Why It’s (Sometimes) Good to Fire Your Employees
Author: Richard Agu / Source: Entrepreneur Employee behavior has always been a source of frustration for managers, and it’s led to important works like Fredrick Winston Taylor’s four principles of management and Douglas McGregor’s Theory X and Theory Y. But...
Why Being Clueless Can Be a Great Thing
Author: Aytekin Tank / Source: Entrepreneur We entrepreneurs can be clueless at times, and that is okay. In February, I interviewed candidates for the first sales position at my company, JotForm. I have never been a salesperson, and I have never worked with...
Why This Successful Company Completely Changed Its Offerings — and How It Made It Work
Author: Ben Liu / Source: Entrepreneur In 2012, Pocket Gems was thriving as a leading mobile game developer. We had found early success as the creator of the casual simulation category with Tap Zoo and Tap Pet Hotel, and had continued to grow over the years...
Hey Juicero, Erlich Bachman Just Called and Wants to Invest
Author: Gene Marks / Source: Entrepreneur If you're a fan of HBO's Silicon Valley then I'm sure you're looking forward to the season four premiere on Sunday night. I know I am. The show centers around a fictional tech company called Pied Piper located in --...
New Change In Google AdWords Impacts Businesses
Author: Rocco Baldassarre / Source: Entrepreneur A big recent change to Google AdWords will dramatically change the way you optimize your campaigns. Specifically, the change is impacting view-through conversions (VTC). This may seem like an overly technical...
5 Smart Ways Entrepreneurs Can Spot Promising Potential Hires
Author: Kc Agu / Source: Entrepreneur You'll often hear others complain about how much money they make -- how their income is not enough to pay for their expenses. Most of the time, they are not wrong. That is why many people work multiple jobs to try to...
Q&A app Quora valued around $1.8 billion in $85 million fundraise
Author: Josh Constine / Source: TechCrunch Quora just became the unicorn of subjective human knowledge. After eight years carefully cultivating an ntelligent question and answer community, it’s just raised an $85 million Series D round co-led by...
Another Persian Gulf oil producer considers public offering
Source: RT International Sultan Qaboos bin Said, the head of state of Oman © Ahmed Jadallah / Reuters Oman's state-owned energy producer Oman Oil is thinking about selling some of its assets and listing on the local stock market. This follows the planned initial...
As Mideast looks past oil, spotlight shines on entrepreneurs
Author: Associated Press / Source: Fox News In this Wednesday, April 5, 2017, photo, a woman writes a note on a board during the opening day of Step 2017 Conference and Music in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. A mobile app to track school buses, Arabic cooking...
Women’s tech conferences: Don’t ask about work-life balance
Author: Erin Carson / Source: CNET When Nancy Lublin and Caterina Fake, both CEOs of tech startups, agreed to speak at Vanity Fair's Founders Fair, they made a deal. If the moderator asked them about how they balance home life and work life, they'd walk off...
Netmarble to Raise $2.3 Billion After Pricing IPO at the Top
Author: Sam Kim / Source: Bloomberg.com A successful IPO would be South Korea’s biggest since 2010 Korean game publisher’s titles include Lineage 2 Revolution Netmarble Games Corp. will raise as much as $2.3 billion after pricing its initial public offering...
S Chand announces initial public offering
Author: Rahul Kumar / Source: www.printweek.in Delhi-based S Chand, one of the leading publishers of educational books in India, has announced that the company is going to launch its initial public offering (IPO) on 26 April 2017. The offer will be available...
How to Customize Your Facebook News Feed to Maximize Productivity
Author: Alfred Lua / Source: Entrepreneur Facebook is still the leading platform for marketers. From our State of Social Media 2016 report, we found that 93 percent of marketers are actively using Facebook for their business. As social media marketers, we...
Here’s How People Really Feel About Flying Cars
Author: Rose Leadem / Source: Entrepreneur Self-driving cars aren't on roads yet, but does that mean we can't talk about flying cars? Although flying cars have long been in popular culture (think The Jetsons), we’ve yet to see one acting hit the … air....
After IPO, Cadence execs ring in new era on NYSE
Author: Andrea Rumbaugh / Source: Houston Chronicle For Houston's newest public bank, timing was everything. Cadence Bancorporation executives were forced to table their initial public offering for more than two years as they waited for oil prices to...
5 Things I Learned About Business From an Asian Monastery
Author: Smadar Landau / Source: Entrepreneur Unlike most startup founders and players in Silicon Valley, I didn’t learn about managing a business from other entrepreneurs, my gut or a self-help book. Born and raised in Israel, I completed my nation's...
6 Cryptocurrencies You Should Know About (and None of Them Are Bitcoin)
Author: Matthew Toren / Source: Entrepreneur In the 21st century, money is no longer limited to bills, coins and credit cards. In fact, some money is truly international -- not owned by any particular government -- and regulated “by the people” instead of a...
Startup Honored as Winner of First-Ever ‘HackON’ Competition
Author: Entrepreneur Media Corporate Communications / Source: Entrepreneur TULSA—The J.M. & H.C. Hall Store. Frisco Depot. Tulsa House Hotel. Reed & Perryman Store and Post Office. Jeff Archer Store. The year was 1882 and these were the very first business...