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Increasingly people are so correct?politically or emotionally?that there seems to be a war on candor. As an entrepreneur and a marketer, this trend terrifies me. And it should scare you too.

If you've ever been in the situation where you work from home, you know the importance of trying, where possible, to carve out a workspace that is as distinct as possible from your living space.

GUEST: We meet with many early stage entrepreneurs who have product in market and have moderate early success in getting customers to pay. Their traction isn’t good enough to convince investors that they've achieved pr...

GUEST: Here's the good news: The famous “Apple Tax” is dropping to 15% after one year, and developers can finally offer subscriptions. Here's the bad news for app developers: Apple still owns your billing relationshi...

In the content marketing realm, these are the techniques you need to be using if you want to be a better marketer:

VB LIVE: Not all companies play on the up and up. Some go to the dark side and use Black Hat ASO to help their app rankings. In the fourth part of this in-depth six-part master class series on ASO, our experts will give ...

Chinese-backed carmaker Faraday Future is still likely a few years away from releasing its first electric car, but the company is quickly expanding its operations and footprint. Faraday broke ground on a factory in North...

Learn to move from where customer complaints are a problem, to a place in which customer's who voice concerns become a valuable ally in growing your businesses profitably.

GUEST: The LDV Vision Summit took place in New York a couple of weeks ago, focusing on the high-potential area of computer vision. It covered everything from 3D imaging and VR to deep learning and Facebook Live (I even g...

GUEST: Chatbots are talking up a storm. Some are making sense; most aren't. In the era of conversational UI, every word matters. The conversational copy you write will define your bot's personality and amplify your compa...

A new report examines the state of civic tech --and why it hasn't made a bigger splash.

Every season tens of thousands of entrepreneurs get rejected after auditioning for ABC’s hit business reality show Shark Tank. Many who have appeared on the show desperately needed the money to save their business. One...

Pegasystems invited me as their guest to attend Pegaworld 2016, their annual users conference. 3,500 attendees, 12 keynote speakers, 100 customer presentations and 20 chess matches. Yes, chess matches... Alan Trefler, th...

Here's an overview of the 10 biggest European tech news items for this week:

In a world where we are increasingly seeking careers that provide personal fulfillment instead of just a paycheck, travel agents say their profession can't be beat.

Lavish expenses aren't tax deductible, but millions for a single lunch with Warren Buffett is.

Yina Sun, an American student, vividly recalls her trip to Awendo, a town in Kenya. “Every house I visited, there was a mother cooking over a three-stone fire stove with smoke blowing in her face, spreading everywhere....

Microsoft’s Xbox One console is selling faster than the Xbox 360, but the company is trailing Sony’s PlayStation 4. At next week’s Electronic Entertainment Expo, Microsoft may have a few surprises in its efforts to...

VB LIVE: Bots, done right, are the cutting-edge form of interactive communications that captivates and engages users. But what kind of potential do they have for sales and marketing reach? Listen in as experts take a fra...

Sony is gonna go right from a blockbuster hit in Uncharted 4 to hyping up gamers for virtual reality at next week’s Electronic Entertainment Expo trade show in Los Angeles. The first pre-E3 media briefing starts Sunday...

INV Accelerator is a new, virtual accelerator for fintech startups, that provides both technology assistance and connections --and potential investment--from leading banks.