You know what kind of meeting it’s going to be when they bust out the PowerPoint presentation. Someone Read More
Haiku Deck raises $3M to kill PowerPoint
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How to Double Your Company’s Growth Every Year
By Farhan Thawar, VP of Engineering, Xtreme Labs Managing a fast-growing company can be a rewarding and daunting Read More
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How to Double Your Company’s Growth Every Year
By Farhan Thawar, VP of Engineering, Xtreme Labs Managing a fast-growing company can be a rewarding and Read More
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Yelp posts mixed results, loses $19.1M in 2012
I have good news and bad news. The good news is that Yelp topped Wall Street’s expectations by Read More
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Lessons learned in a company turnaround
Very few CEOs walk into a new company faced with the challenges inherent in a turnaround situation. Generally, Read More
At Wednesday night’s Vator Splash NY, we had a pretty rockin’ panel that featured angel investor Deborah Jackson, Read More
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The network effect isn’t good enough….
Note: I’m pleased to have co-authored this post with Sangeet Paul Choudary, who analyzes business models for network businesses at Platformed.info. Follow Read More
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Care.com’s Sheila Marcelo on women, business & funding
Our third Vator Splash NY is coming up on December 5, and we’re honored to have Care.com CEO Read More
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NYC tech businesses struggling to resume post-Sandy
Hurricane Sandy might be over, but she (it’s a girl hurricane) has left a trail of destruction in Read More
Sometimes I’m a little embarrassed to be a tech writer while still clinging to some of my low-tech Read More
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How Sports Infects Your Brain
How Sports Infect Your Brain by Nir Eyal in Users Note: I co-authored this post with Andrew Martin and David Ngo. It originally Read More
Smarterer.com, a site devoted to administering tests and rating the skills of job-seekers, announced Tuesday that it has Read More
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Tablet annual growth to reach 50%; 760M sold by 2016
People around the world snapped up 56 million tablets last year — and it looks like that is Read More
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Eight cheap ways to market your small business
Famed author Mark Twain said, “Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of Read More
The days of middle-aged caucasian males running American businesses are behind us. Today, it takes talent from around Read More