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Part 2 of 2 on the common hurdles new founders face (a lack of time, money, confidence and focus).

Thousands of redundancies have been announced by some of the largest firms in the industry.

Whether you are starting a business or been at it for a while, one key to success is for your business to find momentum.

A big rich company, a company that dominates the market for its product, and a company that dominates the broader tech industry are three quite different things. Market cap isn’t power. IBM ruled…

It's possible to see an economic downturn (or recession) as an economic opportunity, rather than a detriment. And with the right strategies, you can help your business thrive under these conditions.

As humans, we tend to interpret information in a way that confirms our existing beliefs and serves our own self-interest. In situations that lack clarity, we often make assumptions that serve to…

«The author offers three strategies to help you combat this bias: 1) Consider the source of the information you’re relying on; 2) Think counterfactually about previous decisions you’ve made; and 3) Seek out information that challenges your assumptions.»

Gen AI is evolving at record speed while CEOs are still learning the technology’s business value and risks. Here, we offer some of the generative AI essentials.

The long read: For more than half a century, one organisation has been certifying and cataloguing all of life’s superlatives. But has it gone from being about the pursuit of knowledge to simply…

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«Highly focused businesses may do less, but they get more done»

The 10 blue links aren’t gone, but AI is pushing them down the page.

After a certain point, increasing one input reduces efficiency. Here's how you can use the law of diminishing returns to do more with less:

«Identify the core 20% activities that will give 80% of the results in each area of your business (and life).»

Debt is a financial miracle. If you buy a property for 20% down, with the bank financing the rest, and it goes up in value by just 10%, your profit is 50%. (I’ll wait while you do the math.) …

How do startups compete in the midst of a platform shift?

A few short stories whose lessons apply to many things: Author R.L. Stine is one of the bestselling authors of all time. His Goosebumps series of scary kids books have sold over 400 million copies.…

«A book is far more than what the author wrote; it is everything you can imagine and read into it as well.”»

When Mark Zuckerberg announced in October 2021 that Facebook would now be known as “Meta,” many people fell for several astonishingly obvious lies. As I said: Zuckerberg has absolutely no clue what he…

He swiped right, they swiped his car, and then, he tried to get even.

What ails Google. And how it can turn things around.

Generative AI has the potential to disrupt nearly every industry—promising both competitive advantage and creative destruction. CEOs, who are likely several steps removed from the technology itself,…

As the US boosts production of silicon chips, an American journalist goes inside TSMC, the mysterious Taiwanese company at the center of the global industry.

Three months, thousands of layoffs, one ego

You may think you know the Nintendo story: a plumber named Mario, a princess named Zelda… and didn’t they buy the Seattle Mariners at some point? We thought we knew it too. And then we started…