We’re in the midst of the giving season. Soon it’ll be Thanksgiving. Your final tax payment will be sent to the IRS. You’ll be spreading holiday cheer and bonuses with your team members. How what about giving back to your community? Having a giving plan is important for all businesses – whether you’re volunteering time, […]

Funding your startup is one of the most important and challenging tasks you will face as a founder. If you are creative, there are many options to fund your startup. None of the options is perfect and each one brings certain pros and cons to you and your startup. I cannot definitively tell you which […]

One of the easiest things you can do is plan out what you’re going to do “when you’re ready.” You’ll start freelancing, you think, when you’ve acquired enough skills at your day job. You’ll learn a new skill when you’ve sufficiently conquered all of the prerequisite skills that build up to it. You’ll apply for […]

Mario Ferro found his calling converting talent into social impact. His startup, Wedu, selects outstanding young women in Asian countries and provides them with generous education loans. The Italian entrepreneur, who is based in New York and Thailand, developed an eye for talent after scouring the world for “Rising Stars.” He used that eye to […]

Working in the tech startup space means that you have to be willing to take advice. Granted, some of it isn’t going to be that great, and it’s important to take everything with a grain of salt. But every once in a while, someone will drop a truth bomb on you that will completely change […]

Tanya Prive, who is the co-founder of one of fastest growing crowdfunding platforms for startups, very kindly agreed to meet to chat about her path to starting Onevest. The vivacious entrepreneur, who launched Onevest in New York with her husband and co-founder Alejandro Cremades, four years ago, believes that every early stage startup should be […]

I’ve barely been awake for 20-minutes and I’ve already been bombarded with an updated Twitter newsfeed of 140-character mind-regurgitations from no less than 200 people. Unlike these never-ending distractions disguised as information, there’s another type of information that business-owners unequivocally consider a strategic asset, dubbed “business intelligence”– business data resulting from testing, surveys and all […]

Meetings are the worst, right? The back-and-forth scheduling, prep time beforehand, and following up afterward are almost more trouble than they’re worth. At least they used to be. Luckily, some amazingly simple (and free!) tools will transform the way you think about meetings and give you hours of your life back every week. Your Scheduling […]