Most people believe that the first step to starting a new company is to have a great idea. Back in business school, there were countless ?idea brainstorming? sessions where groups of students would try to come up with the next billion dollar idea. None of them ever turned into anything. Great businesses are not built ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 23:54

Movie director ?s return yesterday from the deepest part of the ocean got my exploration juices flowing. Then I came across this beautiful timeline of missions. It?s from the 2009 special report, Why Mars? Why Now? in IEEE Spectrum. Moral of the story: Persistence pays off, always.

pubblicato il: 26/03/2012 - 21:15

When I hear the name ?Angry Birds,? I generally think about my seven- and nine-year-old boys snatching my iPhone and playing on the couch. What I don?t typically think of is public relations gaffes and backroom corporate arm wrangling exercises, with CMOs saying one thing about a much-anticipated new game offering only to have his ...

pubblicato il: 26/03/2012 - 21:19

In this series, we look through the most recent Dividend Channel ?DividendRank? report, and then we cherry pick only those companies that have experienced insider buying within the past six months. The officers and directors of a company tend to have a unique insider?s view of the business, and presumably the only reason an insider ...

pubblicato il: 26/03/2012 - 21:19

One myth I would really love to smash to bits is the notion that only a certain type of person can be successful in business. I meet far too many people who tell me they?d love to be an entrepreneur, but don?t think they could be themselves and do well in the business world. One ...

pubblicato il: 26/03/2012 - 21:20

This article, by , as told to , appears in the upcoming April issue of ForbesLife magazine, as part of its ?When I Was 25? series. By Benjamin Graham had been my idol ever since I read his book The Intelligent . I had wanted to go to School because he was a professor there, ...

pubblicato il: 26/03/2012 - 21:26

Social media will create a revolution in how we govern ourselves and eventually will start the next bull market, but not for at least three to five years.

pubblicato il: 26/03/2012 - 21:24

Serenity was the 2005 Joss Whedon film that answered many of the questions he posed in his television show, Firefly???questions like, "What's up with those evil Reavers?" Fans of the 'Verse will recognize the below fight scene, where the disturbed River Tam beats up a bar, thus answering a question only a few of us Firefly fans thought to ask, "Will the Alliance try to find River by activating a subliminal trigger in her mind, or does she just really hate that Fruity Oaty bar commercial?"

pubblicato il: 24/03/2012 - 07:21

The cause of Whitney Houston?s??February 11 death, ruled this week as a drowning, is far from a cut-and-dry case. Toxicology tests show that marijuana was in her system, along with the anti-anxiety drug Xanax, the muscle relaxant Flexeril, and the allergy medicine Benadryl. But those drugs, Chief Coroner Craig Harvey told reporters, did not contribute ...

pubblicato il: 24/03/2012 - 07:57

The general perception in the market is that CEO's of public companies are only focused on meeting the quarterly numbers. The following are 3 CEO's I've had the opportunity to spend meaningful 1:1 time with and who "get it" when it comes to innovation.

pubblicato il: 26/03/2012 - 21:26