BuzzFeed Said to Prepare for a 2018 IPO
Author: Lucinda Shen / Source: Fortune Ticker symbol "BUZZ" may have a home on the stock market next year. Media startup BuzzFeed, known for its quizzes and viral content, is preparing for an initial public offering some time in 2018, according to a report...
LiveSmart, a London-based employee health platform, raises £700,000
Author: Steve O'Hear / Source: TechCrunch LiveSmart, a London-based startup that offers a platform to help employees track and improve their health, has raises £700,000 in funding. Investors include Matt Merrick (formerly the Managing Director of Virgin...
Tobi Lütke: Snowboarder, Programmer, and Shopify’s Unlikely CEO
Author: Brian Withers / Source: The Motley Fool Tobi Lütke Source: Shopify.com Tobi Lütke loves snowboarding and programming. When he wanted to start an e-commerce business to sell snowboarding equipment, he found there was no good software to help get his...
6 Tips to Combat Time Poverty
Author: Brian Tracy / Source: Entrepreneur In this video, Entrepreneur Network partner Brian Tracy discusses how time management techniques that can really make a difference in your daily life. Most people think they are too busy to stop and actually educate...
Don’t Let Your Best Employees Get Away With Causing Drama
Author: Bryan Elliott / Source: Entrepreneur In this video, Entrepreneur Network partner Bryan Elliott sits down with Rebel Mouse CEO and founder Paul Berry to talk about the mistakes he made when starting his business, how to avoid them in the future and...
Entrepreneurship Is Not About Problem Solving
Author: BizCast / Source: Entrepreneur Tastytrade was founded in 2011 and currently produces eight hours of live, original programming each weekday to provide financial information, investment strategies and entertainment related to options trading and the...
What Makes a Good Brand Ambassador for Your Business
Author: Jill Schiefelbein / Source: Entrepreneur This video is part of a series brought to you by Entrepreneur’s book division, Entrepreneur Press, the publisher of Jill Schiefelbein’s book Dynamic Communication: 27 Strategies to Grow, Lead, & Manage Your...
3 Scientifically-Proven Ways to Spot Liars in Your Emails
Author: Linda Lacina / Source: Entrepreneur Here’s a scary number: Social psychology expert Jerald Jellison estimates that we are lied to as many as 200 times per day. That isn’t all by email, of course, but plenty of it may be -- and even the smallest false...
The Best Cities for Entrepreneurs — and How You Can Make the Most of Yours
Author: Entrepreneur Staff / Source: Entrepreneur These cities make growth happen. Did your city make the list? If you have an online business and zero employees and are happy to travel 24-7, then your physical address doesn’t matter much. Everyone else? “No...
U.K. Claims Its New Pound Is the ‘Most Secure’ Coin in the World
Author: Rose Leadem / Source: Entrepreneur The U.K. pound has gotten a makeover. But it's not because the country thought it needed a new look -- the one pound coin got a revamp to combat counterfeits. The Royal Mint claims it's the “most secure” coin in the...
Tax on Saudi Aramco Oil Profits Is Cut to Prepare for I.P.O.
Author: CLIFFORD KRAUSS / Source: New York Times Saudi Arabia announced a sharp tax cut for its state oil company on Monday, part of an effort to make it more appealing to international investors in preparation for its promised initial public offering. The...
A Startup’s Plan To Cut Air Freight Costs In Half With 777-Size Drones
Author: Daniel Terdiman / Source: Fast Company Commercial passenger jets fly at an altitude of around 30,000 feet or higher. Imagine sitting in a window seat of one of those giant aluminum tubes a few years from now as it makes its way across the Pacific...
What Entrepreneurs Need to Know About the Fed’s Rate Rise
Author: Ryan Himmel / Source: Entrepreneur Citing strong economic progress, the Federal Reserve’s decision to raise rates for the second time since the financial crisis of 2008 has business owners asking when they’ll see banks tack the increase onto capital...
London’s social impact accelerator BGV plans seed fund
Author: Natasha Lomas / Source: TechCrunch London-based ‘social impact’ accelerator, Bethnal Green Ventures, which backs pre-seed startups with ideas for using tech to tackle social and/or environmental problems, has taken £1.3 million in funding from three...
How two Seattle women are fighting for data-driven solutions to startup diversity issues
Author: Clare McGrane / Source: GeekWire Martha Burwell, one of the Catalyze Seattle organizers. (Photo via Martha Burwell) We’ve seen the numbers on diversity in startups, and they’re not good. Less than one-fifth of startups that receive funding are led by...
Spotify acquires content recommendation startup MightyTV
Author: Ingrid Lunden / Source: TechCrunch Spotify this morning announced its latest move to expand its marketing and advertising horizons: it has acquired and shut down content recommendation service MightyTV, a startup that (as its name implies) focused on...
Arable raises $4.25 million to demystify farming with sensors and data
Author: Lora Kolodny / Source: TechCrunch Arable has raised $4.25 million for solar-powered sensors and software to help farmers produce more food with fewer resources, and more accurately predict their yields. Middleland Capital and S2G Ventures led the...
6 Startups Solving First World Problems
Author: Nanalyze / Source: Nanalyze If you’re not familiar with first world problems, they’re things that we consider “problems” that most people wouldn’t. When we say “most people”, what we are referring to are the 38% of the people living on this planet...