who's winning the video marketing battle?
Venture Beat - 9 May 2015 20:00
Guest: Facebook may be the new place to be when it comes to video marketing, but that doesn't mean you should ditch YouTube.
Uber reportedly wants to raise $1.5-2B more on a huge $50B valuation
Venture Beat - 9 May 2015 19:02
Uber is said to be going back to investors in search of more money.
The Blasingame Translator for small businesses and banks
Forbes - 9 May 2015 18:54
Jim Blasingame, The Small Business Advocate, offers tips on how small business owners and banker can speak the same language.
Goodbye, SaaS -- hello, Containers-as-a-Service
Venture Beat - 9 May 2015 17:00
Guest: Although we are now living in a SaaS heaven with all of the benefits of software that is always available and up-to-date, we are also beginning to see the SaaS hell naysayers were warning us about.
The next generation of entrepreneurs will need more open platforms
Venture Beat - 9 May 2015 06:30
Opinion: If you're an entrepreneur, you don't want to build your app (or service, or product) on top of a platform that is too controlled by its owner.
Brooke Burke-Charvet: Celebrating Today's Modern Mom
Forbes - 9 May 2015 06:09
As a TV host, entrepreneur, fashion designer, fitness guru, CEO, philanthropist, model, and mother of four with a hectic work schedule, Brooke Burke-Charvet is truly a Modern Mom. Born and raised in Tucson, Arizona, she ...
Lending startup Affirm may be popular, but its loans are a problem
Venture Beat - 9 May 2015 01:00
Guest: Online payment platform Affirm has skyrocketed in popularity recently, drawing $275 million from venture capital investors. The company operates by allowing users to take out loans at check-out at select online s...
How to Take Your Company's Payment System into the Digital Age
Forbes - 9 May 2015 00:32
Business velocity is a factor that can help accelerate your business’ growth. Whether you receive payment for services and goods today, or the next month, can be a significance difference for your company’s operation...
Bubble talk: Zenefits is good, but it's not $4.5B good
Venture Beat - 9 May 2015 00:00
Guest: I'm a big fan of Zenefits and do expect to see it achieve great success - but my inner undergraduate economist finds it hard to reconcile an ARR of $20 million with a valuation of this magnitude.