You Are The DNA Of Your Company. What You Are It Will Become
Everyone knows the importance of hiring well. Everyone knows that the people they hire will set the culture and the prospects of the company. Anyone who has ever worked in a company has seen that the...
View ArticleScience Is Not A Democracy
Ted Cruz, with a loaded statement from a questionable science news source, during a hearing on climate change on December 8, 2015. Image credit: SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images. And, at a fundamental...
View ArticleParabol Friday Ship 13-May-2016
New Faces, On-Boarding, & Quickbooks Each week Parabol shares its progress in a ‘Friday Ship’. This post originally appeared on the Parabol blog. ‘Grass’ by Joel Hatfield: https://flic.kr/p/c4iAtS...
View ArticleAligning Sales And Marketing Needs To Be Your Priority
It’s no secret that sales and marketing teams don’t always play nice with each other. After all, each department has a different set of goals that are commonly misunderstood by each other. The thing...
View ArticleGet Ready: Video Ads Are Coming To Pinterest
Pinterest has long been considering how to join platforms like Facebook and Twitter in offering video ads, and according to recent reports by Digiday, the new ads are finally on the horizon. A few...
View ArticleMark Suster, The Kind Of VC Every Entrepreneur Needs But Most Don’t Get… —...
Mark Suster, the kind of VC every entrepreneur needs but most don’t get… The uBeam story raced like a wildfire through the media for all the usual reasons. This note is not about uBeam though. They...
View ArticleAutomatic Lays Off 28% Of Its Workforce, Aims For Profitability In 2017
Image Credit: Automatic Automatic is laying off 24 of its employees, which equates to about 28 percent of its workforce. The connected car platform company said that the layoffs are distributed across...
View ArticleThe Open-Office Concept Is Dead
The staff at W&P Design, a New York-based startup that makes trendy barware and cocktail kits, has an unspoken policy: headphones in means “don’t bother me.” Lead designer Justin Fuller often wears...
View ArticleThe Major Security Risks Small Businesses Face And How To Defend Against Them
No business is completely safe from security vulnerabilities. Just look at Target, Home Depot and TJ Maxx. While these well-known companies may seem like a more attractive target for hackers, the...
View Article5 Advantages Young Entrepreneurs Have Over Older Counterparts
Join us live with Marcus Lemonis at Thought Leaders Arizona on May 24. Seats are limited--secure yours now >> I am so pro-millennial. Not just because I am one, but because of all of the articles...
View ArticleOverwatch: One Of The Biggest Betas Ever Made A Promising Game great
Above: D. Va vs. Genji. Image Credit: Blizzard If you think all betas are glorified demos, you’re wrong. Gamers are buzzing about Overwatch, Blizzard’s upcoming team-based shooter. While it doesn’t...
View ArticleWhy I Trust My Remote Team Completely (And What To Do If You Don’t Trust Yours)
Kristina & Tom from Team Edgar, feeling very trustworthyWhen I launched my first software startup, MeetEdgar, I was pregnant with my first child. As a new mom I had no idea what to expect as far...
View ArticleThe Insane Possibilities Of Virtual Reality
When I stepped into the Virtual Reality lab with my colleagues, I was skeptical about why it was such a big deal. I had seen 3D movies before and how different would this possibly be? Someone handed me...
View ArticleAT&T Acquires OTT Video Platform Quickplay Ahead Of DirecTV Streaming Service...
Above: AT&T Image Credit: Shutterstock Telecom giant AT&T has announced plans to acquire Quickplay Media, a cloud-based platform that powers over-the-top (OTT) video services. Founded out of...
View Article21 Women Who Got Labelled ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriends’ Tell Their Side Of The Story
camy93 / www.twenty20.com/photos/102f1210-c1cf-47ef-a408-5f27a75a09cd1. Boyfriend Takes Everything, Blames Her When She’s Had Enough We got engaged and decided to buy a house. I put up the whole down...
View ArticleTop 5 Social Media Analytics Tools
Social media analytics is gathering data from your social platforms and using it to guide your marketing strategy. You need to determine goals and key performance indicators (KPIs). Your KPI will...
View ArticleBlockchain Open Sources Thunder Network, Paving The Way For Instant Bitcoin...
Blockchain, the company behind the world’s most popular bitcoin wallet, has been quietly working on an interesting project called Thunder. The Thunder network is an alternative network of nodes that...
View ArticleThe GAAP For Startups
This post highlights the work of Silicon Valley venture firm, Social Capital. Their goal is to create a GAAP-like standard for startup companies to use with the hope it helps to guide investors and...
View ArticleWhy Salespeople Hate Salesforce
Salespeople typically don’t like charts, reports or math. I personally been involved with thousands of “sales automation” projects, that are being used by probably 100,000 salespeople or so. The...
View ArticleIf I Was Twenty-Two, I’d Join A Startup
Twenty-two is something of a crossroads. For fresh graduates, it’s the typical age at which you find yourself required to pick out your career path (if you haven’t done so already), and not everyone...
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