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How Mentorship Shapes Resilient Leaders and Thriving Teams
When I first started my business, the word 'mentor' felt abstract to me. I thought successful entrepreneurs inspire us with their stories and achieve everything through their knowledge, determination — and maybe a bit of luck. But the real experience turned out to be way more complex. Behind every great success is someone who helped guide the way, asked the…
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2024’s most overhyped marketing trends, according to CMOs
Marketing can be a lot like your TikTok feed: some trends are genius, and others make you scroll right away.As we look back on 2024, we asked CMOs and other top marketers what they believe…
How to Motivate, Inspire and Energize Your Employees
Imagine a team so energized that every project feels like a shared victory, where ideas flow freely and people bring their best to work every day. It's the kind of environment every leader dreams of,…
How I Learned to Scale Without Adding More Hours
When you start a business, you're all in. This is true for many entrepreneurs — and I know it was for me. I committed myself to making every decision on every project. I dealt with…
Wayve’s AI Self-Driving System Is Here to Drive Like a Human and Take On Waymo and Tesla
As I arrive, he's laying out an impressive lunch spread of salads and carved ham and huge blocks of good cheese. There are already 385 mouths to feed in London alone, and almost 450 staff…
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How to Optimize Every Social Platform for Better SEO and Get More Views
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Blockchain Innovation Will Put an AI-Powered Internet Back Into Users’ Hands
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How to Decide If It’s Time to Quit or Double Down on Your Business
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Why Businesses Are Relying on Automation to Survive the Labor Crisis
No longer confined to science fiction or experimental labs, robots are now playing pivotal roles in manufacturing, food service and warehousing. From startups looking to scale quickly to established enterprises seeking efficiency, automation is proving indispensable across sectors. Faced with labor shortages, rising operational costs and increasing demands for efficiency,…
Former Steve Jobs Intern: AI Would Be ‘Top Of Mind’
DataStax CEO Chet Kapoor was once an intern for the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.He worked for Jobs from 1989 to 1993 as a campus consultant intern at a computer company Jobs founded, NeXT, and says that if Jobs were alive today, he would be thinking about AI."If he was…
Inside a Fusion Startup’s Insane, Top-Secret Opening Ceremony
So the race is on to engineer an efficient surrounding for fusion. One of Fuse’s ideas is to get a bunch of big capacitors to discharge at once, thus kick-starting a reaction. That’s why, at our show, there were all those big caps behind the audience. (You also see constructions…
Their Side Hustle Made Over $500k in 2 Years, Hit 7 Figures
This Side Hustle Spotlight Q&A features Paris Emily Nicholson, 26, and Saskia Teje Jenkins, 25. The business partners and friends began working on Australian fashion brand Amelie Teje as a side hustle in 2020 with just $2,500 each and have since grown it to seven figures. Responses have been edited…
Our favorite (and least favorite) brand collaborations of 2024
Get marketing news you'll actually want to readMarketing Brew informs marketing pros of the latest on brand strategy, social media, and ad tech via our weekday newsletter, virtual events, marketing conferences, and digital guides.It was the best of collabs, it was the worst of collabs.This year, the trend of pairing…
Be a Superstar Presenter by Avoiding 5 Common Mistakes
Are you tired of sitting through boring presentations? I know I am. With all the attention on business communication, you might think that individuals would pay more attention to creating engaging presentations. After all, presentations help close deals, pitch ideas, get us noticed and so much more. So, why isn't…
Automation Doesn’t Have to Be Complex — 5 Ways It Helps Small Businesses Compete
Repetitive tasks are everywhere — think report generation, email sorting and system checks — but they are still daunting for most businesses. Unfortunately, even though 90% of businesses recognize the apparent benefits of automation, 70% remain bogged down by the misconception that it is complex and hard to adopt.At the…
What Billionaire Frank McCourt Would Actually Do With TikTok
People don't know what they don't have until you sell it to them, right? And I'm very convinced that when people see that there's a version of TikTok 2.0, where they curate their algorithm, they're in charge, and they own themselves and parse out their data and get value for…
This Is the New Type of Hire All Startups Need on Their Team
The traditional approach to talent acquisition is undergoing a significant shift. As a founder and investor, I'm operating at the tip of the spear in building and scaling tech companies, I've observed a growing demand for a new type of professional — I like to call this person the "boulder…
The most unexpected influencer successes of 2024
When their 15 minutes of fame came calling, some social media users refused to hang up the phone.This year, several seemingly regular people leveraged their viral moments into the beginnings of full-fledged influencing or entertainment careers. One day, they were just like us. The next, they were starting podcasts and…
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Why Companies Fail Without Leaders Who See Beyond the Bottom Line
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This Christmas, while some folks may binge classic holiday films like The Polar Express or…