Be Prepared for the Startup J-Curve
When you’re starting out as a small-business owner, you don’t always know what to expect. Especially when it comes to your own growth. There’s a common myth regarding the progress…
The Obvious Mistake Most Startups Know Not to Make (But Still Make Anyway)
How many business books does an aspiring entrepreneur have to read before they learn that Rome wasn’t built in a day? Or a week. Or even a year. Rome became Rome by…
The Money Metric You Might Not Know — But Should
Paul Graham, founder of the accelerator Y-Combinator, coined a term every startup should know: default dead. It is a pretty simple concept. Assume that your expenses and revenue growth remain…
Why Few Data Centers Are Fully Optimized
Very few tech executives feel that their IT operations are running at an “optimized” level, according to a recent survey from Datalink. The resulting report, titled “Data Centers in Flux:…
Focus Is the Secret Weapon of the Business Sharpshooter
You’re running 20 minutes early this morning, Starbuck’s coffee in hand; it’s going to be a good day. You’re feeling motivated and ready to get the ball rolling, having every…
Where Your IT Dollars Are Headed In 2017
The responses align with IDC’s predictions that IT spending on cloud infrastructure — servers, enterprise storage, and Ethernet switches for the enterprise private cloud and colocation services —…
Moore’s Law Is Ending for Cloud tech
Cloud suppliers won’t be able to bank the gains of Moore’s Law much longer and will have to eke out advances elsewhere. The cloud is currently an assembly of…
21 Ways to Be a Better Leader
It doesn’t matter if you are running a business, managing a team, or teaching a class–leadership skills are important. Some people seem to be born knowing what to do toinspire…
Where Will Your Business Be When the Music Stops?
I’ve always loved the game “musical chairs.” You know, that game where a group of kids is circling a cluster of chairs, and everyone has to find a seat when…
How the Innovation in the IoT Will Boost Our Economy
When people think about the Internet of Things (IoT) in relation to the economy, they generally fall into one of two camps. One side of things looks the IoT and…
How AI Can Improve Searching for Data
As the Information Age unfolds and the volume and variety of data explodes, it’s clear that organizations must put data to work more effectively. At times, it’s amazing how…
Smart Cities Can Get More Out Of IoT, Gartner Finds
While many smart cities are using IoT for transportation issues, there’s a host of other initiatives these urban centers should start to address with the technology. Environmental and sustainability…
5 Ways Leaders Must Evolve Business and Reinvent Industries for the 21st Century
Today’s leaders must have more intimate knowledge of the business, design workplace cultures, and build teams that are focused on continuously evolving with the end-game in mind. To do…
How to Sell Your Company Without Selling Your Soul
Selling your company is a career highlight for many entrepreneurs. It signifies success. You’re one of the lucky few instead of the many walking dead. It often provides you financial…
Bold, New Ecommerce Businesses Are the Ones Holding Sway in the Online Marketplace
The global ecommerce market is on pace to sell more than $22 trillion in products by the time 2016 comes to a close. Even though annual growth rates are set to slow…
Why Employee Engagement Programs Backfire and What You Can Do About It
In recent years, employee engagement programs have become part of business leaders’ efforts to improve morale in many organizations. The thought is that by paying for you to take part…
If 80 Percent of Success Is Showing Up Then 20 Percent Is Following up
Woody Allen once said that 80 percent of success in life is just showing up. Now granted, Woody Allen also defended dating his adopted daughter by saying, “The heart wants what it…
How Lucrative Startups Can Avoid Disruption as They Grow
In his popular TED Talk filmed earlier this year, Adam Grant–New York Times best-selling author of Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World–leads with a shocking admission. “Seven years ago, a…
7 Signs Your Startup Is Focused on Stuff That Doesn’t Matter
7 Signs Your Startup Is Focused on Stuff That Doesn’t Matter A CEO unloads on entrepreneurs who are more interested in “playing startup” than actually building a business. Startups are…
How to Create an Innovative Business Model?
by Gijs van Wulfen Do you dream big about entering a huge market and overthrow the incumbents with an innovative business model, like Uber or AirBnB? Or, as innovation professional…