The most desirable career of the 21st century, with numerous advantages over other fast-growing occupations such as hospice carer and rickshaw driver, is being a billionaire. Prior to the incorporation of US Steel in 1901, the world didn’t have a single billion-dollar company, much less a billion-dollar individual. Today, more people than ever are becoming billionaires – 2,000 and counting have made the great leap upward, according to the “global wealth team” at Forbes. And the US’s hottest billionaire factory is located in the most hyped yet least understood swath of suburban sprawl in the world: Silicon Valley.

If you asked me why I gravitated to startups rather than work in a large company I would have answered at various times: “I want to be my own boss.” “I love risk.” “I want flexible work hours.” “I want to work on tough problems that matter.” “I have a vision and want to see it through.” “I saw a better opportunity and grabbed it. …” It never crossed my mind that I gravitated to startups because I thought more of my abilities than the value a large company would put on them. At least not consciously. But that’s the conclusion of a provocative research paper, Asymmetric Information and Entrepreneurship, that explains a new theory...

From crush to courtship to ghosting, an NZ Herald investigation tracks New Zealand’s relationship with a Facebook billionaire.

Some small and local vendors who work with Whole Foods say new fees are damaging their business and they're considering cutting ties.

Brands that fall under the same parent company have unique customer bases, branding, and personalities. Why should their help centers be any different?

Estonia is expected to get a 100-to-one-euro return on investment for its e-Residency program, which lets anybody start a business from afar. It is even planning to launch ‘estcoins,’ its own cryptocurrency.

Jeff Bezos is now the richest person of all time. That should put an Amazon smile on his face. The Amazon CEO's net worth reached $105.1 billion Monday, according to Bloomberg's billionaire tracker. That eclipses the record previously held by Microsoft founder Bill Gates. Forbes, the other major tracker of the net worth of the world's richest, put Bezos' net worth at a mere $104.4 billion.

The world we live in today is heavily dictated by the attention economy. There are far more stimuli in our average environment than there has ever been at any point in history. Our senses are constantly bombarded with noise. This is particularly prominent on the internet, where the amount of information and data produced continues to grow exponentially, but the digital reality is far from the only place where this is true.

Robert Farrigton started his blog in 2009 as a side hustle and worked on it during nights and weekends. Thanks to the blog, he was able to get out of his student loan debt in 3 years, buy a house, and eventually quit his day job at 33.

Creativity is often defined as the ability to come up with new and useful ideas. Like intelligence, it can be considered a trait that everyone—not just creative “geniuses” like Picasso and Steve Jobs—possesses in some capacity. It’s not just your ability to draw a picture or design a product. We all need to think creatively in our daily lives, whether it’s figuring out how to make dinner using leftovers or fashioning a Halloween costume out of clothes in your closet.

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Maybe it’s time to let the reader decide their truth.

An article explaining the profitability of Phone follow ups

For weeks we've been hearing about a top-level executive exodus and a lot of employee turnover at highly-funded human resources software startup Namely.

We haven't had a major new technology company in more than 10 years.

After a highly publicized corporate meltdown this spring, Uber is working to repair a culture that employees and observers say is aggressive, cutthroat, and demanding.

Malcolm Gladwell is well-known for his reference of the 10,000 Hour Rule - the principle that it takes 10,000 hours of practice to master a skill - but a few years ago I realised that there were a whole bunch of these 10,000 hour masters out there who'd written pretty detailed, yet distilled, advice on how to achieve mastery in their given art, and published it online. Sometimes even in the form of a "top 5" list, this knowledge was never more than a 20 second google search away, and literally gave you master-level insight. But then something happened.

Belkin founder Chet Pipkin is one of the most influential leaders in the tech industry, but the understated CEO is much more than a top California tech giant.

Philip Morris is all set to embark on a transformation by shifting its business to smoke-free products. According to the company’s sustainability report, the focus will be on replacing cigarettes with smoke-free products. This year, Philip Morris intends to allocate over 70% of its global R&D expense and 30% of commercial expenditure to smoke-free products.

In the midst of failure when you're feeling so shitty and so awful, how do you actually gain positivity and move forward?

I think that a lot of people believe that success — and the moment it finally happens — is a definable event. One day you’re average, and the next day you’re a massive success. In my experience, that’s not the case. It’s really just a slow, deliberate journey.

1. Change Happens, Adapt or Perish. 2. Engage with Everyone, But be Authentic. 3. Don’t be Paralyzed by Fear, Failure is the Not the End. 4. Do the Work.

The story of three of Australia's fastest growing startups - SafetyCulture, Vinomofo, and Canva - as they scale from garage offices to millions of users and worldwide impact. The New Hustle follows the personal journeys of the founders as they develop and iterate on their idea, attempt to bring it to market, raise capital, and face countless challenges along the way.

Dear Bubble App Team Members: Good news! In response to your “concerns” about our current open-plan creative campus, we are pleased to announce... By Alex Baia.

Richard Branson has revealed details of his long-running feud with Donald Trump, publishing a scathing letter he received from the then New York property mogul in 2004. Mr Trump wrote to the Virgin brand founder after he launched a short-lived programme, The Rebel Billionaire: Branson’s Quest for the Best, with a similar format to The Apprentice.

Cumulative Wealth of Top 10 Wealthiest Americans WITH College Degrees: $506.2 billion Cumulative Wealth of Top 10 Wealthiest Americans WITHOUT College Degrees: $350.2 billion The cumulative wealth of the top 10 billionaires with college degrees is 44.5% more than the cumulative earnings of those without degrees. On average, a college graduate with a bachelor's degree earned about $30,000 more per year than a high school graduate, or about $500,000 more over a lifetime

I’m constantly in doubt about pretty much everything. I’m even in doubt whether I should right this right here. Whether I should even have started writing this book right here. It took me 10 minutes to fight my doubts until I finally started writing this piece right here. Doubt is constantly following me wherever I go. Doubt paralyses. Doubt kills. And it eats you alive. Doubt and fear are best friends.

Read this if you're thinking about quitting. I personally think about quitting three or four times a month. But, I've found a way to NOT quit. Here's how.

Spring of my junior year, I effectively dropped out of college. I’d started working on a startup, raised some money, wanted to be able to pursue it full time, but college was in the way. I knew the heroic myths of other college dropouts pursuing starting their own companies and figured that seemed like the “thing to do” in the situation. College had never “fit” for me. I hated lectures, realized grades were meaningless, was already getting good at learning things on my own, and wanted to have the freedom to teach myself marketing among other skills.

So you turn 50 this year, right? Or you just turned 50. It’s so interesting to me that people can’t project or understand where the market’s moving, aka, in this scenario that “we,” as 40–50–60 year-olds are going to live dramatically longer and healthier than your parents’ and grandparents’ generation.

It doesn’t matter how good your strategy is, if you’re not skilled at what you do, that strategy won’t take you very far.

“Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life.” I’m not sure who said that. Like all quotes that we don’t know the origin of, it’s attributed to Confucius — but that’s probably inaccurate. In any case it’s truly one of the worst cliches I’ve ever come across, and one that causes people no end of grief. It’s pretty popular, and quoting it when discussing life choices has been in vogue for a while.

Ivanka worked with a Soviet-connected salesman to sell hotel units. He fled. Trump got rich. Where are they now? In the spring of 2007, a succession of foreigners, many from Russia, arrived at Panama City airport to be greeted by a chauffeur who whisked them off in a white Cadillac with a Donald Trump logo on the side. 

Recently, while at a speaking event, someone in the audience asked me the following question: “Have you ever seen someone come close to breaking through but then not succeeding? What is the difference between those who make and those who don’t?”