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When women succeed, we all succeed; but more innovation and investments are needed It was entirely appropriate that the Treasury Department held its 6th annual Women in Finance & Technology...
View ArticleThe Oilman Who Loved Dictators
Or How Texaco Supported FascismCross-posted with TomDispatch.com[This piece has been adapted from Adam Hochschild's new book, Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War,...
View ArticleTo Create Successful Business Mix Equal Parts Risk and Positivity
Behind every successful business is a great idea. But, as we've learned over and over again, every great idea will not become a successful business. And, there is almost no way to predict whether or...
View ArticleWomen-Owned Businesses Increase, But Not Their Bottom Line
Dollar Photo Club According to savvy marketing firms and the government, women-owned businesses are on the rise. The 2012 U.S. Census states that women own 9.9 million companies in the U.S. That's...
View ArticleIs Fear Interfering With Corporate Climate Action?
By Suzanne Shelton, CEO and co-founder, Shelton GroupLast month, I attended the annual GreenBiz 16 conference and the Edison Electric Institute Strategic Issues Roundtable. One conference was for...
View ArticleKnow Your Why
"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how." - Friedrich Nietzsche In a moving video talk, comedian Michael Jr. describes the power of knowing your "why." In it, he showed an audience a clip...
View ArticleWhat Millennial Entrepreneurs Will Build
This article originally appeared on Entrepreneur. Here at Venture for America, we recruit and train aspiring millennial entrepreneurs who want to learn how to build businesses. Our goals are to help...
View ArticleMore Content Equals More Opportunity
By Francois Lee, EVP Investment Director, AssemblyI can’t recall a time when deciding what to watch on TV was so challenging. Should I catch up on the last three episodes of Better Call Saul? Start...
View ArticleThe Seven Deadly Sins of Social Media
Some sins are forgivable and others are fun, but when it comes to your platforms, not cleaning up your act could lead to sitting in an unproductive purgatory while others steal your little slice of...
View Article15 Surprising Things You Can Buy From Amazon
By Cameron Huddleston, Columnist When Amazon launched in 1995, it sold only books. Now the largest online retailer sells millions of products. In fact, you might wonder if there's anything Amazon...
View Article10 Tiny Homes You Can Actually Afford
By Cameron Huddleston, Columnist Tiny homes aren't for everyone. It takes a certain type of person to want live in just 100 to 400 square feet. But, it's the small size that's part of the appeal of...
View Article10 Best Online Banks of 2016
By Cameron Huddleston, Columnist Online banks also offer many perks, and GOBankingRates has analyzed the top national online banks as part of its Best Banks of 2016 study. After evaluating dozens of...
View Article10 Best and Worst Deals at CVS and Rite Aid
By Terence Loose, Contributor It's no secret that drugstore giants Rite Aid and CVS are in constant competition for your business -- from each other and from other competitors like Walmart, Walgreen's...
View ArticleFools or Liars On the Trans-Pacific Partnership?
Given the recent flood of opeds and editorials on the wonders of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the Obama administration must be about to present the deal to Congress for approval. Otherwise,...
View ArticleSuccess Reloaded: Wake Up!
by Stelio Verzera You are alive. You didn't ask to exist, and yet here you are, breathing and thinking. Now, what do you stand for? What do you long and strive for? We exist at many levels. There is...
View Article7 Entrepreneurs Share Their Most Valuable Lessons
When I graduated from business school, my goal was to land a high-paying corporate job, and most of my peers wanted the same thing. For better or for worse, most of us did. As I wrote in my book...
View ArticleChoosing Challenge
Denver native Taletha Fitzpatrick describes herself as a problem-solver who "keeps moving forward" no matter what. After graduating from the Aerospace Physics program at Metropolitan State University...
View ArticleWhy The Cultures of Your Clients And Partners Matter
By Shane Atchison, CEO, POSSIBLE and Jason Burby, President, POSSIBLE AmericasThere is a story about a small advertising agency in Los Angeles that was surprised to win a huge bid for a major...
View ArticleGreen Logistics
By Michael Quirke, Senior Strategist, Brand UnionWith last week’s news that Amazon is opening a new fulfilment centre in Manchester, creating around 1000 jobs, thoughts have been whirring about how...
View ArticleTuesday Terror - Belgium's Brussels Bombing Breaks Bulls Backs
This is not the way we want to be right. There was bound to be something that caused a sell-off. On Friday, we noted the massively overbought conditions that led us to bumping up our SDS hedges and...
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