In an everchanging world with increasing advancements and inventions, there was one area that remained the same for nearly a hundred years: valves for reciprocating compressors. Most people don’t think of compressor valves, but they are critical for a number of things that touch our daily lives, including the oil...

Mobile apps are a part of our everyday lives. In fact, it’s hard to imagine what life was like before the smartphone. As apps continue to evolve, their roles are changing in how they impact our well-being. Fourdesire’s CEO, Wei-Fan Chan, talks about his journey and the future of mobile...

Corporations are complex social entities, whether they are establishing a social media presence or simply marketing a brand with which people will fall in love. How do their ideas catch fire?  What accelerates growth and customer acquisition? What makes employees passionate about the mission? We believe the answer lies in...

Have you ever had to land at an airport and struggle to find a way out? Or worse, your car broke down just when you were about to go to office? If yes, then you are in need for a reliable car rental service that would help you reach your...

I once heard Darren Hardy talk about asking a billionaire how he achieved everything he had. He went to his mansion and was ushered into the library filled with thousands of books. When the billionaire arrived, he was expecting a rather long conversion on all his secrets. Instead, he pulled...

Social media has become the go-to place for companies who want to make a connection with their customers. It’s where we engage with them, entertain them, hold contests, and basically make them fall in love with our brand. More importantly, it’s where we convert followers into customers. However, with so...

Everyone loves the idea of the new, out of nowhere winner or star. Yet you rarely hear about the decline of old organizations that perished because of a stubborn refusal to adapt.  Even stories about Sears, Kmart, Circuit City and others lack the appeal and motivation of the new digital...

The universal search for meaning has entered the workplace at full throttle. Today’s employees see themselves as free agents in search of an authentic connection. They want more from work than simply a means for ensuring their basic needs are met. They have other needs to satisfy -- the need...

How many chefs do you know own a failed restaurant? How many wannabes’ have you heard of that started their own business, and quickly bit the big one a few years later? The difference between failure and success these days—in any industry, regardless of your intent—is a fine line, that...

When weighing the importance of value and income, I would argue that focusing on value drives all other positive outcomes. When evaluating whether or not you your company has value, I like to measure “Attractiveness” and “Readiness.” I do this with a Common Sense Scoring methodology to develop a metric...

In this era of digital technologies, the branded applications of leading banks and most popular airlines have hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of selected consumers. In 2014, Chase said that it has 17.2 million active mobile applications users. Now, they have many applications, including TripAdvisor, SeatGuru, City Guides, GateGuru...

In today's time, everyone wants to earn as much as they can. To live our life the way we want, we need money, for which we are even ready to work for a nine to five job. Still, at times, it's not enough, and we look for other ways to...

Interview with entrepreneur Ananya Birla. Please tell us about yourself: I am an entrepreneur and singer-songwriter. My start-up journey began at age 17. I was keen to enable and empower other women in my home country of India to be self-sustainable and fulfil their potential as businesspeople. So I founded...

Retailers would be wise to heed the motto of House Stark: Winter is coming. And with the colder weather comes the holiday season retail boom. Most retailers agree that the time to prepare is now.   A recent survey of 564 retailers by j2 Global found that a one-third of retailers that...

Blaze Pizza’s rapid growth is a manifestation of the dictum that the right execution and synergy in strategy planning, marketing, and operation is the elixir for business success. Through its feat, it has demonstrated an almost textbook-perfect example to the business world. Before Blaze appeared on the scene in 2011,...