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Find Your Customers With A Target Market Analysis
Forbes - 9 Jan 2017 22:22
You can find new customers for your small business by completing a target market anaylsis. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock Whether you're just starting or growing your business, you need to know who your customers are and...
Resilience: The Skill Above All Others That Helps Entrepreneurs To Excel
Forbes - 9 Jan 2017 16:00
Leadership expert Bonnie St. John shows how "micro resilience" can introduce the small adjustments that result in major shifts over time.
Atlassian is buying my beloved Trello for $425 million
Venture Beat - 9 Jan 2017 16:00
Publicly traded business software company Atlassian is announcing today that it’s acquiring Trello, the startup behind an eponymous task-management app, for a total of $425 million, with $360 million in cash and the re...
Beware IRS Audits Of Offshore Account Filings
Forbes - 9 Jan 2017 15:56
FATCA forced many offshore account holders into the open. You may have filed, but IRS is auditing Streamlined filers, and asking about willfulness.
Meet Two Young Entrepreneurs Who Raised $221 Million To Disrupt Craigslist
Forbes - 9 Jan 2017 15:50
In the mobile-driven economy, this company is disrupting how we buy and sell goods. And it's totally free.
Razer confirms 2 prototype laptops stolen from CES
Venture Beat - 9 Jan 2017 23:26
Theft has struck one of gaming’s biggest hardware companies. Razer confirmed to GamesBeat that two of its Project Valerie laptop prototypes were stolen from its booth at last week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las V...
Microsoft confirms Platinum Games' Scalebound is canceled
Venture Beat - 9 Jan 2017 23:07
Microsoft is starting 2017 by killing off a notable console exclusive. Earlier today, Kotaku reported that the publisher had cancelled the action-role-playing game Scalebound. Microsoft has now confirmed to the publicati...
The weirdest gadgets coming in 2017
Venture Beat - 9 Jan 2017 23:03
It isn’t easy to find the oddball gadgets across CES. This year’s big tech trade show in Las Vegas covered more than 2.6 million square feet of event space, with nearly 4,000 exhibitors. But as usual, we came back wi...
Marc Benioff, Eric Ries, Dave McClure back effort to fund coding academy in Gaza
Venture Beat - 9 Jan 2017 22:55
A number of Silicon Valley leaders have banded together to support a crowdfunding effort to build the first coding academy in Gaza. The campaign, which started December 13, is called #PowerUpGazaGeeks and now has the bac...
Why AI must be redefined as 'augmented intelligence'
Venture Beat - 9 Jan 2017 22:20
GUEST: Popular visions of artificial intelligence often focus on robots and the dystopian future they will create for humanity, but to understand the true impact of AI, its skeptics and detractors should look at the futu...
Proof tells you when you've had too much to drink
Venture Beat - 9 Jan 2017 22:10
Have you ever wondered if you should have just one more drink? Your body may say no, but your mind objects. Proof wants to put an end to the internal debate with a wearable that functions as a stylish, but conspicuous br...
Meet The 3 Women Leading Big Changes At Visa, Zillow And Fitbit
Forbes - 9 Jan 2017 22:09
I spoke to the three women at the center of big changes to learn more about what they did, how they did it, and what they learned along the way.
Hint Water, Zuckerberg Media and Birchbox CEOs Share Advice On The Power Of Your Brand Story
Forbes - 9 Jan 2017 21:54
Kara Goldin, CEO and cofounder of Hint Inc., Randi Zuckerberg, bestselling author and founder of Zuckerberg Media and Katia Beauchamp, CEO and cofounder of Birchbox Megan Grassell, the founder of Yellowberry asked a ques...
Hearthstone's Winter Championship will fly south to the Bahamas -- with a $250,000 prize purse
Venture Beat - 9 Jan 2017 21:37
Considering how cold and miserable it is in most of the Northern Hemisphere right now, the Bahamas sound lovely … especially with some high-level Hearthstone play to keep you entertained. Blizzard announced today that ...
Moen's smart shower remembers your perfect water temperature
Venture Beat - 9 Jan 2017 21:14
In a new wrinkle on the Internet of Things, you can now get a smart shower that notifies you when your water temperature is just right. All you do is preset what your favorite water temperature is and it remembers to res...
Improve Your Health, Improve Your Business: Lessons From A High School Hall Of Fame Coach
Forbes - 9 Jan 2017 21:07
When you love what you do, and you work at it consistently, you achieve successes in life and in sports.
CardLinx Makes Card-Linking Software Publicly Available
Venture Beat - 9 Jan 2017 20:57
PRESS RELEASE: The CardLinx Association ("CardLinx") today announced the availability of a new open source card-linking software suite developed by Microsoft, one of its founding members. Microsoft has made the codebase ...
Microsoft releases new Windows 10 preview with a massive list of features and improvements
Venture Beat - 9 Jan 2017 20:35
Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 preview for PCs with a ridiculously long list of improvements. This is the first new build of 2017 and shows what’s coming in the company’s Windows 10 Creators Update, which ...
Why Strategic Investment Isn't Always A Good Strategy For Startups
Forbes - 9 Jan 2017 20:04
Big corporations are hungry to invest in startups today, from tech giants like Google to companies such as Comcast and GM. Whether that money is good for entrepreneurs, however, is much more complicated. Here's a compreh...
My Leadership Resolutions For 2017
Forbes - 9 Jan 2017 20:02
It's the beginning of the year and the perfect time to reflect on what I want to accomplish this year. As the co-CEO of a fast-growing business, my role evolves each year. Eight years ago, when we launched, some of my re...
You can hang LG's 2.57-millimeter-thick wallpaper TV with magnets
Venture Beat - 9 Jan 2017 20:00
CES 2017 went by in a blur, but one of the memorable moments was when LG introduced its 2.57-millimeter-thick Wallpaper TV. The LG Signature W7 OLED 4K TV is a very impressive piece of technology. LG announced the televi...
Dragon Ball gaming trivia: Learn Goku and Vegeta's death battle and Majin Buu's babies
Venture Beat - 9 Jan 2017 19:20
This trivia is over 9,000 …. somethings. YouTube channel Did You Know Gaming‘s latest video looks at some of the little-known facts and cut content from video games based on the popular Dragon Ball Z anime. The show ...