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How To Create A Customer-Obsessed Company Like Netflix
Forbes - 12 Dec 2017 18:12
What can aspiring customer-centric companies learn from Netflix's achievements? Can startups compete with the industry goliaths who can afford to put their customer obsessions front and center?
SEC Chairman Statement On Crypto And ICOs Offers No Bright Line Tests
Forbes - 12 Dec 2017 03:06
SEC Chairman Jay Clayton furthered the agency's stance that whether or not a particular offering constitutes a security depends on the facts and circumstances of the case, plus gave the first indication of its stance on ...
Why Are You In Business? A Year-End Reflection
Forbes - 12 Dec 2017 16:43Six Surefire Ways To Increase Engagement On Your Social Media Posts
Forbes - 12 Dec 2017 16:00
It all starts with the image.
How Small Businesses Can Integrate Machine Learning Into Their Model
Forbes - 12 Dec 2017 16:00
Now is a great time for SMBs to use machine learning to give their businesses a leg up.
Tory Burch Foundation Teaches Women How To Grow Their Businesses
Forbes - 12 Dec 2017 15:46
Starting a business is challenging and good advice is hard to find. I asked Désirée Younge, Vice President at the Tory Burch Foundation what she advises the women in their entrepreneurship program. She explains how to ...
Vexatious Litigation Penalties Upheld Against The Courtroom Commando
Forbes - 12 Dec 2017 04:59
Ninth Circuit upholds Tax Court sanction against Donald "Mac" MacPherson, the Courtroom Commando.
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has a breakthrough control scheme
Venture Beat - 12 Dec 2017 23:50
Microsoft and The PUBG Corporation released PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds on the Xbox One today, and the unfinished last-player-standing shooter, which is available for $30 in the Game Preview program, needs a lot of p...
Love 3.0: How technology changes our definition of love, sex, and relationships
Venture Beat - 12 Dec 2017 23:33
OPINION: Last month, I traveled to Singapore to moderate a panel on Love 3.0 at the IMI Festival. The goal of the discussion was to assess whether technology has changed our definition of love, sex, and relationships. Se...
Cuphead developers bet everything on a 1930s-cartoon-style game
Venture Beat - 12 Dec 2017 22:31
Studio MDHR has sold an estimated 1.5 million copies of Cuphead for the PC and Xbox One since the challenging run-and-gun game debuted on September 29. It’s a surprise hit of the fall, made by a family-run company whos...
Entrepreneur Risks Everything To Launch Maternity Wardrobe Service And Make Her Family Proud
Forbes - 12 Dec 2017 22:19
Jenny Leung left a lucrative career in the corporate world to start up and innovative subscription service of professional maternity wear.
Low-wage workers drive the global AI labor market
Venture Beat - 12 Dec 2017 22:10
GUEST: Artificial intelligence will be one of the key drivers of the economic growth in the next few years. But what will drive the AI industry itself? Some consider AI technologies a secret weapon of a few high-paid eng...
Indiegogo starts listing initial coin offerings
Venture Beat - 12 Dec 2017 22:02
Crowdfunding platform Indiegogo announced today on its website that it will begin listing a select number of initial coin offerings, in yet another step by the company to move beyond perk-based crowdfunding. While ICOs w...
China is right: The world doesn't need Silicon Valley
Venture Beat - 12 Dec 2017 21:45
GUEST: Ever since the Chinese Government banned Facebook in 2009, Mark Zuckerberg has been making annual trips there attempting to persuade its leaders to let his company back in. He learned Mandarin and jogged through t...
Overwatch's second Winter Wonderland has some icy cool new skins
Venture Beat - 12 Dec 2017 21:25
Seasonal events bring new game modes, but many Overwatch fans especially look forward to the new costumes. The second Winter Wonderland, which starts today and lasts until January 1, doesn’t disappoint in that departme...
Overwatch's Winter Wonderland is now live with new mode, Mei's Yeti Hunt
Venture Beat - 12 Dec 2017 21:04
Overwatch has gotten into the holiday spirit with the launch of Winter Wonderland, a seasonal event that is now live for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC team-based shooter. Overwatch doesn’t charge players for new ...
For Tax Matters Use The United States Postal Service And Don't Cut It Too Close
Forbes - 12 Dec 2017 20:52
When facing tax deadlines, particularly with the Tax Court, don't cut it close and use the United States Postal Service all the way through.
5 Factors That Can Make Or Break Your Marketing Strategy
Forbes - 12 Dec 2017 20:48
The marketing strategy for a given brand can be the difference between success and failure. But just like everything else in life there's a right way and a wrong way to go about it.
How 34 Illinois tech organizations are working to close the diversity gap
Venture Beat - 12 Dec 2017 20:20
GUEST: Diversity is a major topic of conversation in tech, but so far, that conversation hasn’t significantly improved representation of women and minorities in the industry. In a recent survey conducted by First Round...
Want To Be Happier In 2018? Spend More Money
Forbes - 12 Dec 2017 19:27
If you're coming to the end of 2017 bemoaning the fact that you weren't able to accomplish a fraction of what you had intended to over the past year, there's a way to make sure that doesn't happen in 2018. Spend more mon...
The Political And Communal Power of Dinnertime
Forbes - 12 Dec 2017 19:11
Around the country, activists and chefs are using food and the age-old tradition of gathering for a meal as the stage for civic engagement.
Why America's Special Ops Command Is Recruiting Disruptors
Forbes - 12 Dec 2017 19:09
U.S. Special Command looks to Tampa's ecosystem to solve problems.