Startup News

Let’s get the obvious out of the way: Kickstarter has given the public an early crack at some spectacular stuff. It’s given us an entire galaxy of gadgets and allowed fan enthusiasm to revive Veronica Mars and Myster...

FEATURE: Here are some of the biggest news stories to come out of the video game industry in 2015.

GUEST: In a rapidly changing world, those who copy the past have doomed their future. When companies or agencies search for disruptive and innovative strategies they often assemble a panel of experts to advise them. Iron...

GUEST: Lately there is a lot of buzz in Silicon Valley about social impact investing. Startup executives and venture capitalists with an earnest gleam in their eyes increasingly talk about using hi-tech to make the world...

GUEST: Unicorns, it turns out, were never driving economic evolution in the first place. The simple fact remains that every business in the world thrives or dies based on one simple premise: The money has to come from so...

GUEST: We are five years into the greatest transformation of the U.S. healthcare system in the half century since Medicare was enacted. Since 2009, over 500 healthcare IT (HCIT) startups have been founded, supported by $...

'Tis the season to be ugly? This sweater company thinks so.

The taxpayer, a former major league baseball player, hired a company and its owner in 2004 to manage his financial affairs; the taxpayer deposited all of his income in two bank accounts which the company’s owner was a ...

Slovenia doesn’t often hit the mainstream startup radar, but one company from the small south-central European nation has built up a user base of 2.5 million people since its inception in 2010. Available on the Web, An...

The Content Marketing Institute created an impressive infographic detailing the history of content marketing starting in 4200 B.C., when one of the first signs of "custom publishing" was found in cave paintings. The Cont...

Last month Great Britain won the Davis Cup – the most prestigious team prize in tennis – for the first time in 79 years. Andy Murray, arguably Britain’s greatest ever player won all 8 of his “live” singles rubb...

One of the biggest parts of a marketing plan in this day and age is relevant content, and the days of traditional advertising are steadily running shorter. In this particular context what I mean by relevant content is c...

Although entrepreneurship can be lonely, finding peer groups and other entrepreneurs to talk with can help ease the pressures and burdens of growing a company.

One of the hardest jobs in an entrepreneurial company is being the person who has to say no. The people in legal or other compliance roles have the unenviable role of putting on the brakes when everyone else in the compa...

My kids and I recently spent a holiday week at an all-inclusive Punta Cana resort and I didn’t spot any other single parents. All around us, families relaxed in the sun. They splashed in the waves. And they stuffed the...

(Reuters) – NASA’S Hubble telescope captured an image of a baby star buried in interstellar gas and dust with massive jets emitting from it that seem to resemble a double-bladed lightsaber from the new film “Star W...

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders regained access to crucial voter files on Friday after taking the Democratic National Committee to court and accusing party leaders of trying to undermine his White H...

Gusto, the payroll and benefits service provider formerly known as ZenPayroll, has raised over $50 million for in what its chief executive calls an “opportunistic insider round”. The company also disclosed that it no...

Google today announced the availability of Google Play services version 8.4 for building Android apps. With this new package, Android developers can now incorporate actual app content into custom email messages for App I...

It's easy for senior management to blame front line folks for poor customer service. But here's where it starts.

Nike announced last week that it had signed LeBron James to a “lifetime” contact.  Speculation is that the deal will be worth more than $500 million, with some estimates making it a $1 billion contract.  This blog ...

Back in September 2014, Google outlined its plans to drop support for the SHA-1 cryptographic hash algorithm in Chrome. The schedule has moved around a bit since, and now the company is committing to ditching the outdate...