Philippe Matthews Show Guru Advice, Author Reviews, Tech Reviews, Entertainment News

The secret to a successful start-up?

I used to live in fear of walking into the office and hearing "Our server crashed." No more. Not sure if you should be running your own network or hiring someone else to deal with it? Not sure what to make of all this talk about ‘moving your business to the cloud’

Believe it or not, at one point we actually fed our pets real food. That was, until people-food companies realized they could maximize their resources by mashing together all of their scrap meat, leftover grains, eggshells, and bones, injecting some vitamins, and cooking it up into “kibble.”

In this extended version of the talk from our new issue , we speak with Tom Conrad, the CTO and Executive VP of Product at Pandora. Why does it take so much input from so many sources for the company to build perfect playlists

At age 27, Danny Meyer abandoned plans to go to law school and decided to open Union Square Cafe in New York City--a decision about which New York City's food lovers are eternally grateful. In the 25 years since, Meyer has opened 28 restaurants and--incredibly, given the cutthroat nature of the New York restaurant scene, where restaurants open and close more frequently than subway doors--he has only shut one down. Meyer's Union Square Cafe, Eleven Madison Park, and Gramercy Tavern consistently appear on most major New York top restaurant lists.

How host dinners and white knuckles add up to big business wins, just like a football game. As the NFL playoffs gear up and college football winds down, I'm constantly amazed at how much very small things can have an impact over the course of the game

It's time to stop selling what you do, or make. Instead, start selling why you do it.

You can have a vision for the culture of your company but ultimately you have to let go and see what happens. Some time ago we set out to create one of the greatest places to work in America.

The makers of an Oscar-nominated short film app weigh in on managing uber-creative employees, running a studio like a start-up, and why CEOs should take more business trips. Moonbot Studios, a digital animation and development company based in Shreveport, Louisiana, describes itself as "an interplanetary creative expedition of story and art." If that sounds vague—even a bit nebulous—that's because its founders like to keep thing fluid

A healthy, fit workforce can yield better teamwork, smarter decisions, & higher productivity. Use these ideas to take the first step

Your prospective customers are busy people. Use these 3 quick tips to get them to respond to you.

That might be a good thing. Here's why.

Working from home requires a new mindset and a good system, not just a nicer pair of pants (but put those on, too).

We thought we'd save money by acting as our own leasing agent.

We thought we'd save money by acting as our own leasing agent. That's how we learned--the hard way--what realtors really do. A good commercial realtor is worth his or her weight in gold