Make the most of travel time during the holiday season
Q: What is one strategy for making the most of your travel time during the holiday season? A: Plug in, then shut down. "Utilize some of the down time (especially...
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How to improve your startup valuation
For business owners, startup valuation is a topic that causes lots of angst, raises tons of questions and definitely gets the emotions blazing. But let's take a step back. Why...
Success at home helps empower women in Africa
In 1989 my husband and I started a professional hair care company with very modest beginnings, hand-filling bottles in our basement on a shoestring budget. It was not our goal...
10 tips for empowering your team daily
Ever since selling my first company, I've thought a lot about what I could have done to make it more successful. Some people might think that selling a company for...
How two brothers cooked up a $4 million bacon business
Brothers Shannon and Erik Duffy started their pork products company, Tender Belly, when both were out of work; Shannon was a building-supply salesman and Erik a trained chef. What they...
The healthy uncomfortable
I am quite possibly the world's biggest fan of being comfortable. The word, to me, conjures up an image of a big comfy couch, a roaring fireplace, and maybe a...
Use lessons from technology innovation to build change elsewhere
When he won the Nobel Prize for his work on laser technology, Charles Townes said, "It's like the beaver told the rabbit as they stared at the Hoover Dam. 'No,...
Zipcar cofounder Robin Chase on the problems with the sharing economy
Robin Chase, who co-founded Zipcar in 2000, has since started French car-sharing service Buzzcar, online ridesharing service GoLoco, and vehicular Wi-Fi provider Veniam. Q. How do you carve up responsibility...
In defense of millennials, the entrepreneur generation
Millennials are narcissistic. They are the "me-me-me" generation. Their helicopter parents hovered over them and turned them into helpless and entitled children, giving them generic awards for sports and activities...
Watson, IBM’s big-data program, is also a startup incubator
When IBM rolled out its artificial intelligence system, Watson, it also welcomed entrepreneurs to help it monetize the revolutionary technology. A key com-ponent to Watson is its cognitive capability —...