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SALLIE KRAWCHECK: Here's What I Learned The First Time I Was Fired
This post originally appeared on LinkedIn. Follow Sallie on LinkedIn. There are some things worth being fired over. Sometimes your personal values don’t mesh with the company’s (regardless of what the...
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Most Startup Founders Aren't Cut Out To Run Their Companies
Almost all startups have a CEO – the person that sits atop the org chart – but not all have a CDM (Chief Decision Maker). Every new business needs one person who is going to make important decisions...
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The Most Influential Startup Investor In Silicon Valley Says This Is How You...
Want to do your own startup? Step one is coming up with an idea for something could eventually blossom into a business.How do you come up with that idea? Paul Graham, who sees hundreds of startup ideas...
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Publisher Tells Us What He Learned From His Dad — The Founder Of Penthouse
Bob Guccione, Jr. was born into the publishing industry — his father was founder of legendary Penthouse magazine."It's always hard for anyone to work in the family business," Guccione told us. "If I...
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Honestly, It's Not All That Hard To Start A Company
Maybe it’s whiner’s fatigue, but I’m getting tired of hearing about how hard it is to start a company and be a CEO. It’s not that hard.Running a successful, growing company in Silicon Valley can create...
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5 Essays That Got People Into Harvard Business School — And Why They Worked
With an acceptance rate of only 11 percent, even people with the most impeccable credentials and test scores routinely get turned down from Harvard Business School.What sets people apart are their...
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What It Was Like Trying To Raise Money The Day Lehman Brothers Collapsed
One of the essential ingredients for a startup is timing.GoodData CEO Roman Stanek knows that particularly well, having started his first major company just as the Internet bubble started, and sold it...
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Why Women Make Better Traders Than Men
When a trading website recently declared that women make better traders than men, ex-Rothschild banker Emma Sinclair dismissed it as a wild claim. That is, until, a wealth of research convinced her...
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How To Grow Your Company Like Zappos
When Tony Hsieh first got involved at Zappos.com in 1999, it was as an investor and advisor.He had already sold a company—Internet advertiser LinkExchange—to Microsoft for $265 million because it was...
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Everything You Want To Know About America's Best Colleges
WORK HARD, PARTY HARD: The Most Intense Colleges10 College Majors With The Biggest PaychecksThe 15 Best Colleges For Your MoneyThe 10 Best College Towns In America9 Unbelievable Student Loan Horror...
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15 Tech Geniuses Living Fabulous, Enviable Lives
Some people know how to live well.They work hard. They play hard. They have fabulous adventures and pursue exotic dreams.It's enough to make any normal human a little jealous.It's also enough to make...
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LinkedIn, Groupon, Yelp CEOs Reveal Their Game Plans
What's the future of daily deals, of geo-local data, of social networks?The CEOs of major technology companies LinkedIn, Groupon, and Yelp will speak on these topics and more next week at IGNITION:...
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How To Manipulate Consumers Into Craving Your Product
Getting a customer to buy your product is one thing. Getting them to buy that product on a weekly basis is another entirely.How to do it >New York Times business reporter and author Charles Duhigg...
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Mothers Are Missing Out On International Opportunities
Secret diary of a board babe: Our own relocation package, which does not include support for families moving abroad, is putting mothers at a career disadvantage. I am fighting to change my firm's...
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Just The Idea Of Being Called A Cheater Is Enough To Keep People Honest
When it comes to the decision to be honest or cheat, language plays a huge role. In a recent Stanford study, two different groups of participants were asked to think of a number between one and...
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The Best Hires Have A Healthy Paranoia And Fear Of Failure
You think you've had bad days?HomeAway co-founder Brian Sharples once lost seven figures worth of funding in three hours.Today, he's a successful CEO who made a boatload of cash in 2011 when his...
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'Power Posing' Before An Interview Makes You Much More Hireable
Harvard Professor Amy Cuddy has found that taking up a short "power pose," an open and expansive stance, can actually change body chemistry and make people feel more confident. Her new research with...
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The 4-Step Process For Mastering Any Skill
No matter how complex or daunting a particular skill can seem, if you go about it systematically, you can learn it far more quickly than you would think. Timothy Ferriss, the best selling author of The...
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The Brilliant Pivot That Turned Newscred Into One Of The Hottest Silicon...
Content marketing is one of the biggest new trends for companies. Businesses are bringing customers closer by building their own content, or getting it from elsewhere. One of the biggest new players in...
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McKinsey Predicts The War For Talent Will Go Nuts By 2020
Despite all the talk from Peter Thiel and others about how college is a poor investment, a new study from McKinsey finds that one of the biggest employment trends in coming decades will be a shortage...
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