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Six Deadly Security Blunders Businesses Make. Small, subtle mistakes can lead to big security breaches Sometimes it's the unknown or overlooked little mistakes that leave an organization wide open to attack: a missing hash mark in a server configuration, a long-forgotten PBX user account, or an embedded Web server in an office printer. With compliance pressures, increasingly cagey malware, and the fear of being the next front-page data breach victim, it's no wonder that enterprises might not notice potential problems with their lower-profile devices, or make subtle configuration mistakes. The 6-Step Method To Making A Hugely Successful Product : Innovation. Is Starting A Business Safer Than Your Job? [Infographic] What's Better - Getting a Job or Starting a Business?

With a slow economy, many people have turned to entrepreneurship as a means to pay the bills. Which begs the question, what’s better today — getting a job or starting a business? We dug deep to find out the numbers and have compared the risk of starting a business to keeping a job. Rules - StumbleUpon. The Power Of The Mind: How To Train Yourself To Be More Successful :... How can you use the latest discoveries in brain science to improve your life?

Here are some techniques. November 02, 2011 Leadership tycoon Warren Bennis once said, “We seem to collect information because we have the ability to do so, but we are so busy collecting it that we haven’t devised a means of using it. The true measure of any society is not what it knows but what it does with what it knows.” There is a wealth of information at our disposal today on the latest discoveries in brain science. Bootstrapping a Startup - Business Exchange - StumbleUpon. BGN Entrepreneur & Turbulent Markets Derail EMI Sale. 21 Books Every Entrepreneur Should Read. Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action.

How to Make a Demo Video for Your Startup (Video) Raising money is a black swan &045; Venture Hacks. Nivi · December 9th, 2008 Raising money is like finding a black swan.

12 Brawny Business Intelligence Products For SMBs. Business intelligence isn't just for the big boys anymore. Check out our short list of star SMB options, from easy-to-deploy SaaS choices to affordable versions of the biggest BI suites. 1 of 14 12 Brawny Business Intelligence Options For SMBsBusiness intelligence started out as a technology geared to large organizations with big budgets and plenty of IT support. The good news for small and midsize businesses is that BI has gone mainstream and that trend has led to plenty of low-cost, easy-to-deploy, and easy-to-manage BI options.

There are desktop-analysis tools that enable power users to distribute reports, dashboards, and data visualizations across your organization. How Fewer Working Hours Can Save Our Health, Economy, and the Planet. September 9, 2011 | Like this article?

Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Millions of Americans have lost control over the basic rhythm of their daily lives. They work too much, eat too quickly, socialize too little, drive and sit in traffic for too many hours, don’t get enough sleep, and feel harried too much of the time. Grasshopper - The Entrepreneurs Phone System. The Benefits of Top-Down Thinking & Why it is Critical to Entrepreneurs... For the first 5 years of my career I was a “bottom up” thinker and worker.

I assembled tons of data, grouped things, found results and drew conclusions. It was difficult to make the transition to a “top down” thinker but as a senior executive – and as an entrepreneur – you’re far less effective without this skill in your arsenal. You need to be able to structure problems / solutions at the appropriate level to communicate effective and drive decision-making. Cameron Herold: Let's raise kids to be entrepreneurs. Five Skills You Need for Startup Success, According to Ethernet Inventor Bo...

Ethernet inventor and generally accomplished tech super-guy Bob Metcalfe gave a great opening keynote talk at this morning's Capital Factory Demo Day in Austin, Texas.

The event has been good so far and is live streaming online for free. Metcalfe offered a wide ranging talk to open the day but included some tasty tidbits in the form of two lists: five personal skills that entrepreneurs need to develop in order to succeed in building tech companies that scale and six types of people a startup ecosystem needs to include in order to foster success. Five Skills Entrepreneurs Need Be healthy. Are startups all about pulling all nighters and eating ramen noodles? Who's hiring, and in a big way - Money Markets And More. 13 Business Books That Will Blow Your Mind. Having never taken a business class in college I find that I read and listen to a lot of business books to round out my education.

The books usually aren't "How to Manage Your Cash Flow" but rather get me to rethink the way I run my business, which--despite no business classes or diploma--continues to be in business 13 plus years after I started it. In that time, here are 13 of the books that had the biggest impact on how I run my business (in no particular order): Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink: If you supervise anyone in your business, this book is a must read.

It shows that what science knows about motivation, business isn't putting into practice. Quick Practical, Tactical Tips for Presentations. How to pick a co-founder &045; Venture Hacks. Naval · November 12th, 2009 Update: Also see our 40-minute interview on this topic.

Picking a co-founder is your most important decision. It’s more important than your product, market, and investors. The ideal founding team is two individuals, with a history of working together, of similar age and financial standing, with mutual respect. One is good at building products and the other is good at selling them. The power of two Two is the right number — avoid the three-body problem. One founder companies can work, against the odds (hello, Mark Zuckerberg).

Two founders works because unanimity is possible, there are no founder politics, interests can easily align, and founder stakes are high post-financing. Someone you have history with. 50 Inspiring Entrepreneur Startup Quotes. Eight Questions To Ask Before You Start A Business. Are you thinking of starting a web business?

Starting a PPC Management agency? Setting up your own site and selling things, or building a web publishing empire? Before you start, ask yourself the following eight questions. Top 10 Traits Of Highly Successful People. Rating: 8.2/10 (185 votes cast) We have all read about people who are successful briefly.

They win a gold medal, make a fortune, or star in one great movie and then disappear. …These examples do not inspire me! My focus and fascination is with people who seem to do well in many areas of life, and do it over and over through a lifetime. Business Ideas for the Self Employed. Several years ago, I had a lovely long-term consulting assignment which kept me both busy and solvent. One morning I woke up and realized that it was coming to an end and I had nothing lined up. After a few moments of panic, I decided to get serious about creating my next income source.

I didn’t have a great deal of time to devote to this, so I gave myself the challenge of finding a way to earn $100—an easily accomplished goal. 10 YouTube Videos Every Entrepreneur Should Watch. Unsupported Browser. Today, we are excited to share that Identified has been acquired by Workday. This is an exciting outcome for everyone involved in Identified and we want to thank our team, Board of Directors, investors, customers, advisors, families and the other countless people that have supported us over the years.

Waller Capital served as an exclusive advisor to Identified in this transaction. Since we co-founded Identified out of a shared dorm room at Stanford University in 2010, we have assembled what we believe to be the best group of data scientists and engineers in the industry. This team has built technology that uses big data from the social web to uncover insights and relationships that change the way companies pursue talent, manage their workforces, and improve their competitiveness. Now, as part of Workday, we will focus on enhancing search capabilities and accelerating the delivery of predictive analytics and machine learning throughout the entire suite of Workday applications. All Revenue is Not Created Equal: The Keys to the 10X Revenue Club &... May 24, 2011: May 24, 2011: [Follow Me on Twitter] Mahendra Ramsinghani: What Every Entrepreneur Can Learn From Facebooks Early...

On January 4, 2011, Mark Zuckerberg woke up to some good news. TIME magazine named him the "Person of the Year" and had his photo on the cover. The same day's Wall Street Journal featured a story on MySpace, Facebook's once formidable competitor, and its dramatic downsizing. Entrepreneurs dream of such fame, not to mention the total decimation of competition. Here are five lessons from Facebook's early years for every entrepreneur. How Training Employees Can Boost Sales - VerticalResponse. Column by Janine Popick, Inc.com "Female CEOs" October 16, 2009 When I started VerticalResponse we had just four employees. Fortune 100 Best Companies (Infographic) Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at... How To Make The Worlds Easiest $1 Billion. With all the banks paying back the TARP money, some folks are assuming that the great Wall Street bailout is finally coming to an end.

But of course it isn't! Taxpayers are still guaranteeing all big bank bonds (Too Big To Fail) and subsidizing huge bank earnings and bonuses with absurdly low interest rates. But instead of bellyaching about it, you might as well just smile and cash in. After all, that's what Wall Street's doing.