Netflix’s long-time product chief Neil Hunt resigns
Author: Jonathan Vanian / Source: VentureBeat An eighteen-year Netflix veteran is leaving the company. The video streaming company said this week that its chief product officer Neil Hunt will step down in July. Greg Peters, who has been with Netflix for nine...
MakeVR lets you design 3D-printable objects in VR
Author: Dean Takahashi / Source: VentureBeat Virtual reality has become a great place to make things, and MakeVR is one of the apps that makes it possible. The VR app debuted recently on the HTC Vive VR headset, and it brings a greater degree of precision to...
Facebook now lets you watch Messenger Day stories on Messenger.com
Author: Ken Yeung / Source: VentureBeat Last month, Facebook continued its rollout of Snapchat’s stories feature across its properties, adding it to Messenger. But while many paid attention to its addition to the iOS and Android apps, the social media...
4 Tips for a Successful Content Strategy
Author: Phillip Thune / Source: Entrepreneur Many businesses, especially small businesses, struggle to keep their content marketing strategy on track. With constantly changing trends in social media, influencer marketing and other media, it can be hard just...
Challenge for startups to get Series C & beyond funding: Kris Gopalakrishnan
Source: Moneycontrol.com Securing series C and beyond funding is a challenge for startups, Information Technology veteran Kris Gopalakrishnan said as he called for a simple, orderly and fast-track mechanism to shut failed businesses. The startups scenario in India is...
Startup Showcase: This is not your grandfather’s golf shirt
Author: Leah Kodner / Source: Twin Cities A 2016 article in Forbes entitled “The State of the Golf Industry in 2016” notes that golf is gaining popularity among the younger generation, with 6.3 million millennials playing golf annually. Matt Stang noticed...
New Study Reveals That ‘Night Owls’ May Have a Special Genetic Variant
Author: Rose Leadem / Source: Entrepreneur Do you identify as a night owl? You may be a mutant. Researchers at Rockefeller University in New York discovered that the tendency to stay up late may in fact be due to a gene mutation. The gene, “CRY1,” which...
6 Proofreading Tips to Create a Mistake-Free Resume
Author: Sarah Landrum / Source: Entrepreneur Your resume is one of the first impressions a hiring manager will have when you apply to a new job or position. As one of the few materials a hiring manager will get when determining whether to call you for an...
4 Ways Artificial Intelligence Boosts Workforce Productivity
Author: Taher Behbehani / Source: Entrepreneur Eighty-four percent of businesses see the use of artificial intelligence (AI) as “essential” to competitiveness, while half view the technology as “transformative,” according to Tata Consultancy Services' Global...
3 Reasons Why IT Security Must Be a Top Concern for Tech Startups
Author: Ralph Tkatchuk / Source: Entrepreneur Web and mobile apps are now a dime a dozen as more ventures join the rush to roll out the next killer app. According to AppBrain, there are nearly 2.8 million apps on the Android market to date. Search for a...
4 Ways to Overcome the Unique Challenges a Low Unemployment Rate Poses
Author: Tony Delmercado / Source: Entrepreneur Joblessness is at its lowest point since the Great Recession of 2008, according to U.S. News & World Report. Trading Economics indicated that in January 2017, the U.S. unemployment rate stood at 4.8 percent....
The Art of the Follow-Up
Author: George Deeb / Source: Entrepreneur Given how important good selling techniques are to driving revenues, I am shocked how many entrepreneurs and salespeople are just bad at working their leads. This includes things like not following up on leads (or...
Make Wellness Travel a Staple in Company Trips for Happy, Productive Employees
Author: Tony Tie / Source: Entrepreneur The world has become obsessed with the pursuit of wellness, and the travel industry is far from immune. In fact, wellness travel is one of the fastest-growing tourism industries today, with predictions that it will...
2 Entrepreneurs Describe Their Worst Business Moments — and How They Overcame Them
Author: Jason Saltzman / Source: Entrepreneur On this episode of Resilience, Entrepreneur Network partner Jason Saltzman sits down with John Hui of Triage and JP Benini of Elemental Path to talk about testing projects, all the work that goes into a completed...
Boulder company specializes in helping marijuana-related startups get off the ground
Author: Kurt Sevits / Source: 7NEWS Copyright Getty Images BOULDER, Colo. – Venture funds and business accelerators are nothing new, but in Boulder, there’s a company that’s investing millions of dollars specifically to help startups in the legal marijuana...
Challenge for startups to get funding: Kris Gopalakrishnan Infosys co-founder
Source: http://www.hindustantimes.com/ Kris Gopalakrishnan, Infosys co-founder and angel investor(Livemint) Securing series C and beyond funding is a challenge for start-ups, information technology veteran and Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan said as he called...
2 Singapore-based startups raise US$20m in Series A funding
Author: Jacquelyn Cheok / Source: AsiaOne Acknowledging the crowded online property search space, 99.co chief Darius Cheung said that a key differentiator is technology. While his company - best known for its proprietary map-based search engine - is not...
Breaking Down Spotify’s Potential Non-IPO: Why Would the Company Roll the Dice on a Direct Listing?
Author: Dan Rys / Source: Billboard FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Noam Galai/WireImage News that the company is mulling a direct listing rather than an IPO spurred plenty of confusion. How could it all shake out? On Thursday, the Wall Street Journal reported...