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Folks in legal weed have been borrowing from friends and family to expand, but new funding sources are on the horizon.

GUEST: In my senior year at the University of Michigan, one of my roommates and I had a nightly tradition: playing NCAA Football 2005 (it was 2007). We played every night because we were constantly learning each other’...

GUEST: The proliferation of blockchain startups and their mammoth ICOs show there’s a lot of interest in decentralizing applications and services. And though it’s an oxymoron, we're now seeing a few "centers" of "dec...

GUEST: Unlike many cities across the country, Chicago has no intention of trying to become the next Silicon Valley. The Windy City is happy doing what it does best: nurturing startups to leverage abundant opportunities a...

Regardless of your industry, you can be sure that your audience is on social media. And if you're not actively engaging with them there, then you're missing out on a massive opportunity.

Artificial intelligence is the newest technology adding efficiency and intellect to small business - don't be late to adapt; be better, faster, smarter operators with the use of AI. Before acting on an AI rollout, here a...

Minbar, an international entrepreneurship organization, will host its first startup competition in Minneapolis this month highlighting businesses created by Somali entrepreneurs across the globe. To be considered for the...

Here’s a hand-picked selection of five popular, noteworthy, or new Alexa skills worth trying from the Alexa Skills Store on Amazon.com. With the Lex bot framework and new Skills Management API, developers were given mo...

Should you pay up for a good domain name for your new business? Here's what one expert says...

GUEST: America's agricultural sector faces an unprecedented crisis. Native honeybees, one of the most prolific pollinators in the animal kingdom, are dying off at an unprecedented rate from Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD)...

A couple weeks ago. I dived deep into the efforts of Jules Urbach, the visionary fast-talking CEO and co-founder of Los Angeles-based Otoy. The forward-thinking founder of the rendering company is perpetually working at ...

GUEST: Conversational interfaces have become more common in our lives, from consumer bots on Facebook, to Alexa and Google helping us at home, to bots on Slack that make your working life easier and more productive. To u...

GUEST: Tech companies have worked hard over the past few years to make the music listening experience a ubiquitous one. Thanks to recent developments in streaming services and truly wireless headphones, we’re closer th...