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It's never a sure thing when you start your own business but proper planning can improve the odds.

Entrepreneurs who experience success with their first startup are often amazed to realize that the risks and fears of doing it right the second time go up, rather than down. Encores are tough, especially in the high-risk...

Today Microsoft announced it is partnering with Chinese Internet giant Baidu. The deal will help Microsoft reach its goal of putting Windows 10 on 1 billion devices worldwide. Already Windows 10 is installed on roughly 1...

Sometimes when you win, you really lose, and sometimes when you lose, you really win, and sometimes when you win or lose, you actually tie, and sometimes when you tie, you actually win or lose.

There is an old leadership rule, which dates back to the days of great playwright Sophocles (496-406).

VB INSIGHT: Right time, right place, and right content has long been considered the silver bullet for digital marketers. But reality bites. The fact is, upwards of 97 percent of your web audience is anonymous. That means...

For marketers, it’s the best of times and the worst of times. On the one hand, the world has never been more complex and their audience more fragmented. On the other, there has never been more resources for creative st...

The Walking Dead is arguably among the most valued "TV brands" right now and it's surely the most valuable of all the deceased-related "TV brands" going right now. And it owes all its success all the grand-zombie of them...

The beauty box company Birchbox is turning five.

SAN FRANCISCO — Ron Johnson is looking to change the way technology and the retail market interacts with customers. On stage at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, he shared the company’s “secret sauce” for how En...

You have as much right to succeed as anybody else

Put away your credit card — Oculus Rift isn’t going on sale this week. Virtual reality developers from around the world have assembled in Hollywood for the second Oculus Connect conference, and Oculus VR — the Face...

China’s ecommerce giant Alibaba this week unveiled Pay Watch, a payments-focused smartwatch that it plans to crowdfund on its online shopping website Taobao (think eBay or Amazon) starting October 15. Prices will range...

Mobcrush is announcing today it has enabled livestreaming of gameplay on Android devices. The move shows that Mobcrush continues to push forward with its plan to enable livestreaming for the $30 billion mobile game marke...

University of Virginia Darden MBA graduate Summers Nelson is an endurance athlete and entrepreneur, which may make her the perfect person to start a company called RealFuel. With the help of UVA's i.Lab Incubator, Nelso...

PRESS RELEASE: Bluewing Midstream LLC ("Bluewing") has secured an initial equity commitment of $100 million from Energy Spectrum Partners VII, LP and members of the Bluewing Management Team. The company plans to use the ...

Everyone can be great at something; everyone is on a path to becoming great, and leaders facilitate, encourage and empower that greatness,

A sequel to last week's post, Bryan Stolle maps out how to effectively engage a head hunter to maximize the chance of finding and landing the perfect candidate.

Google is getting ready to unveil a couple of new Nexus phones next week, and a fuller picture of the new devices has emerged during the past few weeks via a series of leaked photographs. Both new Nexus phones are shaped...

Lucasfilm’s special-effects department is working on a new frontier of immersive entertainment, and you can get a taste of that on Facebook. This morning, the Star Wars account on Facebook launched the Star Wars: The F...

Following the release of Firefox 41 just yesterday, Mozilla today updated the beta version of its browser to version 42 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. This is a massive release, as Mozilla wants its users to test ...