Acquisitions Can Help You Scale, but Come With Risks
Apply now to be an Entrepreneur 360™ company. Let us tell the world your success story. Get Started » Editor’s Note: In the new podcast Masters of Scale, LinkedIn co-founder…
How This Founder Sticks to Her Principles and Stays Open Minded at the Same Time
Apply now to be an Entrepreneur 360™ company. Let us tell the world your success story. Get Started » After decades working in the healthcare industry, Ilaina Edison identified an…
3 Ways Selling Less Helps Your Business Grow More
Apply now to be an Entrepreneur 360™ company. Let us tell the world your success story. Get Started » In the 1950s, my grandparents built an addition on their home,…
Amazon Is Buying Whole Foods for a Whopping $13.7 Billion — Is It a Good Deal?
Apply now to be an Entrepreneur 360™ company. Let us tell the world your success story. Get Started » Amazon announced on Friday that it is acquiring grocery store chain…
5 Steps to Finding Stability as a Freelancer
Apply now to be an Entrepreneur 360™ company. Let us tell the world your success story. Get Started » If you’ve ever worked as a freelancer, you know all about…
Top 5 Personality Traits Investors Look for in an Entrepreneur
Apply now to be an Entrepreneur 360™ company. Let us tell the world your success story. Get Started » People often ask me what kind of personality traits successful entrepreneurs…
Corporate Venture Capital Can Be a Blessing or a Curse. Here’s What Every Entrepreneur Should Consider.
Apply now to be an Entrepreneur 360™ company. Let us tell the world your success story. Get Started » Considering corporate investment for your company? If so, you’re not alone.…
2 Practical Ways to Build the Mental Toughness You Need in Business — and in Life.
Apply now to be an Entrepreneur 360™ company. Let us tell the world your success story. Get Started » If I had to pick just one quality and characteristic I…
Why Entrepreneurs Should Aim to Fail — That’s Right. They Should Actively Seek It.
Here’s a viewpoint that might cause you to do a double take: Actively seeking rejection means you’re learning, adapting and getting that much closer to your destination. Related: 4 Ways To Push Through…
Question to Leadership: If you had to list 3 qualities…
by Jeff Freedman Recently, we held our first town hall meeting at Small Army. Rather than doing the typical quarterly update where our leadership team shares what we believe the team would be most…
Go Out and Find a Problem Worth Solving
by Braden Kelley Interview with Greg Satell I had the opportunity recently to interview fellow Innovation author Greg Satell to talk with him about his new book Mapping Innovation, which…
Innovation – Everything You Need to Know in 12 Quotes
by Tom Koulopoulos Tweetable wisdom about the right and wrong ways to go about #innovating. There are hundreds of books on innovation; millions of words promising to help you create…
A Major Saudi Retailer Is Getting Into The Grocery-On-Demand App Business
Saudi Arabia-based hypermarket and supermarket chain Danube plans to launch a grocery e-commerce app that will employ up to 1,000 people in the kingdom. The e-commerce platform is expected to…
A Dubai-based Salon & Spa Booking Startup With Global Goals Has Raised Fresh Funds
Dubai-based booking platform for salons and spas Shedul.com raised $6 million in a Series A funding round. The funding was led by Dubai-based Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP), while Dubai-based…
Food Tech Is Still Hot In Egypt As Elmenus Raises A Cool $1.5 Million
Egyptian food discovery platform Elmenus has raised $1.5 million in its Series A funding round from Algebra Ventures, Egypt’s largest venture capital fund. Elmenus, which was founded by Amir Allam,…
Are Saudi Private Businesses Finally Waking Up To The Benefits Of Having Women In The Workplace?
While the leaders of the GCC launched themselves into a diplomatic cataclysm of epic proportions this week, and it seems our region is now firmly in the grips of political…
Why Micro Income Streams Are Better Than One Big Payday
It’s probably not a surprise that entrepreneurs experience more anxiety than their employee counterparts. A Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index found that 45% of entrepreneurs said they were stressed out, 3 percentage…
Coca-Cola Just Dumped Coke Zero and Replaced It With a Revolution (Well, Maybe)
Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek. I can’t even remember that last time I tasted Coke. It’s…
Instagram’s Billionaire CEO Does This for 60 Minutes Every Single Morning
I’ve got a bone to pick with Kevin Systrom. He created one of the Internet’s most powerful procrastination drugs. He’s Instagram’s CEO and co-founder. Instagram is to blame every time…
13 Ways You’re Sabotaging Your Startup Before You Start It
In a previous post, I explained that investors are now, or will soon be, using big data–including browsing and purchasing history–to decide whether you’re worth betting on. I asked the…