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The real story of entrepreneurship is one of constant rejection, frayed relationships, inevitable betrayal, roller coasters of emotions, and a rocky process whereby "work" and "life" become one. Here are two ways to surv...

With SEO, cutting budget significantly can ruin your campaign. The goal, then, is not to simply spend less time or money, but to spend your time and money more effectively. Here are 5 ways to do so.

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

GUEST: Arnold Schwarzenegger had cameos in all major sports broadcasts this month — and it’s all thanks to one hit mobile strategy game. GamesBeat has partnered with iSpot.tv, which measures TV advertising in real-ti...

GUEST: It’s trendy for marketers to BAM-KAPOW their visitors with pop-up pleas to “JOIN OUR MAILING LIST!” These animated boxes, powered by hot startups like SumoMe and OptinMonster, promise a firm ROI handshake. I...

The 12th in a preview from cartoonist Ted Rall?s upcoming graphic biography of Donald Trump, "Trump: A Graphic Biography."

GUEST: One of the issues facing chatbot developers, one which is particularly important given how popular some of the existing bots are and the number of bots already on Facebook Messenger, is that their bots will also h...

GUEST: Russia began enforcing a law last year requiring data relating to Russians to be stored on servers that physically sit in Russia. Now, word has leaked of a new law (currently in draft form) that would attempt to f...

In 2006 Steve Jobs said, “Music is so deep within all of us, but it’s easy to go for a day or a week or a month or a year without really listening to music.” I find that to be true. It just feels weird to not liste...

We've all been there: You're at work, and it's performance review day, which doesn't go well. Or you post something online, and there are a number of people who disagree with you. Or you voice an opinion, make a project...

When it comes to successful investing, two is better than one. This is why investors commonly pool resources together and forge partnerships. But for all of the benefits that come with investment partnerships, there’s ...

GUEST: Venture capital investors, to a person, claim that they invest in teams, not product. Strong teams, they argue, can respond to changing market dynamics and pivot, if necessary, to the right product. For that reaso...

VB EVENT: VentureBeat’s international botathon got underway this morning with more than 200 teams competing in a hackathon for chatbots. Believed to be the first of its kind, the competition is taking place in San Fran...

McDonald’s has a reputation for paying very little money to its low-skill floor employees, barely above the minimum wage. But it pays big bucks to recruit and retain skilled employees who will formulate the company’s...

Charisma isn't something that you're simply born with; it's a skill that takes time and practice to develop.

Ex-Army man Jerry Flanagan's junk removal franchisor sells franchises only to veterans and their family members.

GUEST: Within the venture capital industry, we all have different styles when we talk to entrepreneurs. Even within the same team: I tend to ask lots of detailed questions on the business and the product, for example, wh...

ANALYSIS: 2016 could go down in history as the year the autonomous vehicle onslaught went full tilt. While the history of self-driving cars goes back decades — Carnegie Mellon University Navigation Laboratory was devel...

So how are you supposed to refer to the other half of a couple that lives together with neither the burdens nor benefits of marriage? At the suggestion of my friend Jonathan Schwartz, I have decided to go with covivant ...

We're just two months away from the anniversary of the reveal of the consumer Gear VR. So it’s time to wonder if a successor is around the corner. A new listing on an Indian import database seems to suggest so. As Dutc...

This Oregon-based company is as much about passion as it is about products.

Hillary Clinton responded on Friday to a scathing assessment by the Federal Bureau of Investigation that she was "extremely careless" with classified government secrets by shifting the blame onto her former colleagues at...