Building a Business
Enemy Mine: Rethink Your Approach to the Competition
Many entrepreneurs are not thinking enough about their potential competition. Survival depends upon keeping your "enemies" close.
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Building a Business
How Samsung Rewrote its Playbook to Regain Some Ground in the Smartphone Market
By Reuters
Building a Business
Google Is Playing Defense Instead of Setting the Agenda
This year's crop of products at the I/O conference have a decidedly déjà vu feeling to them.
Thought Leaders
Best-Selling Author Tim Ferriss Doles Out Business Advice
We asked our Twitter followers: What business conundrums are you facing? Then we sent them to the author of The 4-Hour Workweek.
Thought Leaders
7 Lessons on How Not to Lead From the Villains of ‘Star Wars’
'Do or do not. There is no try.'
By Nina Zipkin
Building a Business
Banks, Tech Companies Move on From Bitcoin to Blockchain
Blockchain, the technology that underlies Bitcoin, is generating interest from investors.
By Reuters
Building a Business
Paypal’s Profit Surges on Growth in Transactions and New Users
The company, which is facing increasing competition from rival digital payment services by Apple, Samsung and Square, is tying up with retailers, airlines and other companies to drive growth
By Reuters
Building a Business
How These Mormon Women Became Some of the Best Cybersecurity Hackers in the U.S.
The Brigham Young University team took second place in its first year competing at the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Championship.
Business Funding
This Promising Uber Rival Just Raised $120 Million
Cabify is based in Spain but big in Latin America.
By David Meyer
Building a Business
Europe Charges Google With Abusing Android Market Dominance
Regulators allege that by requiring mobile phone manufacturers to pre-install Google Search and the Google Chrome browser, the U.S. company was denying consumers a wider choice.
By Reuters
Business News
Obama Urges FCC to Open Cable Box Competition
The rule would allow consumers to obtain video services from providers such as Alphabet, Apple and Tivo.
By Reuters
Building a Business
Hasbro and Indiegogo Want You to Design Their Newest Game
An international competition offers the chance for a gaming enthusiast to have their original game idea turned into reality.
By Nick Summers
Tech
How to Tell Your Most Intimate Secrets to Your Competitors
You just opened your computer on a flight to a convention, with your competitor's rep seated right behind you. Are you crazy?
Building a Business
Meet the Secretive Startup Trying to Steal Uber’s Top Drivers
'Juno drivers are basically the best drivers that Uber and Lyft have,' CEO claims.
Business News
The One Surprise From Apple’s Event Yesterday
About a half-hour into its sales pitch, the company announced the long-rumored iPhone SE, with one notable feature.
Building a Business
Fun, Flexibility and Competition Will Put the Pep Back in the Step of Your Staff
As a business owner, I've seen it with my own eyes -- these eight strategies will increase employee productivity by 20 percent.
Business News
Fedex: Amazon Would Have to Spend ‘Tens Of Billions’ to Compete With Us
Amazon recently leased 20 cargo aircraft and bought thousands of its own trailer trucks, while calling itself a 'transportation service provider' for the first time in its annual filings.
By Eugene Kim
Building a Business
Stop Comparing Yourself to Competitors. Start Perfecting Your Craft.
The only way to smoke your competition is to get better at what you do.
Building a Business
Xerox’s New Tech Scans Documents in One Language Then Prints Them in Another
The Easy Translator Service is available through the company's multifunction printers, a web portal and an iOS and Android app.
By Nina Zipkin
Building a Business
5 Strategies to Effectively Determine Your Market Size
By understanding market value, you can determine two things: the addressable market and the available market. Learn to outline the difference of each for your startup.
By Tx Zhuo
Business News
The Super Bowl of Drone Racing Will Offer $1 Million in Prize Money
The first ever World Drone Prix will take place on March 11 and 12 in Dubai.
Business News
Uber and Competitor Launch Motorcycle Services in India on the Same Day. This Should Be Interesting.
Two-wheelers are the most popular form of transport in many of India's traffic-clogged cities.
By Reuters
Thought Leaders
The Deadliest Trap an Entrepreneur Can Fall Into
The two reasons that the green-eyed monster can kill your business success
Building a Business
Why You Should Focus on ‘Different’ and ‘Better,’ Not ‘More’
Compete by offering something none of your competitors do.
By Jess Ekstrom
Building a Business
Dare to Be Different — or Watch Your Business Derail
Many things can cause a small business to fail, but the most frequent reason is that the owner has failed to effectively differentiate his or her product or service from the competition.
Marketing
7 Inconvenient Truths About Content Marketing
The competition is enormous -- and so is the level of noise you have to get over just to be seen and heard by potential customers.
By Steve Tobak
Building a Business
How Scrappy Startups Are Battling Corporate Juggernauts
As startups in the enterprise space deal with David-and-Goliath dynamics, they're honing their weapons to overcome the giants' advantages.
By Tx Zhuo
Buying a Franchise
7 Business Feuds With More Beef Than Kanye vs. Taylor
When money is involved, all bets are off.