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James Proud took his business from Kickstarter to Amazon in a year, now he's sharing what he learned along the way.

How often do you visit your local bank branch? The average American did it 1.7 times a month in 2011 and this fell to 1.0 times a month in 2014. Conventional visits to the bank are becoming a thing of the past, according...

Ohio citizens vote on legalizing marijuana.

Tesla announced Q3 losses of $0.58 per share on revenue of $1.24 billion. Analysts expected losses of $0.50 a share and revenue of $1.26 billion. This is Tesla’s sixth quarter of successive losses. The losses this quar...

Social gaming company Zynga reported third quarter earnings and bookings today that beat Wall Street’s estimates, but it also delayed two major games — CSR2 and Dawn of Titans — until 2016. The good news: The San F...

Twilio has rolled out a new set of features designed to help developers build messaging apps using its platform. The telephony-based company has moved its Copilot offering out of beta and made it available to all of its ...

If you’re in sales, there’s a good chance you spend a large portion of your time prospecting. And while your marketing team, an explosion of social networks, and the arrival of various cloud-based contact databases (...

Uber's plan would let drivers register for a bank account or prepaid card at the start of their employment, Quartz reports.

Apple today updated its iOS adoption numbers to show that iOS 9 has finally hit the 66 percent mark. In other words, the latest version of the company’s mobile operating system is now on two-thirds of its devices. iOS ...

In honor of Seattle Startup Week, we talked about innovation and entrepreneurialism with our Head of Digital at Chase, Gavin Michael, and Scott Armstrong, who is the CEO of Seattle's own Brenthaven. As part of our deep c...

Some of the world’s leading CMOs, including Jeff Jones, Target; Kristin Lemkau, JPMorgan Chase; Ralph Santana, Harman; Seth Farbman, Spotify; Morgan Flatley, Gatorade; John Kennedy, Xerox; Tim Mahoney, GM; and many ot...

VB WEBINAR: Join us for this live webinar on Thursday, November 5th at 10 a.m. Pacific, 1 p.m. Eastern. Register here for free. When GameStop first launched its mobile app, it underestimated just how passionate its users...

Cybersecurity startups that are both completely bootstrapped and profitable are quite rare: although perhaps not as rare as fraternal twins who become business partners.

Team communication software startup Slack today announced updates to its application programming interface that will make it easier for users to do more with Slack’s slash commands, which are shortcuts that can be trig...

There are many benefits of SEO aside from increased traffic. This post outlines 10 other important benefits that stem from having a properly SEO-optimized website.

Activision is rocking the gaming world today with the news that it’s in the works to buy Candy Crush Saga publisher King for $5.9 billion, but the company also had a monster third quarter. The Call of Duty publisher re...

As CEO, are you giving someone else responsibility, but then constantly trying to control how they do the job?

REVIEW: The 4th generation Apple TV, with its app-based interface and an all-new touch-sensitive and voice-activated remote control takes a surprising number of pages out of Roku's playbook. The question is, does it impr...

Although impostor syndrome isn't a diagnosable condition, it's a real problem for many high achievers. People who don't feel worthy of their success may never reach their greatest potential.

Concerns over mass extinction led to a worldwide Doomsday Vault initiative to protect agricultural crops in case of calamity.

The Gi FlyBike provides a transportation alternative for city dwellers that has the potential to disrupt the global electric bike industry. Watch this Roadmap Video to learn more about the founders' visions for the futur...

KENA BETANCUR/AFP/Getty Images For the third time in as many months, the fast growing and hugely popular Chipotle chain suffered yet another food safety setback, as reported by NPR and numerous other media outlets. Thi...