- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from TechCrunch » StartupsLast summer, Pinterest acquired a visual discovery site called Icebergs, and today that team is showing off what it’s been up to, having since relocated from Spain to San Francisco. While over the past several months, Pintere...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Inc.com
Office conversations don't need to feel like life-or-death situations, but you can learn a lot about how to stay cool on the job from hostage negotiators. - Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Inc.com
Here are four ways your company, like Vodaphone, can reap the benefits when you implement a generous parental leave policy. - Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Small BusinessCNBC's Kate Rogers reports McD's pay hike does not impact franchisees which McDonald's does not considered joint employers.
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Small Business Trends | small business experts
Sponsored Post Social media has made communicating with customers much easier. It has also made it easier for customers to communicate with businesses. But not all of those customer interactions are positive ones. Customers often use soc... - Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Inc.com
McDonald's is the latest big employer to raise worker wages, after Wal-Mart and Target. But small companies are also feeling the effects of the minimum wage increases sweeping the nation. - Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Inc.com
And guess what? Talent may not be necessary. - Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Small Business Trends | small business experts
One woman’s desire to fulfill a personal passion also ended up helping her start a successful business. Payal Kadakia just wanted to dance. But thanks to her high-powered consulting job with Bain & Company, making it to regular... - Thursday, April 2, 2015 from eWeek - Small Business - RSS FeedAutonet Mobile currently provides connected car services to Chrysler Fiat Automobiles, General Motors, Maserati, Subaru and other auto brands.
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from TechCrunch » StartupsSome consolidation in the dog sitting/walking/boarding space. The UK’s myDogBuddy, which offers a marketplace that connects dog owners with local dog sitters, has merged with its Spanish rival Bibulu, to become what it claims...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from StartUp Beat
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from BizSugar Hot TopicsBecoming a professional is the dream of many new bloggers. There are some steps and suggestions that you can follow that may help you reach the success online. Of course during the life of your blog, you can learn a lot from your experie...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from YFS Magazine - Startups, Small Business News and Entrepreneurial CultureOne month you’re on a high, celebrating an amazing month in business (e.g. you hit your financial targets) and then you get busy working with clients and spiral down into an unexpected low because you realize you don’t have any new leads.
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from The Crowdfund Network
In February, I went to Washington D.C. to watch The Washington Ballet’s ‘Sleepy Hollow’ premiere edition at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. I ... The post Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman in Ballet: ‘... - Thursday, April 2, 2015 from TechCrunch » StartupsYou might not have heard of Hudl, but it’s how 100,000 sports teams spent $30 million last year to review game tape on mobile. Hudl never raised institutional funding since starting in 2006, but it’s quietly amassed 1 b...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from YFS Magazine - Startups, Small Business News and Entrepreneurial CultureDelegation is an essential leadership skill. Delegating to a remote workforce is especially challenging. Here are 4 valuable tips to help you delegate smarter.
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Crowdfund InsiderSmart toy and technology developer Elemental Path, creator of CogniToys, the first toys powered by IBM Watson, has surpassed its Kickstarter goal by 550 percent. Launched on February 16th, the campaign raised $275,000 and received suppor...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from FoxSmallBusinessCenter.comOrders to U.S. factories rose in February, breaking a six-month losing streak.
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from FoxSmallBusinessCenter.comMattel, the maker of Barbie dolls and Hot Wheels cars, named Christopher Sinclair as its permanent CEO.
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Inc.com
Happy employees share certain habits and behaviors, and these habits help them stay happy. Here are 7 of the most important ones. - Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Small business news - CNNMoney.comHealth drink Mati Energy beats out all tech rivals at Google Demo Day, scoring $100K investment from Steve Case
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from FoxSmallBusinessCenter.comCalifornia Gov. Jerry Brown ordered the first mandatory, statewide water cutbacks by cities and towns as the state's nearly 40 million people head into a fourth summer of severe drought.
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Inc.com
Bowing to the pressure from labor organizers and an improving economy, McDonald's raises its entry-level wage. What that means for you. - Thursday, April 2, 2015 from TechCrunch » StartupsNearly two years ago, MavenSay pivoted focus away from its main personal recommendations app to something a bit more musical in the form of Rithm. Rithm is a standalone app that lets users send each other music-based messages, with...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Crowdfund InsiderRegulation has provided the injection the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) industry needed to take off, according to RateSetter CEO, Rhydian Lewis. As the P2P platform celebrates almost £122 million in loans during Q1 and a year as “number one,&...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Small BusinessAs McDonald's plans a pay raise for 10 percent of its U.S. restaurants, will the move extend to its individually-owned franchises?
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Hershey's John Bilbrey is joining the board at the confectioner four years after he was named CEO.
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Crowdfund InsiderCodie, a startup with the mission to teach children the principles of coding, launched its crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to produce toy robots that make learning coding tangible, real and fun. Co-founder and CEO of Codie, Adam Lipec...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from TechCrunch » StartupsAlmost one year ago, Google released its diversity data, kicking off a wide-ranging industry conversation about why tech companies and venture capital firms are so unrepresentative of the racial and gender make-up of the rest of th...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Guardian Small Business Network | The GuardianLaurence Kemball-Cook, founder of the company Pavegen, reflects on the Guardian Small Business Trade Mission to Atlanta, Georgia. The five-day trip was designed to help ten UK small businesses break into the US market. Kemball-Cook says:...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Small Business Trends | small business experts
Pay-per-click (PPC) advertising can be extremely powerful for small businesses because it allows you to put your product or service in front of a potential client at the exact moment they’re searching for a solution to their proble... - Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Inc.com
With access to broad distribution channels, it's easier than ever to create and distribute great content. - Thursday, April 2, 2015 from eWeek - Small Business - RSS FeedThe Data Center Development Model is built for organizations that are looking to understand the requirements of building a future-state data center.
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Crowdfund InsiderWith nearly a week until their Con Man crowdfunding campaign comes to an end on Indiegogo, FireFly co-stars, Alan Tudyk and Nathan Fillion has successfully raised nearly $2.7 million for their new television show. Now, the fan favorite d...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from FoxSmallBusinessCenter.comUnited Technologies Corp. has announced a change in leadership at Sikorsky Aircraft, less than a month after announcing it may spin off the helicopter-making subsidiary.
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Inc.com
Marshall Goldsmith, bestselling author and leadership consultant, says to be wary of environments that fail to provide negative feedback. - Thursday, April 2, 2015 from VC News Daily feedLINCOLN, NE, Sports video analysis platform, today announced $72.5 million in funding.
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from TechCrunch » StartupsFor women struggling to conceive, in vitro fertilization can be a successful, but also fairly expensive, option. At approximately $15,000 per cycle, and requiring two cycles on average before it works, it’s still beyond the r...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Inc.com
A new investment strategy shows how power has shifted to entrepreneurs - Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Small Biz DailyBy Eldonna Lewis-Fernandez While even the word “negotiation” can evoke fear, stress and anxiety for many, the intent is quite simple: to discuss and ultimately agree on a deal. Whether it’s a multimillion dollar contract or just decidin...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Crowdfund InsiderCAN Capital, a player in alternative small business finance, announced today that it secured a $650 million credit facility from a dozen leading lenders. Led by Wells Fargo Capital Finance, the transaction includes new commitments from M...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from FoxSmallBusinessCenter.comThe state Supreme Court has upheld a court order barring a Wyoming ranch from operating as a youth facility after it took in delinquent boys without a state license.
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Crowdfund InsiderSnapPower announced that just 24 hours after debuting the SnapPower Charger campaign on the crowdfunding giant Kickstarter, the project has raised more than $350,000 from more than 8,500 backers, 10 times the company’s goal of $35,000. T...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from SmallBusinessNewzDecisions need a filter
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from FoxSmallBusinessCenter.comI get too many letters from desperate franchise buyers who feel like they were snookered and say 'I wish I had known better.' Learn from these mistakes.
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from FoxSmallBusinessCenter.comThe stubborn drought gripping California is dragging into a fourth year, prompting Gov. Jerry Brown this week to call for mandatory cutbacks in water use across the state.
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from BizSugar Hot TopicsProducing content without a strategy is like planning a trip without a map. And creating a content marketing strategy without basing it on real user data is like using a map of Tolkien's Middle Earth to plan a trip across Europe. 17 Vote(s)
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from TechCrunch » StartupsUber‘s growth has taken the company into many categories of transportation, from simple car services for individuals through to courier deliveries. Now, a startup out of New York called Via has raised $27 million to take Uber...
- Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Inc.com
I say no to a lot of great founders that I want to - and do - keep in touch with.
