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Small Business Owners Say the Future Looks Bright
Small business owners are putting less on the line, but feel more optimistic about the future. Are they seeing through rose colored glasses?Small business owners say things are looking up, according to the latest Citibank Small Business Pulse survey. This year's query of 750 respondents revealed only 14 percent feel ...
Twitter Acquires Discovery Start-Up Spindle
The start-up acquisition madness continues, this time with Twitter buying Spindle, a location-focused social discovery engine.Yahoo isn't the only tech giant going on a shopping spree this summer. Twitter announced Wednesday it acquired social discovery start-up Spindle. Twitter will shut down the service and Spindle's team will relocate to San ...
Tesla's Recall: Now This Is How You Do PR
A recall is never good news for a car company. But founder Elon Musk has handled the situation with smooth moves.On Tuesday night, electric car manufacturer Tesla announced it is recalling a slew of Model S sedans manufactured between May 10 and June 8. The cause, according to a blog ...
Forget Words: Visuals Seal the Deal
Sometimes, words are not enough. Rather than talking in circles around your client, use visuals to recapture their attention.There is an old saying that a picture is worth one thousand words. Most people consider sight to be the most important of their five senses--so it seems logical that visual aids ...
Oops: Big Data Baffles Most Marketers
Now more than ever before businesses have tons of data on what customers want. Too bad they don't have a clue what to do with it.Compiling massive sets of data and analyzing them--so-called big data--was supposed to be a boon for business. (And a PR nightmare for the NSA.) But ...
Are You a 'Small Business Person' or an Entrepreneur?
There's a big difference between somebody who runs a business and a true entrepreneur. Three factors to help you tell the difference.A few years ago, I went on a date with a girl I'd met online. She was nice, but there was no romantic chemistry, and our talk turned to ...
Q&A: Should I freeze my credit to prevent identity theft?
Like many people, I’m concerned about protecting my financial information from online thieves who want to steal my identity. Identity theft is not a random occurrence; 12.6 million Americans were victimized by ID theft in 2012, the second-highest total since the Federal Trade Commission began counting victims in 2003. Slightly ...
Why Good Enough Is Good Enough
Users don't want to go through training, read a manual, or figure out your jargon. They want to get going.I recently spent some time with the very talented and thoughtful team at Pathful. They are developing analytical tools to help non-technical website owners determine which parts of their sites are ...
This week in deals: 50% off all featured styles at Cosabella
Summer is now in full swing! The kids are home, the weather is warm and the parties don't (won't) stop. If you're in the same boat as I am, life isn't so bad. I have 6 more parties to go to between June and July, so it's definitely time to ...
Josh Kopelman on Funding the Next Wave of Start-Ups
With his Dorm Room Fund, the serial entrepreneur is putting more cash in the hands of college start-ups--and that's a good thing.By his sophomore year of college, Josh Kopelman was a full-fledged entrepreneur. Not that his alma mater--the University of Pennsylvania--understood him. "When I graduated they sent around this form," ...
Buy the Small Business That's Right For You
There are many types of small business opportunities available to ambitious buyers. Here's how to choose the business that is right for you.There are tens of thousands of small businesses available in today's business-for-sale marketplace, representing dozens of industries and a multitude of market sectors. But not every type of ...
Leaders Think Big Using Big Data
These five elements of big data analytics will help you make the smartest decisions for your business.In today's hypercompetitive, real-time marketplace, where customers demand personalized solutions to their specific wants and needs, CMOs need a bird's-eye perspective to leverage their resources. And savvy leaders who know how to align departments ...
How Big Data Can Make or Break Your Odds of Getting a Loan
One lender uses sophisticated algorithms--and any online dirt it can find about your company--to determine credit risk.The amount of stored digital information that companies, researchers, and others can mine is growing exponentially and is nearly impossible to fathom. In the book Big Data: A Revolution That Will Change How We ...
What I Would -- and Did -- Say to new Grads
We all need to reinvent ourselves regularly. Here's how I suggest new grads--or anyone--go about it.On May 23, I had the honor of delivering the convocation keynote at my alma mater, San Jose State University, for the Department of Journalism and Mass Communications. Unlike most graduation speeches, mine wasn’t esoteric ...
VC to Entrepreneurs: Just Be Yourself
Of course you put your best foot forward when courting investment. But there are good reasons to be a bit more transparent, too.I suppose it’s only natural for an entrepreneur to be a little nervous before meeting with a potential backer for his or her company. But the result of ...
In a Bad Mood? Tackle a Creative Task
A new study suggests that negative emotion may actually be a pretty good launching pad for creativity.Creativity is mysterious and difficult. If you have tasks on your to-do list that require a creative spark, perhaps you’ve been putting them off, waiting to get in a mellow mood or for inspiration ...
9 Ways to Not Be a Bosshole
Bossholes drive away talented employees and cost your company money.A bosshole is a combination of a boss and, well, an anal sphincter. Bossholes are workplace bullies who yell at the drop of a hat and generally make their employees feel tired, lousy, and unappreciated.For entrepreneurs, the primary danger is that ...
Cheaper Internet coming for rural areas
Look up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's … Google's Project Loon?! Google is testing solar-powered hot air balloons in New Zealand that can beam high-speed Internet to rural areas, bypassing wires and bypassing the ground. This project is the latest from the super-secret Google X ...
Early inspiration for luxury perfumer: First lady Michelle Obama
SAN DIEGO (MainStreet) — When luxury perfumer Seth Kornegay thinks of first lady Michelle Obama, the adjectives that come to mind include strength, grace and courage.Using those attributes as inspiration, Kornegay developed “Orla,” his newly launched luxury perfume in honor of the iconic first lady.READ: How to get into business ...
Tips to guarantee a better job interview
NEW YORK (MainStreet) — Here’s a scary statistic for younger career professionals, especially college graduates embarking on their first serious job search: According to a study by Demos, 5.6 million Americans between the ages of 18 and 34 are “shut out” of the employment market.Here’s the real scary part: That ...
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