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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.

By all accounts, Philipp Meyer is a talented writer. He has won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His novels have been compared to the pantheon of Faulkner,…

«Meyer’s story is a reminder that our cultural obsession with raw talent is misguided. To truly unlock potential — either your own or that of the people you lead and teach — you must refine your shortcomings, too.»

Chinese e-commerce platforms like Shein, Temu, and TikTok Shop are going global with big ambitions.

The difference between success and failure is making sure your movement leads to progress. You'd be surprised how often it doesn't.

«The fact that you are avoiding the most important thing that you need to do is the best example of you doing a lot of movement with no progress.»

The long read: Andrew Wylie is agent to an extraordinary number of the planet’s biggest authors. His knack for making highbrow writers very rich helped to define a literary era – but is his reign now…

A borderline unusable user experience, littered with bugs and full of missed opportunities. Dive into a UX case study on Zara.com.

When Stack Overflow’s traffic apparently went into rapid decline this year, Elon Musk reacted on X with an epitaph: “Death by LLM.” (LLM stands for “large language model.”) His message initially sent…

«Create an AI roadmap now, not tomorrow»

In 1964, Warren Buffett owned shares in an old industry company with fading prospects. The company’s CEO viewed Buffett’s purchase as a threat to his job security, and offered to buy the shares back…

«George Marshall, then Army chief of staff, said after the war: “The leader in a democracy has to keep the people entertained. That may sound like the wrong word, but it conveys the thought.”»

A new book shows that the same talking points have been recycled for centuries, to oppose every form of progressive change.

How the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire—and is now struggling to rein him in.

Growth stages of companies and products

Most so-called "strategies" are vague, wishful thinking, written once and never seen again. Don't do that. These are the characteristics of great strategy.

«Average players want to be left alone. Good players want to be coached. Great players want the coach to tell them the truth.»

We finally have good data on what makes people happy. Why are we afraid to use it?

Leveraging strengths -- not "fixing weaknesses" -- is how to win. Better when differentiated. Best when durable. Here's how to create leverage.

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.

Credit card debt is the waste stream of consumer finance. The debt collection industry ends up being sordid, for complex structural and microeconomic reasons.

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…