Entrepreneurs

It can't be about salary—so what do you do? In the beginning stages of your business, you can't always offer competitive salaries. So as you're trying to get off the ground, you have to find other ways to structure your business so that early-stage employees...

Is your company or industry being disrupted by current technology and market place developments? Maybe, maybe not. Determining what’s noise and what’s a signal is crucial. Overreact and you may send your company off course. Do too little and you could put your company at...

Nearly 20 years ago, the launch of online payments giant PayPal shook the financial services industry. Now, a new generation of financial technology or “fintech” companies is once again breaking down the oversized doors of the conservative banking business. From facilitating loans to wealth...

It may be a hassle, but in a crowded field, it’s necessary. Hardware and software innovation has touched innumerable areas of modern life, but none perhaps as personal as medical technology. For the companies and rising startups hoping to redefine how we care for ourselves, innovation...

The hardest decision you'll ever make is to move on; before you do answer these 5 questions. As entrepreneurs we believe in our ability to build the future more than anyone else possibly could. In our mind there is never any doubt that what we are...

SAN FRANCISCO — As stock markets have tumbled, public company shareholders were not the only ones wondering what would become of their portfolios. Venture capitalists also began fretting about whether the plunge — which resulted last week in the worst week for American stocks since...

Researchers at MIT have just unveiled the ability to 3-D-print beautiful glass objects. While humanity has been forming, blowing and molding glass objects for more than 4,500 years, this is the first time that a 3-D printer has been used to process glass from a...

When it comes to space exploration, one of the greatest pain points is the sheer cost of transporting cargo and astronauts into space, which by one estimate is $50 million a pop. Getting into space is the easy part, it’s the cost that holds people...

The world is filled with threats to your success, but the greatest of these is much closer to home than you might think. I've worked with hundreds of entrepreneurs, startups, and small businesses during my career, and in all of those interactions one thing is...