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Technology holds no fears for later-life entrepreneurs

2016 has had a rocky start. After seven years of strong venture financing activity, startups may face tightening conditions as they try to raise capital and look for exits.

As the next article in my CMO Insight Series, I interviewed Antonio J. Lucio, the former CMO of VISA and the new CMO of HP, when Hewlett-Packard separates into two companies in November. What emerges from his interview i...

Startups, with their limited resources and experience, have key challenges during periods of high market turbulence. Sharing some insights from riding out our first such 'big wave'.

GUEST: Ever since Apple's Siri heralded the age of intelligent assistants (IAs) four years ago — followed by Microsoft, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook — pundits have complained that intelligent assistant technology ...

GUEST: So you have an exquisitely engineered product or an innovative service. Sorry, but that won't be enough to sustain growth in today's economy. From the customer's point of view, you're just getting started on meeti...

Baking with 'Buffy,' America's new boomtowns and the swarming political candidates slowing down small business.

The determination of central banks to fight deflation at any cost is bullish for gold.

I recently had a horrible encounter with a disengaged investor. Apparently, communication lines crossed, and this partner didn’t know his team invested in my company. He stormed into my office—a co-working space at t...

Social mobile gaming company Zynga made Wall Street investors cringe this week. It beat earnings expectations in its fourth fiscal quarter earnings report on Wednesday, but chief executive Mark Pincus offered cautious gu...

Entrepreneurs starting a small business this year are worried about a possible recession on the horizon. Every customer is vital to an entrepreneur during the early years and each sale could make the difference between y...

Lara Croft and video game writer Rhianna Pratchett share more than a few traits. The hero of the Tomb Raider series and the writer of video game stories are both strong women with “daddy issues,” Pratchett jokes. Her...

We've had two charitable easement cases in the last couple of weeks or so.  Mecox Partners LP was a about a facade easement in Greenwich Village.  Palmer Ranch Holdings is a conservation case.  I'm torn between which...

A Pakistani filmmaker hopes to put an end to the practice of honor killing in Pakistan through her latest Oscar-nominated documentary.

An Atkins diet doctor and author was convicted and given a prison term for tax evasion. Her case reveals what not to do when dealing with the IRS.

Just over six weeks ago, Ron Sasine started his own consultancy after working for some of the world’s largest companies from MeadWestvaco (Now WestRock) to, more recently, Wal-Mart where he led the private brands packa...

In today's entrepreneurial environment, couples are giving new meaning to "married to your work." Couple-preneurs are the new trend for startups. So, how can you manage both love and business effectively? Here are some t...

As organizations hunt for the latest innovation, are they failing to tap into the knowledge that exists in our universities? New research explores.

It’s probably one of last remaining golden pots for startup disruptors and it’s worth a cool $500 billion dollars; the on demand home services market is heating up with big players like Amazon and Google entering the...

GUEST: For nearly two years, Linux containers have dominated the world of enterprise IT, and for good reason — among others, they take on issues that virtualization simply cannot within application development and comp...

A few months ago, I found myself in a yard next to a school in Peru. Some Americans had come to give away shoes to students. I saw the students playing soccer, jumping rope, and dancing in their newly acquired shoes. It ...

GUEST: It’s no longer easy to get lost. Quite the opposite, we expect and rely on maps for our most common Internet tasks from basic directions to on-demand transportation, discovering a new restaurant or finding a new...