Don’t let impostor syndrome hold you back
When Major Hayden started at cloud services company Rackspace, he was an “entry-level Linux tech,” who would answer help desk tickets and resolve issues. Then after a series of moves…
Google IoT service checks box years after AWS, Azure
Google jumped into the IoT competition, but it’s got ground to make up to be a truly viable option for enterprises. Currently in private beta, Google Cloud IoT is a…
Not investing in cybersecurity has ‘inverse ROI’
If the cyberattacks that infected computers in more than 150 countries this month did anything good, they have shown organizations the world over what not keeping systems up to date…
Innovation is the Most Potent Form of Leadership Development
by Innovation is the most potent form of leadership development. You can’t outsource the important things. After working with more than 100 clients, we have noted one of the most…
Next? How to Convert Emerging Tech into Next Practices
To appreciate the full breadth of possibility created by emerging technologies is to feel like a kid in a candy store. Our candy store is overflowing with brain-exploding and exciting…
What Dubai Gets Right About Innovation
by Jeffrey Phillips I’ve just returned from a trip to Dubai to speak at an innovation conference there. This is my third trip to Dubai, and I come away consistently…
The Future Of Robots
by Greg Satell When the first industrial robot, Unimate, appeared on a General Motors assembly line in 1961, it was a modern marvel. The job it performed, transporting die-castings and welding them…
Going Global Cheaper: Ways to Reduce Cost Abroad
by Melissa Burns It’s safe to say that growing your business takes more than time and passion; it also requires a sizeable amount of capital to get it going. This can…
Here’s What You Need To Know To Do Business In Europe In 2018
Have you heard of the GDPR? It’s a new privacy law in the European Union designed to protect the privacy of EU citizens. The catch? It covers them no matter…
How Facebook Employee No. 30 Turned Being Fired Into 2 Multimillion-Dollar Businesses of His Own
Noah Kagan knows from failure. The author of How I Lost 170 Million Dollars: My Time as #30 at Facebook (Lioncrest, 2014) explained why he was fired from the social network…
7 Things You Can do Today to Regain Your Motivation at Work
About 10 years ago, I almost walked away from the business I’d been building for my entire adult life. It was on the heels of a bad hire; a COO…
4 Reasons Why You Never Want to Behave Like Volkswagen’s Leaders
As the scandal at Volkswagen unfolded late in 2015, I wrote an article in January 2016, titled, “Volkswagen–What Might Have Caused the Emissions Scandal?” where I hypothesized as to what…
How to Nail the Most Important Job in Your Company
In my guidance to startups raising capital, two of the most important financial metrics to nearly all VCs are customer acquisition cost (CAC) and Lifetime Value (LTV) of a customer.…
Does Your Saudi Business Make Over $100,000 Annually? Prepare To Pay VAT
Saudi Arabia’s General Authority for Zakat and Tax has asked private sector establishments with annual revenues of over SAR375,000 (around $100,000) to pay monthly VAT starting January 2018. The mandate…
Compareit4me Raises $3.5 million To Tap Into The Gulf’s Insurance Opportunity
Middle East-focused financial products comparison website compareit4me.com has secured $3.5 million in its latest round of funding from existing investors including Wamda Capital, STC Ventures, Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority and Saned…
Dubai’ Biggest Bank gets Into The E-commerce Business
UAE’s largest lender Emirates NBD has launched SkyShopper, an online platform, as it seeks to capitalize on the growing e-commerce market in the UAE. The SkyShopper platform will enable the…
Digital Marketplace Startup Gets Fresh Funds To Tap Egypt’s Ed-tech Opportunity
Cairo Angels has invested an undisclosed amount in Egypt-based ed-tech startup Orcas. Orcas, which was formerly known as Cairo Sitters, is a digital marketplace. The startup was established in 2011…
Mark Zuckerberg Reveals the 5 Strategies That Helped Facebook Grow at an Insane Rate
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…
5 Components of Bootstrapping a Business
Apply now to be an Entrepreneur 360™ company. Let us tell the world your success story. Get Started » I love the idea of bootstrapping a business, and it’s how…
6 Ways to Build a Billion-Dollar Sales Machine
Apply now to be an Entrepreneur 360™ company. Let us tell the world your success story. Get Started » When did your CEO last ride a snowmobile on a volcano,…