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Acquiring your company's initial customers can be the first indication of whether the business is viable or not. That's why it's critical to build a customer base from day one, and nurture those client relationships. Fiv...

How can we make changes that allow us to succeed in our careers, while holding onto some relationships and letting go of others? What's the right mix?

One business owner who invested 10 percent of her income in personal development and training found that revenue grew 40 percent last year.

No, this doesn't mean your employees are all secretly social media influencers.

Thinking about starting a new venture? Here are five things you want to think through before you take the leap.

Diana Liberto lacked tech and startup experience when the idea for WalkMyMind came to her, so she found experts who could help. "The idea was sprung from adversity and a desire to help others," she says. GlobalFit recent...

GUEST: During an AI podcast a couple months ago, someone asked me if AI would be the next big tech bubble to burst. This question led me to think about what AI is today and where it's headed. What is AI, really? It's a n...

What you are holding in your hand represents the veritable excelsior for the craft of making cannabis cigars. This petite, greenish colored and natural leaf (cannabis leaf) wrapped creation has a stick poked right down t...

Debbie Bestwick has been in the games business for 31 years, and she has known nothing else. Starting with her first job in a game store in the United Kingdom, she stayed put and grew up with gaming. As CEO of game publi...

GUEST: With all the coverage of startups in the news, sitcoms, and movies, it's easy to learn everything you need to know about building your business by watching TV. Of course, there's no question your startup will be a...

ANALYSIS: Five years ago, SaaS giant Salesforce acquired ExactTarget, an email marketing software company, for about $2.5 billion. In Silicon Valley, that type of acquisition would make news — but it wouldn’t be unpr...

Successful serial entrepreneurs might make some of these mistakes once, but they'll never make them again

GUEST: You can hardly go a day without seeing an article heralding the prodigal rise of Berlin's startup scene. It is true that Berlin has tremendous momentum and potential. There is an iconoclastic streak to the city, a...

GUEST: On Diablo 2’s 18th anniversary, Blizzard North’s designers recount the triumphs and pitfalls of growing the game’s skill trees. In the mid-1990s, computer role-playing games were not easy to play. Their begi...

No, you don't want a team where everyone is "a cop on the edge," but for your company to thrive, you're occasionally going to need to let people break your rules.

Here are five things in technology that happened this past week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them?

Oculus Medium, the company's VR sculpting app that launched alongside its Touch controllers in December 2016, just got a big update adding some crucial new features. Headlining Oculus Medium 2.0 is the ability to bring t...

The speedrunning marathon Summer Games Done Quick 2018 just wrapped up a week of great (and fast) gaming that streamed live on Twitch, and the event managed to raise $2,122,529 for Doctors Without Borders. That is a new ...

Researchers found that entrepreneurs conveying "positive psychological capital" saw better crowdfunding performance.

Music-based rhythm games are great. Some of my favorite gaming memories involve being huddled around plastic guitars and drum sets in Rock Band or pounding on a DDR dance pad with friends. What those games have in common...

Sheryl O'Loughlin former CEO at Clif Bar Company, and now CEO at REBBL shares what motivates her to create products that will nourish the body, her vision for REBBL and how entrepreneurs can build innovative companies.

GUEST: There's more published content on AI in today's media than ever before. We read about the milestones that AI has surpassed, like Deepmind's AlphaGo beating the world's best Go player or Facebook's facial recogniti...