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Building a Business

The Rise of the Robotic Co-Worker

By assuming core processes in factories, labs, hospitals, offices, will machines make people irrelevant or unemployed? Consider this argument that humans partnered with such machines will give rise to efficiency, customer service and innovation.

By Alastair Bathgate

Building a Business

10 Tips for Building a Successful Software Business

By Ron Yekutiel

Building a Business

Want to Join the ‘Unicorn Club’? Here’s What 3 Companies Did to Get There.

By Zach Cutler

Tech

Don’t Get Stuck in the Software Jam

By Jason Richelson

Business News

16 Productivity Tools Useful for Every Entrepreneur

Every job is easier with the right tools.

By Matt Keener

Tech

The Software Tools in My Company’s Arsenal

A company executive shares his choices for powering up his office.

By Miles Jennings

Building a Business

The 23 Best Business Tools Built By Startups

These apps could help you run your company more efficiently.

By Sujan Patel

Business Operations & Logistics

Master the Art of the Cluster Sell and Dominate Your Industry

A software company CEO describes a strategy to capture many clients across a business sector.

By Ben Zifkin

Building a Business

How to Become the Zappos of Your Industry

See if you, too, can build a potent company culture in an unlikely business sector.

By Darius Mirshahzadeh

Building a Business

PayPal’s Job Recruiting Secret: Hackathons

'Every industry is being disrupted by software, and so demand for software talent, engineering talent, has just been growing up,' PayPal's CTO says.

By Mary Thompson

Building a Business

What Are Your Sales Reps Telling Customers? Now You Can Figure It Out.

By utilizing software that tracks the content your team members utilize in sales, you can see who and what is performing best and develop better messages.

By Joe Gustafson

Tech

The Three Letters That Could Change Your Business: API

Use computer code to mine and generate revenue from the larger ecosystem of complementary applications and services.

By Eric Dynowski

Marketing

3 Ways to Optimize Your Marketing-Automation Systems

It's time to give up on the dream of shortcuts. By setting up your system correctly from the start, you can create better conversations with buyers and learn how your potential clients behave.

By Justin Gray

Tech

The Benefits of In-Car Technology

From monitoring driver behavior to checking vehicle wear, here's how telematics software can help manage your company's fleet.

By Michael Frank

Building a Business

The Beauty of the GPS Tracker

It can track vehicle location, real-time movement and driver performance, dramatically increasing efficiency.

By Jason Fogelson

Tech

With Open-Source Software, You Don’t Have to Start From Scratch

These programs are a gift and can be adapted to fit your needs at a low cost.

By Asha Saxena

Building a Business

Is the Death of Brick-and-Mortar Retail a Myth?

Old-fashioned stores still can offer consumers a wide variety of options. Vendors can analyze trends and customize their offerings to cater to shoppers' desires.

By Gary Lee

Building a Business

Salesforce Launches $100 Million Fund to Invest in Entrepreneurs Building Apps On Its Platform

Startups get cash and credibility. The San Francisco-based tech company gets a stake in the companies building on its infrastructure.

By Catherine Clifford

Tech

5 Tips From One Nontechnical Founder to Others

Start off your software company in the right direction and build a business that will draw clients to pay the bills.

By Travis Parsons

Tech

3 Ways Apple Automator Can Speed Up Your Workflow

This handy software efficiently completes unbearably redundant tasks.

By Larry Alton

Marketing

Marketing Automation Can Help Startups Sell Like the Big Brands

Using software to develop leads can be effective, but keep four things in mind when forming a strategy.

By Justin Gray

Tech

Basecamp’s Rebel Recipe for Success: 5 Ways the Software Maverick Made Millions by Being Different

Here are the surprising, unorthodox strategies that helped the early software as a service pioneer rise to -- and stay at the top of -- the crowded online project management space.

By Kim Lachance Shandrow

Tech

The Legacy Users You Might Meet in Enterprise Software Heaven

Leverage the power of the champions of new technology at your company to address the resistors of change.

By Himanshu Sareen

Building a Business

How to Know When to Bring Software Development In House

Don't let sticker shock keep you from building your own development team. Outsourcing is often not the bargain it seems.

By Chuck Cohn

Building a Business

How Small Businesses Can Embrace Big Data

It's possible to analyze large information sets to boost product quality, improve marketing and further customer relationships -- all without a huge price tag,

By Joanna Schloss

Building a Business

Your New Enterprise Sales Strategy: Forget Managers, Focus on Users

Meetings with big decision-makers can be hard to come by, so get your software in the hands of employees and hope they spread the word.

By Sarah Austin

Business News

Is Apple’s App Store Broken?

Marco Arment, Tumblr's founding lead developer, says the business of app development has become something different, and more difficult, than it was not too long ago.

By Jason Fell