Work life

The startup lifestyle can be grueling. If you’re not careful, it can take a serious toll on your physical and mental health. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a CTO, a programmer, or work in a nontechnical capacity; everyone needs a startup survival strategy to help them maintain their work-life balance as they learn to juggle […]

Engineering is hard and creativity doesn’t happen on-demand. Developing a great product takes great minds. At TapSense we recognize that the best, most talented people do not excel by simply staring at their screen for eight hours a day. Talented people do great work in a collaborative environment, one that accepts that each employee is […]

The bi-annual adjustment of whatever Facebook is currently calling its Edgerank algorithm has become a standard business practice that all social media marketers anticipate. The most recent set of changes, issued last month, will again affect all brands, but will prove to be a challenge for small to medium businesses above all others. The blog […]

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 […]

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 […]

We’ve already laid out our arguments for why everyone should write, but once the inspiration hits, how do you keep it going? Below are 7 apps to help you put the proverbial pen to paper. Think Help Me Write: For many, the worst aspect of writing is getting started — when you’re sitting there staring […]

Our friends at the YEC asked 11 entrepreneurs to share what they look for first in a salesperson. Here’s what they found: A hunter’s mentality We want someone who is going to get excited about “the big fish” — someone who will prepare endlessly and wade through a lot of information, contacts and leads in order to […]

Recently, I was asked to be a panelist for a webinar about using the power of publicity to achieve your goals. The participants asked great questions. The first: “How do you step into the spotlight when you don’t like the spotlight?” Getting media attention and speaking engagements — the spotlight — goes right to the […]

Unlike in the Field of Dreams, “if you build it, they will come” certainly does not pertain to gaining initial traction for your startup. If anything, the complete opposite is true– you need to work insanely hard just to start acquiring your first few customers or followers, and then work even harder to grow those […]

As the CEO of a New York City-based startup, Shodogg, I know that managing the moving parts of an early-stage company is challenging and often times hectic. Here are the six things I do every week to maintain efficiency, balance and sanity in our offices. Communicate with Your Employees Being the CEO of a startup […]

Recently, Twitter announced its new Tailored Audiences tool, which allows marketers to target ads directly to people who fit a relevant audience category through their web browsing activity. This tool includes retargeting to a brand’s website visitors as well as using specific audiences from third party data. The availability of Tailored Audiences to all marketers […]

A new year brings with it the promise of a fresh start. As 2014 nears, why not take a moment to reflect on the lessons learned from the past year, and move forward with a new focus on success. With that in mind, here are a few tips to help keep small businesses focused on […]

When Andrew Kessler went on a promotional tour for his first book, Martian Summer, which documents his three month stint in mission control for NASA’s Phoenix Mars mission in 2009, he experienced how difficult it was to attract people to an event. This struggle led him to found his own company, Togather: a tool for smarter […]

Hello. My name is Chris, and I’m an email addict. Email addiction is taking a serious toll on both our personal lives and work productivity. Long gone are the days of handwritten letters, snail mail and faxes. Why use those outdated practices when you can simply type a message from anywhere and instantly send it to anyone in the […]

Less than a year ago, Chris Poole launched DrawQuest in hopes of convincing the average person to take up drawing. His somewhat lofty vision is that everyone should draw, because creativity shouldn’t be something you only embrace at age four with finger paints. That vision — encouraging those who’ve lost their creativity to go off […]