Startup News
Learn How One Millennial Sold A Tiny, Niche Business For $1 Million-Plus
Forbes - 30 Apr 2017 02:34
Dan Faggella, 29, sold his niche ecommerce store for more than $1 million. Here is his advice on how to sell a business for a great price.
Be A Visionary For Company -- And Your People, Too
Forbes - 30 Apr 2017 05:34
In the busy world of entrepreneurship, leaders often focus their energies on business strategy. But what if this same energy and time investment was made to create a vision for your employees? Here's why your people need...
LuLaRoe Takes Steps To Appease Customers Who Are Ripping Them To Shreds About Poor Quality Leggings
Forbes - 30 Apr 2017 23:57
Some customers complain that LuLaRoe's buttery soft leggings are defective, arriving with small holes or ripping too easily. A class action lawsuit recently filed seeks to push the company to change its practices and ref...
4 Reasons Your Freelance Prospect Opts For Your Competitor
Forbes - 30 Apr 2017 23:35
If you want to start getting your fair share of clients from your efforts, then you need to understand a few reasons prospects choose your competitor in the first place.
Tips to Kill the Burnout
Forbes - 30 Apr 2017 23:35
Keep it real and kill the burnout.
What I learned about building serverless apps
Venture Beat - 30 Apr 2017 23:33
GUEST: The term "serverless architecture" is a recent addition to the technology lexicon, coming into common use following the launch of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda in 2014. The term is both paradoxical and provocat...
Ric Edelman's Advice On Thriving Financially When You're Self-Employed
Forbes - 30 Apr 2017 22:49
Financial advisor Ric Edelman, author of The Truth about Your Future, offers strategies to thrive financially when you are self-employed.
Gwyneth Paltrow and Condé Nast to Launch Quarterly Goop Magazine
Forbes - 30 Apr 2017 22:41
The magazine - titled Goop - is expected to hit newsstands by September 2017.
Game Thinking wants to help product designers unlock their creativity
Venture Beat - 30 Apr 2017 22:05
Amy Jo Kim is a famous game designer who helped fashion some wondrously creative titles such as The Sims, Rock Band, and Covet Fashion. And now she is extracting what she calls “Game Thinking” from the process of mak...
Facebook Launches A Platform To Train Women Business Owners In The Middle East. Should It Do More?
Forbes - 30 Apr 2017 21:14
Facebook has partnered with three organizations to train 10,000 women business owners in the Middle East.
Corporate CEOs have failed to engage with startups
Venture Beat - 30 Apr 2017 21:10
GUEST: It’s time for corporate boards to add “startup engagement” to their CEOs' job descriptions. CEOs know it’s important to engage with startups, but startlingly few seem to do it themselves. Too often this cr...
Sacramento Bets On Women To Help Lead The Tech Economy
Forbes - 30 Apr 2017 20:59
FourthWave aims to close the access-to-capital gap for women, just like organizations such as the Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative -- an organization I've written about several times -- aim to close the gap fo...
Space Industry Ready To Blast Off Fueled By Government Partnerships
Forbes - 30 Apr 2017 20:53
The exploitation of space is getting a big boost from public money to help bring private industry into the game.
Trump's First 100 Days: You've Never Seen So Many Monsters
Forbes - 30 Apr 2017 20:20
Modern propaganda is usually more subtle and clever. What comes out of the White House is more reminiscent of WWI & WWII-era posters. Cartoon by Kirk Anderson.
If You Thought Trump's First 100 Days Were Long, Wait Until The NFL Draft
Forbes - 30 Apr 2017 20:16
The NFL Draft has morphed into one of the league's biggest events, arguably third behind the Super Bowl and Opening Day (sorry, Pro Bowl). That's insane, considering the NFL Draft is a dull event where nearly one-third o...
Sorry, Zuck: AR & VR won't replace TVs or phones
Venture Beat - 30 Apr 2017 20:08
GUEST: Last week's F8 conference is still generating a boatload of excitement, especially over CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of an era without smartphones or televisions. While Zuck is right to believe AR and VR will ha...
You Should Just Hang Up On IRS Collection Calls Legitimate Or Not
Forbes - 30 Apr 2017 19:51
After years of warnings about scams IRS is now telling us legitimate private collectors might be calling. There is no reason to try to sort out the difference. You should hang up on them also.
This is the time to bet on enterprise tech
Venture Beat - 30 Apr 2017 19:25
GUEST: Recent history alone should be enough to prove that enterprise tech is a far more stable, profitable category than consumer tech. Take for instance the dozens of successful exits (either through acquisition or IPO...
Surge in startups and capital could be bad news
Venture Beat - 30 Apr 2017 18:33
GUEST: Startup numbers have surged, and so have VC investments, according to data released earlier this month by Dow Jones VentureSource. But that’s not necessarily good news. I’ll get to the downside in a minute. Fi...
Moonfrog taps FarmVille creator to build epic Baahubali mobile game
Venture Beat - 30 Apr 2017 18:05
Baahubali 2: The Conclusion, a major film from Indian director S.S. Rajamouli, debuted this week. And it is accompanied by a new mobile game from Moonfrog Labs, dubbed S.S. Rajamouli’s Baahubali: The Game. The mobile g...
European tech is heading into its best days
Venture Beat - 30 Apr 2017 17:35
GUEST: The biggest economic story in Europe right now has nothing to do with populism, Brexit or Trump. It's not something that's happening in the boardrooms of our multinationals, and it's not something happening in the...
Nintendo Switch meets VR: Yep, somebody made it happen
Venture Beat - 30 Apr 2017 16:15
The Nintendo Switch has been out for over a month now, and it's still going strong. I play mine almost daily, even after finishing the full main story in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. New games are coming out ...