In the age of same day delivery and drones replacing drivers, up-and-coming entrepreneurs face significant competition when entering into eCommerce. Yet in 2014, technological innovation in the area of social media has allowed smaller eCommerce brands to breakthrough. Smaller eCommerce brands have been able to succeed despite competing against industry dominators Amazon and Ebay. For […]

Surprise, It’s Not Only About The Price! Corporations are holding record levels of cash, interest rates are low and the housing market is rebounding. The result? Merger and acquisitions professionals are buying more businesses and high-end homes are selling faster — Silicon Valley had a 26 percent increase in sales of $1.5 million-and-up houses in […]

Car Sharing Economy No, this isn’t a Prius commercial. I couldn’t care less about fuel economy or battery gigawatts. This is about sharing. Truck Sharing For my 16th birthday I got a 1998 Chevrolet S10. It was white with an extended bed and a Cricket camper top. I got a truck to a) transport music equipment […]

It appears that nearly every human is fed up with email (us included), and services attempting to solve the problem continue to emerge. All the while, however, newsletters remain a driving force for countless companies, including the likes of Thrillist, Daily Candy and Refinery29. In addition, email is the most common online activity of US adults, […]

Teamwork is great and all, but sometimes, you just have to be selfish. The nature of most startup teams is tight knit. You stick together through thick and thin – through long hours, late nights, frustrating fails, and stale pizza. You encourage each other, brainstorm together, and talk about the polar vortex ‘til you’re blue […]

The smile, eye contact, and handshake are way underrated in the business world. I can track at least $1 million in new business revenue directly back to “humanity.” My first entrepreneurial venture launched ten years ago after my long career with big brands (Citibank, MasterCard, Reed Exhibitions) and I left the corporate world with NO […]

Our friends at the YEC asked 11 entrepreneurs to share their best tips for writing a great, memorable keynote speech. Here’s what they found: Don’t Write a Speech “The best way to really motivate an audience is to connect with them, and the best way to connect with an audience is by not reading a printed piece […]

The desire to be engaged in purposeful, fulfilling activity is universal. Maslow classified it as a basic need in his “self actualization” rung of the pyramid. Aristotle called it eudemonia, or human flourishing: “the soul acting in accordance with virtue.” Csikszentmihalyi proffers two concepts: good work — in which one “enjoys doing [one’s] best while […]