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Feed SubscriptionWhy ‘Big Data’ Is a Big Deal
In a world generating and storing tons of data every day, business owners need to learn how to harness it to get an edge.
Read More »8 Signs of an Extraordinary Boss
The best managers have a fundamentally different understanding of workplace, company, and team dynamics. See what they get right
Read More »The Commodity-Pricing Trap
Norm Brodsky advises on how to avoid the race to the bottom. Dear Norm, My partner and I have a business that rents photo booths for weddings, parties, and corporate events. My partner has developed software that uses blue-screen technology to create thousands of different backgrounds for the photos, which adds a whole new level of fun
Read More »Marketing Road Map: 9 Essential Steps
How to spread the word when you're new to an industry, don't have a big budget, and have few people to help you do it. If you're like many start-up founders I know, you’re on a limited budget , have limited manpower, and you're working in an industry that's new to you.
Read More »Does Your Company Need Social Media?
A lot of CEOs tell me their B2B companies just don't need social media. Here's why they are dead wrong. I have been doing a lot of speaking engagements lately before CEOs of business-to-business (or "B2B") companies
Read More »The Freelancer/ Independent Consultant/ Work-From-Homer’s Guide To Tax Write-Offs
Those who do contracting on the side, work from home, or do their own freelance thing have to watch every dime that goes out. Here's a few dimes you can catch
Read More »Khan Academy Enters Next Era With iPad App
Offline learning is the latest tool for the unorthodox education organization. Here's how that and other new features will power Khan Academy's new app. Khan Academy , the wildly popular YouTube lecture series, is slated to launch its iPad app any minute now in Apple's store
Read More »What the JOBS Act Really Does for You
It will help more start-ups get out of the gate, but after that it's going to be messy. Yesterday the House passed the Jumpstart our Business Start-ups (or JOBS) Act, in a rare demonstration of bipartisan good feeling. The bill’s wide support (it passed 390 to 23) indicates just how well-loved start-ups are now in the popular imagination
Read More »6 Gen Y Rules for Older Workers
Stop judging & start listening: Senior execs can learn something valuable from their youngest employees. This is part of a 2-part series.
Read More »6 Gen Y Rules for Older Workers
Stop judging & start listening: Senior execs can learn something valuable from their youngest employees. This is part of a 2-part series. Read the companion post: 8 Old-School Rules for Gen Y
Read More »Avoid the Biggest Leadership Mistakes: 4 Tips
Most leadership mistakes start with the leader's own sense of identity -- or lack thereof. How to keep your flaws from sabotaging your leadership
Read More »Detroit’s Education Edge
(Yes, really.) For a start-up boom, a city needs an explosion of tech talent. Nicole Carter breaks down Detroit's entrepreneurial education system
Read More »Lessons From a Sales Guru
Here are 6 quick nuggets of wisdom from sales guru Harvey Mackay.
Read More »Fast Talk: Why Fashion Designers Need To Embrace Their Inner Geek
Meet Jean Paul Cauvin, a French fashion veteran and self-proclaimed non-geek who nonetheless saw the need to follow fashion's technological future.
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