Girlboss CEO Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved Want to be an entrepreneur or are you already one? The data below shows just how increasingly popular the career move is becoming. Whether you crave freedom, creating your own way of delivering outcomes or filling in a gap in the market, the entrepreneurial road […]

The Apprentice candidates Ryan-Mark Parsons and Thomas Skinner dressed up on task. BBC/Boundless The Apprentice Episode 8: The Task The teams have to host a corporate away day onboard the iconic Belmond British Pullman Train.  The candidates will have to lay on food, drink and entertainment while securing a good ticket price from the corporate […]

Getting PR at CES takes a ton of work, but the ROI is worth it. Photo by Evangeline Shaw on Unsplash What exactly does it take to get PR at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the biggest tech show in the world, and an incredible opportunity for generating buzz about your brand?  Well, here’s a […]

Thousand Fell sneakers Thousand Fell Sustainability has become the most buzzed terms in the fashion industry. For many, it is a trend that appeals to millennials and Gen Z-ers who are more discerning with their purchases, who are looking for items that will inflict less harm on the environment. It is a big business that […]

This week’s massive Salesforce-sponsored Dreamforce event has the customer support industry abuzz with product announcements. (Yes, if you’re wondering why you can’t find a room at even the sketchiest hotel in San Francisco tonight, Dreamforce is the reason.) For me, I’m just as interested in the predictions being made for 2020 by CEOs, keynote speakers, and […]

Alison Lingane co-founded Project Equity to help retiring business owners transition their companies … [+] to employee ownership. Ashoka Alison Lingane and her co-founder Hilary Abell started Project Equity in 2014 to build demand for employee ownership and help American businesses transition to this business model. They now work with major cities and partners across […]

Laptop on the table with coffee shop background. save path. Getty When reflecting on Latina Equal Pay Day, Michelle Santana thought back to how she’s built a career for herself as a tattoo artist who got her start in Colombia and is now based in New York City. “I’ve been a part of the tattoo […]

Pagame t-shirts, a part of #WeAllGrow’s Latina Equal Pay Day campaign. Daniela Velasquez-Mora It takes Latinas about 23 months to make what a white man makes on average over the span of 12 months. The financial breakdown has Latinas making 54 cents to every dollar a white, non Latinx man makes.  Ana Flores, the founder […]

Colleen Wachob, with her husband Jason Wachob, is the co-CEO of mindbodygreen, a leading independent brand dedicated to wellness. MBG reaches 10 million people globally every month through written content, podcasts, events, and video classes. The company’s 360-degree approach to wellness incorporates mental, physical, spiritual, emotional, and environmental well-being. Today, mindbodygreen is launching a new […]

Getty Do you own a small business? If you do, you’ll want to offer your employees an attractive retirement plan. The 401(k) plan stands as among the most widely known and used corporate retirement plans. While your employees might find them attractive, as a plan sponsor, they do pose several challenges. While not required, it’s […]

Good customer service is pivotal to a business’s success. While larger corporations typically have the funds to support top-notch customer service, smaller businesses are often working with tighter budgets. Fortunately, you don’t need millions of dollars in revenue in order to give your clients a positive experience. The members of Forbes Business Council know the importance of good customer […]

Online marketplaces are everywhere these days. Amazon may be the most well-known, but they are hardly alone. It is a growing area, and a number of retailers are following suit. However, in the heat of competition, scaling marketplaces too quickly has led to a lack of attention and responsibility to consumers, and in particular, product […]

In an effort to stay competitive, brokerages are rolling out new pricing models at a rapid pace. The most touted is the zero-commission pricing strategy, which is taking the financial services industry by storm. The zero-commission trend began in early October 2019 with TD Ameritrade and E-Trade both announcing zero-commission strategies. And most recent to […]

Companies are moving their on-premise software applications to the cloud and embracing the software as a service (SaaS) licensing and delivery model, hoping to reap its numerous benefits, which include cost savings, security, flexibility, disaster recovery and business continuity, scalability and access to automatic updates, among others. However, just because a solution is advertised as […]

The road to career success is paved with failures. Getty People in our society tend to view failure in a negative light. The most obvious example is in schools where students are discouraged from getting failing grades. In the real world, on the other hand, failure can be a good thing. Think about Thomas Edison. […]

Eu’Genia Shea Naasakle Akuete In this column, I most often write about million-dollar-plus women-owned businesses. Despite the tremendous growth in the number of these businesses, women’s companies are about one third as likely to pass the million-dollar mark than their male counterparts. Over the past five years, the rate of growth in the number of […]

Tracee Ellis Ross and a product from her new line, Pattern Beauty. Micaiah Carter One of the first entrepreneurial “aha” moments that helped to kick-start Golden Globe-winning actress and Black-ish star Tracee Ellis Ross’ journey with her new hair care line was, appropriately, in a beauty supply store. It was 2008—when her hit show Girlfriends […]

Tom Mitchell Tom Mitchell An arguably much-needed rebranding is taking place. Until recently, the rise in average temperatures across the earth was usually referred to in neutral-sounding terms, such as “global warming” or climate change. Today we talk instead of a “climate emergency” and protesters are taking to the streets under the banner of Extinction […]

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in partnership with His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi convened the “Reaching The Last Mile Forum” in Abu Dhabi today with a host of world leaders and philanthropists to announce total pledges of $2.6 billion to fight polio. Following the announcement, I […]

Abhi Lokesh, CEO and co-founder of Fracture, has been thinking about how he can make his company … [+] more eco-friendly. Fracture This holiday season many consumers will turn to prints as a thoughtful gift. This Florida-based company is making those prints with little waste, in a 30,000 square foot solar-powered facility, and investing in […]

November 19th is Women’s Entrepreneurship Day across the globe. Recent research suggests that women … [+] business owners are poised to have unprecedented success in 2020. Getty Today is Women’s Entrepreneurship Day, celebrated on November 19th to honor how women are advancing as entrepreneurs and business owners across the world.  Historically, women have controlled a […]

Startups are talking more about building ethics into their companies from the start. Shutterstock   Big tech has been battered in the past few years with criticism from consumers, lawmakers and regulators. Facebook faces continued questions regarding exposed user data in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Twitter has come under fire after investigations […]

Need more page views? Better search engine visibility? Okay, those are rhetorical questions—all of us do. But a recent trend could be making this more difficult than ever. Let me tell you about a conversation I had recently with a part-time blogger friend of mine. He’s had his website for more than a decade and […]

Jayson Berryhill at Fish 2.0 Fish 2.0 Here are two trends: More retailers want to know where their food comes from, mostly because more consumers are asking for that information. And a slew of startups are turning to blockchain technology, not for its cryptocurrency uses, but its security and transparency. Enter Wholechain, a platform built […]

Unit economics provides a framework for measuring the profitability of selling one unit of your … [+] solution. Knowing what it will take to profit from every transaction is key to evaluating the potential of the startup idea and the different levers that need to be focused on for the numbers to add up. Getty […]

A conversation about why outsourcing the moral responsibilities of AI is not an option. Miguel Luengo, AI expert, entrepreneur and chief scientist at UN Global Pulse, speaks with Konstanze Frischen, Ashoka’s global leader on Tech & Humanity. (Full bios below.) Miguel, you have spent a lot of time examining the AI & Ethics landscape. What […]

Students watch presentation with hands-on giant globe at a science centre. Getty A few months ago, I attended a digital learning conference among other education colleagues here in Chicago. Regardless of a new product or teaching strategy, the barriers teachers face when it comes to making any changes in a school district hasn’t changed since […]

To find the right book, you may just have to read between the lines Getty We’re fast approaching the season of giving, and books make great gifts. Not only are they easy to wrap (no awkward shapes to disguise or knobbly parts to conceal) and won’t break the bank, but giving someone the gift of […]

For most of us in northern climes, the holidays mean fly fishing season is, sadly, in the rearview mirror. The good news? The holidays also mean it’s time to stock up for the season ahead. Here are 11 products that will help make the 2020 fly fishing season your best ever. Loop 7X Rod Loop […]

This article is part of our Women and Leadership special section, which focuses on approaches taken by women, minorities or other disadvantaged groups challenging traditional ways of thinking. The number of female entrepreneurs is on the rise around the world. Women-owned businesses in the United States, for example, are surging, according to the 2019 State […]

Most of the focus on innovation is on the ability to innovate and execute, but there is one area that is often overlooked: the CEO role as a catalyst for innovation. It turns out the CEO has a statistically significant influence on a company’s innovation and performance through R&D investments. This is especially true in […]

The average real estate investor needs to balance a lot of tasks. Managing hundreds of listings, comparing them to the cost of property within the area and seeing if it makes sense investing in that asset are all part of the workload. The level of consideration an investor has in a property can easily be […]

In his exceptional book Indistractable, Nir Eyal illustrates the flaws in the human condition. We have been programmed to be distracted and less productive than we could be. These flaws are exacerbated by the habit-forming nature of technology. We are hooked on social media. Our browsers are open to a chat program, our stock page, our […]

Planning an event is tedious in and of itself, so ensuring that every single aspect of your event is eco-friendly may not be realistic. Rather than feel overwhelmed and give up, it’s far more beneficial to pick even just a couple of basic practices and do your best to remain consistent with them throughout the […]

With attack frequency and sophistication, the financial services industry must find ways to efficiently approach incident and breach risks. The reality is, security incidents affect financial services firms 300 times more frequently than businesses in other industries. Firms no longer have the option to implement a cyber program. Regulations are mandatory. Examples of well-known cyber […]

From recruiting to office culture, it’s no secret that millennials have dominated conversations about the workplace. Just when we thought we had begun to understand millennials, a new cohort entered the workforce: Generation Z. Gen Z, consisting of those born between 1995 and 2015, is the single largest generation in the U.S., accounting for nearly […]

There is a natural aversion to making difficult calls that portend significant change. Perhaps it’s not exactly natural per se, but it would seem by observation to be imprinted in us psychologically to avoid having to make anything like a significant, life-altering decision. It certainly explains the prevalence of procrastination, kicking the can down the […]

Time to Say Goodbye sign Getty We’ve heard it a million times in a million different ways. You can’t embrace the future with one foot stuck in the past. You can’t go forward if you’re looking in the rear view mirror. You can’t solve problems with the same thinking that created the problems in the […]

Blockchain isn’t overhyped, and it’s no longer the utopian dream of a few crypto enthusiasts. A recent Deloitte report surveyed more than 1,300 senior executives from around the world, and 53% identified blockchain as a critical priority for 2019. According to the report, blockchain has finally come of age. It’s evolving into a “mature solution […]

This article is part of our Women and Leadership special section, which focuses on approaches taken by women, minorities or other disadvantaged groups challenging traditional ways of thinking. These women are shaking up their industries around the world by making bets on their vision and on themselves. They have started their own businesses to solve […]

Bejay Mulenga Courtesy of Bejay Mulenga Bejay Mulenga is an impressive 24-year-old serial entrepreneur, who has already celebrated a decade of establishing businesses across industries – such as recruitment, marketing and media production –  and with his latest venture Supa Network, has provided services to some of the world’s most influential brands, including Apple and […]

With early-stage investment in European companies continuing to accelerate, London-based VC, Balderton Capital last week launched a new $400 million fund aimed primarily at businesses that have reached the crucial Series A stage. The fund is being launched against the backdrop of a maturing European VC marketplace, with more money is coming on stream to […]

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives for a House Financial Services Committee hearing on Capitol … [+] Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019, on Facebook’s impact on the financial services and housing sectors. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ASSOCIATED PRESS “Facebook is the primary means of connecting SMBs with employees, partners, and customers, yet they are failing […]

New equity crowdfunding entrant Fundopolis launched today, highlighting the challenges for late entrants. Fundopolis launched this morning with two campaigns on the portal, Apotheka Systems, which with just a few hours of history has not yet raised any money toward its $1,070,000 goal , and Bee Mortgage App, which has raised $100. The Securities and […]

Getty A 401(k) Investment Policy Statement (IPS) can provide a vital map to the continuing success of a company sponsored 401(k) plan. It frames how the plan undertakes its due diligence on behalf of plan participants. It guides the plan sponsor both in its fiduciary duty and in its monitoring of third-party providers. Yet, for […]

I was recently honored to give a guest lecture in Dirk Soma’s Entrepreneurship class at University of Hawaii’s Kauai Community College campus. I was invigorated by the students’ intensity and drive and intrigued with their capstone project: HI Joe!, a startup focused on selling coffee grown and roasted in Hawaii. Realizing that entrepreneurship is best […]