Launching a Tech Startup While Raising Young Kids? 4 Tips to Keep You Sane
We've all come across technology stories with the headline usually reading something like Ex-Google engineers want to be [insert name of any hot startup] for [insert emerging market]. The stories are...
View ArticleWill We Still Target Millennials When They Are 75 or Will We Instead Focus on...
So asked a recent client of mine when we were (yet again) talking about how to reach millennials. When marketers talk about reaching millennials, they are talking about reaching people born between...
View ArticleHow A Little Madness Can Help Us Go A Long Way
Ever heard the phrase "there's method in their madness"? Well, what is being referred to here, is something which looked absolutely crazy to start with, but that might actually not be such bad idea...
View ArticleWhy Science and Philosophy Should Guide Today's Youth in Creating a More...
This is the last installment of a five-part WorldPost series on the world beyond 2050. The series is adapted from the Nierenberg Prize Lecture by Lord Martin Rees in La Jolla, Calif. Part one is...
View ArticleHow the Women's Entrepreneurship Fund Can Help Change the Entire Entrepreneur...
Women at the 2015 Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Kenya [U.S. Embassy Nairobi Photo] I met Julie Hanna at last year's Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Kenya. As the Executive Chair of the Board for...
View ArticleA Brief History of the Cool Office
Once upon a time, every office looked the same. If you went into a business in the 1950s anywhere in the country, the furniture was as formulaic as the gray flannel suits worn by the executives running...
View ArticleInvest in Who You Know - Part 2: Spooky Reporting at a Distance
Most people don't have the ability, flexibility or funds to invest like a professional, and a more common approach for 'investing in what you know' takes the form of how well you can follow a company,...
View ArticleHow to Handle Your Books When Your Money Is Off the Books: Financial Planning...
Freelancing and being self-employed are the new frontier in the American economy. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of self-employed workers in the U.S. increased from 14.5 to...
View ArticleSoul Crushing Business Introductions That Make Me Cry
I get about one to three painful introductions a week and every time I want to cry a little bit. They're those shapeless, vague introductions that leave me drunk with confusion and heavy with pointless...
View ArticleThe Uncanny Valley of Fashion
While there has always been an appreciation for vintage clothing, this market did not really take off until the 90s. Shrewd fashion entrepreneurs, like Hayati Banastey, figured out it was possible to...
View Article6 Strategies to Grow Your Business Using Instagram
Between January 1, 2015 and January 1, 2016, I went from having zero followers on Instagram to 150,000 followers. In that same time period:My email list grew from less than 5000 subscribers to 100,000...
View ArticleMindful Business: Coming Soon to a Business Near You
Running business today requires different skills than say, running a business 20 years ago. As the consciousness of the planet is shifting running a successful and profitable business too must shift....
View ArticleAre Activists Good or Bad for Investors? Author Jeff Gramm on His New Book,...
In the interest of General Motors, you are going to have to stop treating me as a problem and accept me as --A large stockholder --An active board member --An experienced businessman The author of that...
View ArticleWomen in Business Q&A: Leslie McNamara, Managing Director of Partner...
Leslie McNamaraLeslie McNamara is Managing Director of Partner Management for Citi Retail Services, one of North America's largest and most experienced retail credit solutions providers. In her role,...
View ArticleFor-Profit College Recruiter Hides Behind McDonalds Arches
A website displaying McDonalds' famed golden arches and promising jobs at the fast-food empire quickly pushes visitors instead to recruiters at for-profit colleges, including those owned by two of the...
View ArticleThe Secretary of State's Award for Corporate Excellence: Doing Well and Doing...
Over the past few years, I have traveled nearly 300,000 miles across 35 countries and 60 cities as part of my role leading the State Department's Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs. I have met...
View ArticleIgnore Advice to "Do Something"
Photo courtesy of Flickr. Almost every day I get an email from a concerned investor. Their litany of worries includes the terrible start to the year, market uncertainty, geopolitical risk and concern...
View ArticleGlobal Risks and Short Trades
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View Article7 Deadly Sins of Entrepreneurs
If you're an entrepreneur, no matter how successful you might be, chances are you've made some mistakes. Some of those mistakes are recoverable, and some aren't. What ultimately matters is how you...
View ArticleWhy The Heck Are Small Business Owners So Optimistic? The Reason May Surprise...
Wow, there seems to be a lot of optimistic small business owners out there. Don't believe me? Just look at the numbers. -Two-thirds of the 600 small business owners surveyed by Wells Fargo said their...
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