Steal These Four Secrets To Sell Like A Pro


“I can help you if you want my help. Do you?” – Paul Lemberg, author, speaker and Fortune 100 business coach I met Paul Lemberg, world-class business coach, and Rhonda Anderson, sales analyst, at...
    






We Need Entrepreneurs Who Can Drive Global Change


By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. Yet...
    






Brad Jefferson’s Animoto Uses AI to Create Inexpensive, Professional Videos for You or Your Small Business


A Series of Forbes Insights Profiles of Thought Leaders Changing the Business Lanscape: Brad Jefferson, Co-Founder and CEO, Animoto… “We’re trying to make it easy to create beautiful and emotionally...
    






Lessons from Zuckerberg and Bloomberg: As Giving Goes Up, Philanthropy Under Fire


The report by The Chronicle of Philanthropy that the top ten philanthropic gifts in the year past totaled $3.4 billion, and that there were more gifts of $100 million or more in 2013 (15), than in...
    






What Every Leader Must Know About Personal Development


Man is a mystery. If you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out do not say that you’ve wasted your time. I occupy myself with this mystery because I want to be a man. - Fyodor Dostoevsky...
    






5 Goals I’m Setting For My Business In 2014


We’re all guilty of it. We set our resolutions on the 31st of December, jazzed to make progress in our personal and professional lives, and then, by the middle of January, we’re bored. Our goals,...
    






Will Financiers Help London’s Quest To Be The World’s Favourite New Technology Center?


The idea of London becoming a technology center to rival other parts of the world has gained a lot of momentum in the last 12 months. From around 200 firms in early 2010 the city now boasts around...
    






Lessons From Vanderbilt And Rockefeller: Know Your "One Big Thing"


With all of the media coverage about Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos, it’s easy to forget that many of the gutsiest moves in business history happened long before Bill Gates...
    






The Best Startup Advice From 14 Tech Heroes


Some say that people do not really want advice, even when they ask for it — but when starting a company, good advice early on can be the difference between success and failure. For this reason, it...
    






Hubris: A Startup’s Worst Mistake


The following guest post is by Frederic Kerrest, co-founder and COO of Okta. Many startups experienced successful exits in 2013. Others crumbled to the ground. A common cause for those failures?...