Sometimes, luck wins. “How to be successful” returns 843 million results on Google. “I will teach you to be rich” is an actual website. And we can’t go a day without seeing how four habits will make us successful, or seven things the most successful people are always doing, or, from the astonishingly loquacious and […]
The Internet of Things (IoT) helps drive a reliable mode of interaction with customers, providing real-time insights to help streamline operations and make for greater personalization in the consumer experience. As a result, understanding the IoT is crucial for retailers, entrepreneurs, and business owners. While the usefulness of connected devices is nothing new in and
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When I sit down with new startup founders, most ask me about one thing: raising money. This is smart of them because, as I’ve stated previously, fundraising needs to be one of the core competencies of any young company. Yet for the many high-level conversations I’ve enjoyed on the subject with young entrepreneurs, rarely do
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Marketing is a game of mirrors. Unless you’re familiar with the unspoken rules of the Internet, it can be very easy to mistake “industry experts” for people who know how to manipulate other people’s lack of knowledge. In fact, it has gotten to the point where I really struggle calling myself a “marketer” because of
“Yeah, but.” That’s the enemy of innovation. Right? We’ve all be told that we need to stop uttering those words and replace them with “Yes, and.” But what if “yeah, but” is not the problem. What if there is something more insidious–and less obvious? A bigger enemy of innovation is, “Wow, this is a great
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On days like this predictions abound. And most often those predictions come from the pundits, the ones “in the know.” But what if the real power of prediction is not in the opinions and the bias of pundits but in the data? One the most amazing things about the internet is its ability to quickly
A self-funded startup in San Jose, California has been quietly building a blockchain-based travel ecosystem for the past 3 years and is finally readying itself to launch. Its name is XcelTrip and it is branding itself as the first Decentralized Travel Ecosystem (DTE) in existence. The problem that XcelTrip primarily seeks to solve is the existence of
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You know you have it on you. After all, without your smartphone, you couldn’t do normal things we all do (you know, like breathing, apparently). But to every yin there is a yang, and now one phone could help you break your smartphone dependence for good. Brooklyn-based startup Light is smack in the middle of
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This year as stars accept their statues at the Oscars, you won’t see Houdini, but know that it’s there. SideFX, a 30-year-old Toronto- and Los Angeles-based technology development company, won two Academy Awards this year for its computer graphics tool Houdini, which is used by the film and video gaming industry. Hollywood can be fickle, and tech companies are constantly
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It was 2016 and Snapchat was at the height of its power. After slowly climbing its way up the social media ladder, the app had successfully dominated the mass market. Everyone — from my kids to the White House — was addicted to the little yellow ghost. But then something happened that signaled the beginning
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