Financial Eyes & Ears

Pravina Raghavan, New York District Director of the Small Business Administration, recommends you take advantage of free resources.

Aneesh Chopra, the first-ever CTO for the United States, is stepping down. Here are a few good people who could replace him. It sounds like perhaps the coolest title any American entrepreneur could have: Chief Technology Officer of the United States of America. And it turns out, the job is open. The White House announced [...]

News flash: Entrepreneurs are people too. And as with any group of people, it includes a few bad eggs–and some downright rotten ones. News flash: Entrepreneurs are people too. And as with any group of people, it includes a few bad—and downright rotten—eggs. Insider trading? Check. Forming a gambling ring? Check. Beating on innocent women? [...]

What do hyper-creatives, emergency room nurses, and CEOs have in common? Dr. Aaron Blackledge has identified a particular neuro-chemical pattern. Do you have “entrepreneur brain?” Aaron Blackledge doesn’t like to stand still. He possesses kind of mindset that is often too fidgety to stand tedious processes, such as attending lectures or writing papers to attain [...]

How Colleen Molter, founder of QED National, an IT staffing firm, survived the dot-com bubble and Sept. 11th, and other lessons.

Chained to your desk? I’ve been there. If you’re still stuck working for a giant company, you need to know these two things right now. I owe a lot to Corporate America. My mom single-handedly supported our family by working a corporate job for almost 30 years. It paid her a salary that afforded my [...]

The best and brightest stigmatize sales jobs. But they’re fundamental to the success or failure of small business. When I mention the word ‘sales’ to most people, it conjures up the idea of smarmy used car salesmen pushing shoddy cars or annoying telemarketers interrupting dinner to pitch services no one wants to buy. As a [...]

Leo Widrich, co-founder of the social media management tool Buffer, on how to get more out of your Tweets. If you love Twitter—and you also have a life—you probably use Buffer to schedule your tweets: To make announcements at a specific time, to send time-sensitive tweets like for limited-time offers, to communicate when your followers [...]