If you are an entrepreneur doing business in New York City, then chances are you’ve heard of StrtupBoost. Founded in 2014 by Jason Malki, the organization has hosted scores of events designed to bring together all the different players in the NYC startup community. Jason describes StrtupBoost as “an ecosystem” comprised of mixers, panel...
Think hackers are just aiming for the big guys? Think again. Recent statistics indicate that 43 percent of all cyberattacks target small businesses. Moreover, 60 percent of them will go out of business within six months of the attack. To understand why this is, I have a bonus interview to add to my Dell...
Innovation, risk, and growth – three principles of business that go hand in hand. To show you how it works, let’s take a look at a shining example: Michael Dell, the founder and CEO of Dell Technologies. In the final episode of my Dell EMC World series, I get Michael’s advice for small business...
The gender gap in startups is well documented, particularly in the area of finance where research shows that female entrepreneurs raise smaller amounts of capital to get their businesses off the ground. Fortunately, the startup environment is starting to change, with more focus on helping women start businesses and scale up quickly. For example, at...
Earlier this May I took a trip to Las Vegas to attend Dell EMC World, a four-day conference jam packed with information about business, technological innovation and the digital transformation happening in small business. I’m talking keynotes, breakouts, guru sessions, and hands-on labs on over 500 different topics, plus interactive demos and the opportunity to...
When you think of serial entrepreneurship, you most likely think of individuals who launch business after business, logically working their way up from one company to the next. However, there are some who have taken a less traditional approach to entrepreneurship and still found themselves going toe-to-toe with those that stayed on the well-beaten...
I watched the new movie Hidden Figures with my family recently. If you haven't seen it, it is a movie about three black American women who overcame segregation and racism in the 1960's to be key figures in helping NASA launch a rocket into space, and more importantly, orbit the Earth in a capsule,...
Tax files, employee records, emails; they’re all a part of the day-to-day operations of running a business. Some of you might want to hang on to them for later reference, some you might feel like casually tossing them aside once you’re done with them, but despite these gut instincts, businesses nevertheless need to remain...
Dell made a splash at the 2017 SXSW festival, hosting an interactive 4-day pop-up called “The Experience” which allowed visitors to explore the latest Dell innovations, including virtual reality, security, open source, entrepreneurship, and creativity. Attendees interacted with cutting-edge technology related to music, video, and gaming, and listened to thought-provoking sessions like “How VR Could Change the...
Issuing payroll means more today than writing a check. It means navigating a complex set of websites to file various taxes, issuing checks, and maintaining employee and company records. Depending on how many employees you have, it could take a few minutes or a few hours each week to complete your company’s payroll. It...
