There are plenty of corporate-ready tools for communication and collaboration out there, but you may be able to improve the way your employees collaborate just by using social networks they’re already familiar with.
Small Business
What Makes Employees Want to Stay
If you’ve gone through the effort to hire the right people for the job, you want them to stay. So what makes employees want to stick around?
Polishing Your Elevator Pitch
Making your sales point quickly and effectively is a critical skill for any entrepreneur.
How to Get Funding and Keep Control of Your Company
It’s one of an entrepreneur’s worst nightmares: You get the funding that’s going to propel you to the big time from venture capital or another source, but you wind up giving up so much of your company in return that you lose control of it.
Lyft: Ride Sharing Startup Zimride Hits the Gas Pedal in San Francisco
Using technology to attack structural inefficiencies in the market for automobile transportation.
8 Ways Washington Could Really Help Small Business
Politicians of both parties claim to support small business–but if that’s so, here’s what they should really do.
Where to Find Your Next Big Idea
Companies large and small are always searching for the product or idea that will become The Next Big Thing, but inspiration may be closer than you think.
Signs You May Be a Cowardly Leader
Is cowardice the worst characteristic a leader can have?
Phone is My Copilot: Startup Zoetic Uses Smartphones to Make Drivers Smarter
Driver fatigue accounts for tens of thousands of crashes a year, and millions of drivers admit to dozing being the wheel on a regular basis. Still others are simply oblivious of their bad driving habits. They brake too hard, …
Creating a Pay-Per-Click Advertising Campaign
If you’re thinking about a pay-per-click or search advertising campaign, selecting the right keywords is the most important part.
How to Recharge Your Leadership in Trying Times
It’s been a tough five years for the economy and anyone associated with it. The worst recession and bear market since the 1930s. Shrinking nest eggs. Mass layoffs. Chronic unemployment and underemployment. And those lucky enough to have jobs can find themselves burdened by fear of job loss and the pressure to “do more with less.”
Secrets from the World’s Happiest Workplace
Icelanders are more than twice as happy as Americans. Here’s what your business can learn from them.