Why You Should Start a Consulting CompanyInc Magazine - Jon WestenbergI've got something I need to explain to you. You don't need to go and found the next Google to call yourselves entrepreneurs. You don't need to be building Snapchat, Facebook or anything else. You don't
Stop Waiting for Your Billion-Dollar Idea and Do This InsteadFortune - Eimantas Balciunas Conventional wisdom says that if entrepreneurs want to be successful they should strive to create breakthrough tech products in new and huge …
5 Things You Should Unlearn About MarketingInc Magazine - Adele CehrsLearn from top marketers at IBM, Hawaiian Airlines, and Brooks Brothers. The belief that entrepreneurs can't market like the big guys is a marketing myth in itself. While you may not have the budget of
A house-flipping startup raised $210 millionrecode.net - Jason Del Rey Opendoor, a Silicon Valley startup that mines data to buy homes, sight unseen, and flip them for a profit, has raised a $210 million investment led …
Employment 8 Telltale Signs Your Company Is Going UnderEntrepreneur - John RamptonBoundless optimism is required to launch a business but a steady grip on reality is required to stay in business. You’ve heard it time and time again: 90 percent of all startups fail. Yet, we keep taking
In 5 Years, Your Entire Office Will Fit In A Backpack To Take Wherever You Wantfastcoexist.com - Adele Peters One designer has a new proposal: A pop-up personal office that you can carry in a backpack, and set up in a new type of urban park. The design was …
Which of these three types of business should you start?huffingtonpost.com - Cat LeBlanc Entrepreneurship is sexy right now. The lure of quitting the 9-5 and being in charge of your own destiny is strong. The quote from Tony Gaskins "If …
Podcasts Podcasting is the new bloggingThe Globe and Mail - AVERY SWARTZCall it the Serial Effect – named for the true crime podcast that went viral in 2014 – but podcasting seems to have reached a tipping point in popular culture. According to The Infinite Dial 2016, a study
Military The Top 25 Veteran-Founded Startups In AmericaForbes - Mark L. RockefellerOver the past two months, we scoured the country for the best veteran-owned startups in the nation. We asked venture capitalists, angel investors, veteran founders and industry experts to send us ideas.
The four pledges I took to make my life bettermedium.com - Vartika Kashyap Life is all about change. As they say “we cannot become what we want to be by remaining what we are”. It takes great courage and perseverance to …
Apps are dying. Long live the subservient bots ready to fulfil your every desireWired UK - James Temperton The app boom is over. There are now more than 4.2 million apps available for Android and iOS, but three-quarters of American smartphone users …
What I Learned From Developing Branding for Airbnb, Dropbox and Thumbtackfirstround.com - First Round Review There are plenty of theories for why YouTube became one of the fastest growing startups in Silicon Valley history. Julie Supan says the reason is …
Entrepreneurship 4 Steps to Reinventing Yourself After Hitting Rock BottomEntrepreneur - Calvin WaymanFailure is the unpleasant beginning of being reborn as an entrepreneur. Hitting rock bottom -- as energetic, smart and business-savvy entrepreneurial -- types, this dreadful phrase is simply not in our
Employment A Lesson in Leadership: How to Powerfully Influence Others by Doing These 5 Things Every DayInc Magazine - Marcel SchwantesPut these habits in play to exercise influence like a boss. We've all heard the John Maxwell saying "leadership is influence." Easier said than done, right? The real challenge is figuring out how to do
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo How to Start a Luxury Brand with Just $300huffingtonpost.com - Molly Reynolds What does $300 buy you these days? A couple of weeks' food shopping? A stylish pair of shoes? A multi-million-dollar skincare brand? That's what …
Indiegogo Smart pen measures the dimensions of virtually any objectEngadget - Jon FingasThe Instrumments 01 sends depth, height and length right to your smartphone. Despite all the technological advances over the years, measuring items in your home still tends to involve old-school rulers
7 Ways to Improve Your Writing, According to ExpertsTIME - Eric BarkerBarker is the author of Barking Up The Wrong Tree Sometimes you don’t know what you want to say. Other times you don’t know the right way to say it. And very often you can’t get your butt in the chair
Amazon's cloud is bigger than Microsoft, Google and IBM combined, researcher saysBusiness Insider - Julie BortIn its latest quarterly analysis, the market research firm says that AWS accounted for 45% of the revenue generated by public "infrastructure as a service" (IaaS) providers. IaaS is the cloud market that
An entrepreneur who makes $135,000 a month shares 2 productivity hacks for balancing a side hustle with family lifeBusiness Insider - Alex MorrellFew people can cram more productivity into a day than Pat Flynn. The entrepreneur runs " Smart Passive Income," a resource designed to help others run an online business and optimize it for passive income.
The Science Behind Baking the Most Delicious Cookie EverSouthern Living - Anne Miller Because, c’mon, we’re talking chocolate chip cookies here. You like soft and chewy. He likes thin and crispy. If only there were a chocolate chip …
Meet the Only Female General Partner at Alphabet’s VC ArmFortune - Polina Marinova Avid Larizadeh Duggan is the only female general partner at GV, Alphabet’s early-stage investment arm. Larizadeh Duggan is also only one of two women …
These 11 Inactions Will Kill Your Reputation as a LeaderInc Magazine - Scott MautzFor every action, there's a reaction. But for the leader's 11 worst inactions, there's a chain reaction--of undesirable consequences. As a leader, you don't want to be defined by the things you didn't
How to Collaborate in Notes with iOS 10 on iPhoneiPhoneLife - Conner Carey* This post is part of iPhone Life's Tip of the Day newsletter. Sign Up. * With iOS 10 on iPhone, you can collaborate in Notes with your friends. This is helpful, especially, for shared grocery or to-do
Furniture Selency raises $3.3 million for its online marketplace for second-hand furnitureTechCrunch - Romain DilletFrench startup Selency (formerly known as Brocante Lab) has raised a $3.3 million Series A round (€3 million) led by Accel with Kima Ventures participating. Many of you should be familiar with online retailers
Online retailers are struggling to meet the high standard Amazon set for delivering ordersBusiness Insider - The Motley FoolAmazon.com has set a standard for delivering online orders that other companies have struggled to meet. On the positive side for other digital retailers, their shipping times have been steadily improving,
Blue Apron is on pace for more than $1 billion in sales as it preps for an IPOrecode.net - Jason Del Rey Blue Apron, the grocery startup that ships boxes of recipes and ingredients to the homes of wannabe chefs, is on track to surpass $1 billion in …
We checked the prices and it turns out Costco is much cheaper than Amazon PrimeBusiness Insider - Hayley PetersonIt turns out that Costco is the cheapest by a landslide, with an average discount of 19% on items where there was a price discrepancy. To determine which retailer is cheaper, we went to a Costco store
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo By Saying 'No' To Lucrative Clients, This Entrepreneur Said 'Yes' To Fast Growthhuffingtonpost.com - Verne Harnish Scott Smigler got into internet marketing early and built a thriving business. It was only when he prepared for his scaleup that he discovered he had …
How to Position Yourself as an Authority in Your Nichehuffingtonpost.com - MaryEllen Tribby Yes, nearly everyone has the ability to be a thought leader, an authority or an expert in their niche. about your topic to be considered an expert - …
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