I’m sitting here writing this article and I’m starting to find a little clarity. Starting to understand why this thing is so hard. This game of entrepreneurship. Shit, this game of life. It’s because the real answer is really found when you’re pulling from opposite directions. I’m sitting here wondering and I just return to the same question which is why? Why, why, why?

Everyone in the world is hoping for one thing. That nobody notices they don’t belong. Everyone in the world suffers from imposter syndrome sooner or later. I can guarantee you, no matter what stage you reach in your life, you’ll be desperately asking yourself how your peers are still ignorant to the fact that you don’t know what the fuck you’re doing.

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

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.

There is a very popular myth in the field of social media marketing that many buy into because it’s a simple way to shift the blame from yourself onto the monetization dynamics of the platforms you use. That myth is the belief that as long as your product, service, or idea is good enough, it will automatically gain massive traction on social media if only you’re consistent with your content output. “Built it and they will come.” In a perfect world this would very well be the case, but as we all know, consumers today are more withholding with their attention than they’ve ever been at any given point in history.

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.

Let’s get something important out of the way: It’s okay to have fears. Actually, it can be good to have fears. Especially when it comes to any kind of entrepreneurial venture.

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.

These youngsters go out to store openings or restaurant launch events, get access to fashion shows and early taste sessions. Not just that, they even get brand endorsements based on their number of followers. Blogging has turned into a serious business.

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.

Self doubt can cripple a business. Learning to deal with it can help build a better one.

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.

Say it with me. The rules do not matter.

Dollar Shave Club, a start-up built on the idea of inexpensive razors, has sold itself for a rich price. Unilever, the European consumer goods giant, said late on Tuesday that it had reached an agreement to buy the five-year-old company. While the financial terms were not disclosed, Unilever paid about $1 billion in an all-cash deal, according to people briefed on the matter. The transaction is a high point for digital commerce start-ups like Dollar Shave Club, which have gained popularity for coming up with new ways to sell consumer goods...

Is the head of Y Combinator fixing the world, or trying to take over Silicon Valley? One balmy May evening, thirty of Silicon Valley’s top entrepreneurs gathered in a private room at the Berlinetta Lounge, in San Francisco. Paul Graham considered the founders of Instacart, DoorDash, Docker, and Stripe, in their hoodies and black jeans, and said, “This is Silicon Valley, right here.”

On the 16th episode of the 7th season of Saturday Night Live, Eddie Murphy threatened to kill a lobster. “You want to save Larry the Lobster,” Murphy told the viewers, “dial 1-900-720-1808. If you want to kill him, dial 1-900-720-1909. Now, unless you call in to save him, we’re going to boil Larry’s little butt right here on national television…The phone company is going to charge you 50 cents, but isn’t it worth 50 cents to save Larry’s life? Or look at it this way: Isn’t it worth half a buck to see us boil Larry on TV?”

On the road with Microsoft's Satya Nadella on his traveling revival show.

Napoleon Hill is the most famous conman you’ve probably never heard of. Born into poverty in rural Virginia at the end of the 19th century, Hill went on to write one of the most successful self-help books of the 20th century: Think and Grow Rich.

Nvidia cofounder Chris Malachowsky is eating a sausage omelet and sipping burnt coffee in a Denny's off the Berryessa overpass in San Jose. It was in this same dingy diner in April 1993 that three young electrical engineers--Malachowsky, Curtis Priem and Nvidia's current CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang--started a company devoted to making specialized chips that would generate faster and more realistic graphics for video games.

What if there was a specialized collaboration platform for unemployed people … a business ecosystem to inspire them to ‘unleash their creative power’ ? Alarming rates of unemployment for many countries, pessimistic predictions regarding the global workforce transformation under the lights of the Artificial Intelligence revolution. Unemployed people, in tens of millions across the globe, can be seen as an enormous manpower which the ‘economic system’ fails to use: talented people, senior industry professionals, domain experts, enthusiastic graduates, scientists, entrepreneurial youth and many more classes of unemployed people who are...

"Increased productivity leads to more wealth, cheaper goods, greater spending power and ultimately, more jobs," said the Wall Street Journal in the latest entry in the counterpoint to articles declaring the end of work. People should trust things will work out and know the weight of historic experience is on their side, although no one really explains how. Financial services companies are required to note that previous performance is no promise of future gains.

For many, the Christmas holiday in New York City finally comes to life when the sidewalks sprout evergreens.

Outspoken former pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli said the national outrage over drug pricing was blown out of proportion and heightened by the U.S. presidential election, although he conceded he could have predicted the blowback better. “In terms of regret, maybe not seeing that as acutely would’ve been a minor regret,” Shkreli said during an interview on Bloomberg TV Friday. “But because the price increase has stuck, so to speak, I don’t really, that’s the main mission...

Toshiba shares fell 20% on Wednesday after the firm warned that its US nuclear business may be worth less than previously thought. The slump was large enough for trading in stocks of the Japanese industrial giant to be automatically halted. Shares had already fallen 12% on Tuesday, after reports of the likely write-down began circulating.

We’ve decided to make some major changes at Medium.

In a country in which wine making is still predominantly a white male profession, South Africa’s first black woman winemaker, Ntsiki Biyela, is a pioneer.

Snap Inc, owner of popular messaging service Snapchat, made many of its financial details public for the first time on Thursday, as it prepared to raise up to $3 billion in an initial public offering in New York that is expected to come in March. The disclosure was Snap’s opening salvo in convincing investors that the company, which launched in 2012 as a free mobile app with disappearing messages, has come up with a sustainable business model despite increasing losses.

You already know about time "batching," but when those batch periods slide all over your schedule, they aren't much good to you.

Online grocery delivery startup Instacart Inc. has raised a $400 million round of venture funding, said people familiar with the deal. With the additional capital, the San Francisco-based company’s valuation has risen to $3.4 billion, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the matter isn’t public. The investment was led by Sequoia Capital, which had led an earlier round, the people said.

After almost a decade of food retail experiments with little success online, the e-commerce giant is embracing the physical stores it once shunned.

Bro C.E.O.s like the head of Uber will keep destroying companies until people stop paying them.

What to do when incremental change just won’t cut it. By Mikael Cho.

Juicero began in secret. The startup, a sort of Keurig for cold-pressed plant-water—which made headlines for the $120 million in venture capital it secured from the likes of Google and Kleiner-Perkins between 2013 and 2015.