With all its downsides, social media has proven to be a life-changing medium. While there are seemingly countless examples of how social networks have sparked romances and friendships, I’ve found that the impact social media leaves on your career isn’t given enough attention. My story alone isn’t too wild: My past two roles are tied […]

The number of startups trying to solve problems with innovative technology is growing rapidly. With that growth, we’ve seen more technology accelerators looking to help those entrepreneurs by providing education, guidance and investment capital in exchange for a stake in their companies. It’s important to note that there are many different types of tech accelerators […]

You have an amazing idea! Now, all you need to do now is turn it into a reality and customers will be lining up. Right? Well…if you plan to spend months developing and perfecting, what happens when the “final” product is built, and no one is in the queue? To prevent loss of time, money […]

The question of whether software should be patentable stirs up strong feelings in the tech community, on both the pro and con sides, a divide that also extends to the law, which has struggled for almost 50 years to provide concrete guidance on how software should be treated by patent law, if at all. An […]

Building a startup is hard. Always. And building a startup when you’re not based within an existing tech or startup ecosystem like Silicon Valley, New York, London or Berlin, then the task at hand is ultimately so much harder. Paul Graham seems to agree: We wouldn’t be doing founders a favor by letting them stay […]

Offering your prospects options can help you win business—but only if you know the right way to do it. A great example of the difference between the wrong way and the right way to offer choice comes from a graphic designer friend of mine named Bridget. Bridget, who was new to freelancing, got introduced to […]

If you build a better mousetrap, the world will beat a path to your door. But if you introduce antiseptics to the medical community before The Germ Theory of Disease is discovered, then the world might fire you and drive you insane. That’s literally what happened to Ignaz Semmelweis, the Hungarian physician who made the […]

Hej. Bon jour. Ni hao. Namaste. Howdy. As you’ve no doubt noticed as the holiday approach and we discover neighboring cultures, as the web grows the world gets smaller. In the business world today it’s not uncommon for startups to have an international presence – often with 100% of their market outside the “home” country. […]