How to Reassure Your Team when it Takes a Hit Four tips for reinstilling confidence in your team. If you have plans to grow your small business into a larger venture, it’s inevitable that you’ll hit a few bumps in the road along the way. It could be the loss of a major client or supplier. Maybe a […]
Young Startup Needs the Wisdom of Elders When it comes to your leadership team, it’s time to mix it up. In 2013, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky called serial entrepreneur Chip Conley with an unusual request: Would he join their company as a strategic advisor on the hospitality industry? What made the offer noteworthy is Conley, then 53, was a generation […]
Are Company Retreats Good for Productivity? Small business owners can improve productivity by investing in a company retreat. Simply getting away from the stressful atmosphere of the workplace can do a world of good. Your employees can work only so hard before cracking. A company retreat allows them to regroup and rediscover their passion for […]
A woman displays ‘Siri‘, voice-activated assistant technology, on an Apple iPhone 4S in Taipei on July 30, 2012. Taiwan’s National Cheng Kung University has filed a suit against US tech giant Apple, claiming the company’s Siri intelligent assistant has infringed on two of its patents. AFP PHOTO / Mandy CHENG (Photo credit should read Mandy Cheng/AFP/GettyImages)2012 […]
5 Ways This Entrepreneur Bootstrapped His Own Businesses to Success A lack of funding is one of the reasons businesses fail–serial entrepreneur Donny Zanger says bootstrapping your startup is the key to success. One of the challenges every entrepreneur faces is funding the business–both at startup, and in growth mode. Every business eats cash, and you’ve got to have […]
