A 14 Year Old’s Story Building and Marketing a Chatbot
Guest Speaker: Alec Jones "The Ups and Downs of Building and Marketing a Chat Bot When You’re 14" This is a short story about what I learned while coding a popular Facebook Messenger bot and my first week marketing it (a tweet
Social Currency is the Great Key To Your Success
The way you value people, the way you act in a social situation, and the way people value you, isn’t perfectly measurable. However, we can see trends that occur between different types of people. Knowing your value to the world Knowing your
Match Made in Heaven: How to Start a Business Partnership
Guest Speaker: The Oracles "6 Things to Consider Before Partnering Up" Savvy entrepreneurs use these strategies to ensure every business partnership is a match made in heaven. Great businesses are founded on great partnerships. But great businesses can also be destroyed by bad
The Ultimate Product Launch Checklist Is Here
Guest Speaker: Larry Kim "Launching a Product Soon? Check out: The Ultimate Product Launch Checklist!" Getting ready to go to market is a crazy, exciting, and stressful time. You’re probably pretty stoked, but almost certainly sleep-deprived and second-guessing yourself. Are you really ready
Why Running a Business is Like a Game of Pinball
Guest Speaker: Stephen J. Bronner "CES: Why Running a Business Is a Lot Like a Game of Pinball" Yet another metaphor for entrepreneurship. Entrepreneur is on the ground at this year's Consumer Electronics Show. Check back for highlights from the event as well
8 Richest Men Are Now as Wealthy as Half the World’s Population
A HANDFUL of men have the combined wealth of more than half the world’s population. According to an analysis by Oxfam. Research by the human rights watchdog found that the eight richest men on the planet have a collective worth of
Key Points On How To Rise Above Debt For Startup Businesses
Guest Speaker: Mike Wood "How to Keep From Getting Buried in Debt When Starting a Business" Got debt? Of course you do. I don’t know many businesses that don’t. There is such a thing as good debt and many businesses are able to grow
Google’s Latest Update is Now HTML5 Instead of Adobe Flash
Guest Speaker: Darien Cavanaugh "Google Chrome Replaces Adobe Flash with Html5 in Latest Update" Google Chrome has replaced Adobe Flash with HTML5 in its latest version, according to an Engadget report by Billy Steele “Google proposed making HTML5 the default over Flash in its Chrome browser back
Technology is a Drug. Who Got You Addicted?
Guest Speaker: Nir Eyal "Who’s Really Addicting You to Technology?" “Nearly everyone I know is addicted in some measure to the Internet,” wrote Tony Schwartz in a recent essay in The New York Times. It’s a common complaint these days. A steady
You Don’t Need A Billion Dollar Idea—Just Do It
Guest Speaker: Bryce Roberts "You Don’t Need a Master Plan — You Just Need to Start" Startups are overdosing on ambition these days Everything has to be a billion dollar idea that changes the world or it isn’t worth doing. These days, even a billion doesn’t seem