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getty Pitching investors can make or break your business. It’s one of the best ways to secure funding, raise capital, and grow your company, but to be successful it has to be done right. Your pitch has to be well-crafted, compelling, and relevant to the investor if you hope to close the deal. I spoke […]
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. For most businesses, marketing is a practical necessity. It’s the only viable strategy to increase your brand visibility, attract more people to your brand and ultimately grow the business. But let’s face it; marketing is expensive. Sure, you could reduce what you spend on marketing directly. You […]
David Gandy Wellwear is the male supermodel’s first foray outside of brand collaborations in 20 … [+] years David Gandy Wellwear After five minutes chatting with a flat-capped David Gandy, it felt like I’d known him for years. I have, of course, in the sense that most people would recognize the face behind Dolce & […]
As far as I know, Bob never came up with innovative ideas or suggested groundbreaking initiatives. He never volunteered to work in other departments or take on formal or informal leadership roles. He never spoke — much less spoke up — in meetings. Bob flew as under the radar as was possible to fly. Bob worked […]
Homeownership has long been one of the biggest levers for wealth-building. For lower-income families, this critical component of the American Dream has become more and more unattainable with the increasing unaffordability of homes. This is the problem Divvy is solving. Divvy is the first real estate platform that helps families save for a down payment […]
Yugabyte, the company behind the distributed Structured Query Language (SQL) database YugabyteDB, today announced that it raised $188 million in a series C round, bringing the company’s total raised to $291 million with a $1.3 billion valuation. CEO Bill Cook says that the capital will be used to further grow Yugabyte’s field and engineering teams […]
Phishing, a type of social engineering where an attacker sends a message designed to trick a victim into revealing sensitive information or installing malware or ransomware, is on the rise. According to recent research from Proofpoint, 75% of organizations around the world experienced a phishing attack in 2020 — and 74% of attacks targeting U.S. businesses […]
Employees, especially when new to their positions, often need guidance to be successful in their work. However, too much direction can be less like helpful and constructive feedback and more like micromanagement. This, in turn, can have a negative impact on an employee’s work performance and mental health, and they may begin to feel less […]
While they are mostly optimistic about the state of the economy, executives are still laser-focused on the pandemic and its related effects. Nearly half (49 percent) of them believe the Delta variant and Covid-19 had the biggest impact on their businesses this year with other coronavirus-related factors — including the Great Resignation and the pandemic’s effect […]
At this stage of the pandemic, it’s surprising to exactly no one that spending lots of time on Zoom can be exhausting. The problem is so common that it even has a catchy name — Zoom fatigue — and an avalanche of articles suggesting fixes and workarounds. What’s often less well understood is that not everyone […]
We’ve all seen Youtube stars who are broke in real life, or Tik Tok darlings who amass an enormous following, just to find out that they’ve created another job for themselves simply making content with no return. Creating an audience is no small feat – it takes a lot of work, effort, planning and time. […]
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Hijacking is one of the many famous attacks hackers deploy to interfere with content delivery networks (CDNs). Hackers may also be capable of interfering with cloud hosting providers. Recently, almost all major cloud service providers like Google, Amazon and GoDaddy have become victims of […]
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Individual venture capital companies receive more than 1,000 proposals a year and are primarily interested in businesses that require an investment of at least $250,000, as stated in Embroker. However, according to the same source, only 1% of startups turn out to be the next Uber, Airbnb, Slack or […]
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Consumer electronics stands as one of the biggest industries that showcase technological advancements most clearly. Today, most people have devices in their homes that would have only been available to the biggest research laboratories and the ultra-wealthy in the most recent past. As technological capability continues to grow, […]
This story originally appeared on Zacks Northfield Bancorp (NFBK) came out with quarterly earnings of $0.33 per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $0.28 per share. This compares to earnings of $0.17 per share a year ago. These figures are adjusted for non-recurring items. – Zacks This quarterly report represents an earnings surprise of […]