Startup News
3 Lessons On How To Launch A Start-Up From A Successful Small Business Owner
Forbes - 25 Mar 2018 00:51
With the challenges of limited resources, time, and experience, starting a company from scratch can be as daunting as it is exciting. Successful small business owner, Dan Smith, founder of Smith Publicity, shares his sta...
15 arguments against taxing cryptocurrency trades
Venture Beat - 25 Mar 2018 23:33
GUEST: Last year, Congress passed a law treating every crypto-to-crypto trade as a taxable event. That’s a mistake. Cryptocurrencies are too novel, fraught, and susceptible to unintended consequences to be taxed the sa...
Ninja Theory's masterful Hellblade will debut on Xbox One on April 11
Venture Beat - 25 Mar 2018 22:05
Ninja Theory announced that it will publish Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice on the Xbox One and enhanced for Xbox One X on April 11. The game debuted last summer on the PC, and it was my favorite title of the year. Hellbl...
Best Fiends boss Andrew Stalbow: When a hit turns into a brand
Venture Beat - 25 Mar 2018 19:25
Andrew Stalbow, CEO of Seriously, knows that the stakes are getting high in the $48 billion mobile game business. Every company is zeroing in on keeping players engaged with fewer, better, and stronger titles. Stalbow’...
What Happens When You Invest In Entrepreneurship At The Margins
Forbes - 25 Mar 2018 18:00
Marginalized communities--in the US and abroad--are fountains of untapped entrepreneurial potential. Here's how investing in them can generate impact for individuals, neighborhoods, and entire regions.
IGDA interview: Jen MacLean is relaunching game developers group
Venture Beat - 25 Mar 2018 17:35
Boston area game developer Jen MacLean was named interim executive director of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) in September, and her appointment became permanent in February. Now she’s starting to ...
VR is a great destination, not a mere pit stop to AR
Venture Beat - 25 Mar 2018 16:15
If you’ve spent any time reading about virtual reality and augmented reality, you’ve certainly encountered some variation on this phrase: “VR is only a stepping stone to AR.” Just this past week, Epic Games’ ch...
PODCAST: Business Owners Routinely Risk Their Homes To Borrow Money. Should They?
Forbes - 25 Mar 2018 15:10
Ami Kassar, founder of Multifunding and author of a new book, 'The Growth Dilemma,' talks about what business owners need to know about banks and borrowing.
Fortnite is huge due to consoles, but it exists because of PC
Venture Beat - 25 Mar 2018 15:00
Fortnite is one of those games that forces someone like me — someone who is supposed to see trends coming — to recalibrate. All through 2017, I was playing and enjoying PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, and I also loved...
Autonomous Cars Won't Work - Until We Have 5G
Forbes - 25 Mar 2018 14:00The Scariest Chart For Business In The Coming Decade: Workers Not Available
Forbes - 25 Mar 2018 13:30
The scariest chart I've ever developed shows that the pool of available workers will grow at the slowest pace since the Civil War. If your business plans include expansion, either figure out a way to do it without more w...
Questions Of Identity - The UK Scrapped An I.D. Card Scheme So Can A Startup Fill The Gap?
Forbes - 25 Mar 2018 13:15
At the beginning of the decade an incoming Conservative government scrapped plans for a national UK identity card scheme. But many people need I.D but aren't keen on carrying passports or even driving licences everywhere...
Why Letting Go Of The Reins Might Be The Best Thing You Can Do For Your Content
Forbes - 25 Mar 2018 13:13The Facebook "Scandal" May Affect Google and Microsoft...And Other Small Business Tech News This Week
Forbes - 25 Mar 2018 13:00Oculus Go hands-on: going lean
Venture Beat - 25 Mar 2018 12:34
One of the very first things I did in Oculus Go was lean. I was playing Settlers of Catan at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, and where the Experiment 7 studio demonstrating cross-play from Rift to Oculus...
Falling In Love With A Cat-Eating Humanoid Amphibian May Be Humanity's Best Bet
Forbes - 25 Mar 2018 09:18
As predicted by climate scientists, severe weather events becoming more frequent and more severe. Now comes word that the ice at the North Pole is melting at a rate faster than those anticipated by the most pessimistic p...
Creed: Rise to Glory hands-on -- Friday night at the fights
Venture Beat - 25 Mar 2018 04:03
It feels like we’ve seen a lot of VR boxing games. From Thrill of the Fight and Soundboxing to Knockout League and now an officially licensed Creed: Rise to Glory VR game in partnership with MGM Interactive, the Sweet ...