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Too much of our planning for growth these days is predicated on incremental improvements: brand extensions, product re-sizing, territorial expansions and the like. These are attempts to capture market share...

Can you explain what your company stands for in just a few words? Can you quickly sum up how you and your teammates work together, and what it's like to...

After selling my startup, the first big "purchase" I made was an investment in another startup. I loved the idea of angel investing; I wanted to give back to the...

The tuna fish sandwich has a bad odor these days. A slow decline in sales of canned tuna became a free fall in 2004, the same year the FDA and...

Women's complaints of sexism in the office may fall on deaf ears. After all, according to many workplace surveys, women are doing better than they ever have. The U.S. Department...

You've been hard at work all day on your startup; chatting with investors and developing a marketing campaign. You finally have a couple minutes to yourself and decide to log...

In late October 2013, Buffer suffered a major security breach. As a startup of 8 people at the time, I'll admit, security wasn't a top priority on our minds. Our...

I started writing computer code when I was in high school in a special program at the Illinois Institute of Technology. This was in the early 1960s, long before there...