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If your company "pivots" to "disrupt" an industry, you need a new strategy. Oh sure, you might have heard that Company X made a billion dollars by doing that. But when the lingo of a few billionaires becomes the lingo of thousands of entrepreneurs, the overused words begin to lose their meaning...

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The International Man of Mystery might be popular, but he can't help entrepreneurs promote their startups. That, however, did not stop one man from trying to enlist in the help of a bare-chested Austin Powers. "It's a long story, but we were introduced to a venture capitalist by a mutual friend...

These 10 tips could prevent your startup from facing certain doom. "You can go it alone for a while, but eventually team is everything," advises Scott Bell, CEO of the wealth management firm MyGDP. Second, Bell told Benzinga that you should "read James Altucher's How to Have a BIG Idea. And then...

Its user base more than doubled in the last 12 hours. The company has grown so fast that its co-founder and CEO, Patrick Ambron, had to update his final press release before sending it to Benzinga. "You'll see that we have now more than TRIPLED our user base, with no signs of slowing down,"...

In various facets of the business world, I'm still often surprised to see some businesses that do accept credit cards and others that don't.  As technology has progressed, we're seeing mobile swipe capability for smartphones while some businesses still don't accept credit cards at all.  Just the...

Think your business is destined to be the next big thing? Think again. It turns out that most entrepreneurs go into business without the right mindset -- or the right purpose. "Today, with 12% to 16% unemployment, the real rate of unemployment, everybody's out there saying, 'I can't get a job, I'...

I recently suggested that a major tech boom may very well be on the horizon in the US economy -- spurred by a blend of vigorous technological development, desperation in the marketplace, and the conatus of human survival. I use the word "boom" and not "bubble" in the sense that such technological...

Some do it for the fame and fortune. Some do it to get away from the corporate world. Some do it because they don't know what else to do with their life. But when Brett Golden, the president and co-founder of The Chart Lab, set out to create something new, Chart Lab Pro, he did it because the...

What happens when a former Yahoo! VP starts a new firm and joins forces with a company that specializes in tag management? We're about to find out now that nPario, a company that aims to empower business users to drive more relevant experiences for their customers through data, has joined forces...