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Venture capital drought leads to cap table chaos
After more than two years of venture capital retrenchment, startups that survived the battle are emerging as real busines...
Best Way to Unite America Is to Grow America's Economy
Uniting America starts with sparking economic growth, remembering when we fuel the economy it means there's plenty for everyone. When people have equal access to opportunities, education, jobs, and housing, they can make positive contributions...
Provenance Plays a Vital Role in Car Collecting
George Foreman in December closed out a highly successful auction of more than 50 automobiles collected over the former heavyweight champion’s career, both as a boxer and a home appliance entrepreneur. The auction was extremely lucrative for the ex-champ, vividly illustrating how important provenance — the history of who has owned something — can be in car collecting.
How AI Can Guide Introverts to Success in Professional Services
Artificial Intelligence, or AI, might be able to help introverts sell with less social discomfort and higher effectiveness, offering help for a challenge many accounting and law firm partners suffer with.
And just in time, too: This r...
Are Bill Gates' energy expectations for AI optimism or realism?
As both a major funder of climate change initiatives as well as one of the largest economic beneficiaries of Open AI, Bill Gates' claim that climate-focused concerns of AI energy usage are being overblown has been understandably met with some s...
A Private Equity Fund Bought Your Accounting Firm: Now What?
With one in three accounting firms set to be at least partially owned by private equity funds, it's likely that changes are coming to the accounting industry. And as new management shakes up how these firms operate, clients may find themselves...
What to Do When the IRS Audits You
The IRS has been dropping a new press release with an explicit threat to the bank accounts of successful Americans every other month or so. Their messaging sounds increasingly political, and high-income taxpayers would be foolish to ignore...
Rethinking Dam Infrastructure: Lessons From Minnesota Floods
If there's one lesson to be learned from Minnesota's recent floods, it's that it's time for the nation to begin rethinking its approach to critical infrastructure. In addition to physical improvements to high-risk infrastructure, technolo...
How to Thrive as an Entrepreneur Despite the Stress
Making the jump from a secure corporate job to entrepreneurship in our unpredictable economy is frightening. It can bring waves of anxiety, a restless mind at 3 a.m., self-doubt and a barrage of unanswerable questions about your choices and prior...
Are Hedge Funds Worth the Risk Today?
Michael Sonnenfeldt, the chairman of “ultra-high-net-worth” network Tiger 21, has declared that hedge funds are "dead as a doornail," as his members’ allocation dropped to just 2% — down 10 percentage points from 2008.
Are We About to Experience AI-Created Bionic Patent Trolls?
Facing a patent claim against its Auto Shift technol...
Politicizing ESG Investment Strategy Undermines Its Legitimacy
Political populism poses a fundamental threat to ESG investing, with laws being passed and battles being fought in multiple states that would...
If the AI Industry Doesn't Establish Methods to Protect Private Data, Someone Else Will
Whistleblowers from within the cloistered artificial intelligence community are sounding alarms. For example, a gr...
Rethinking Preparedness: Flooding Can Happen Anywhere
Severe flooding is shaking communities across the globe — whether it’s the millions of dollars in property damage in Michigan or through the loss of hundreds of lives in Rio de Janeiro. Floods are happening more often and in more unexpected places, and governments everywhere — regardless of their historical risk factors — need to use more advanced technology systems in order to keep citizens safe.
Yes, Your Car Is Spying On You. Here's What To Do About It.
Cars have come a long way since the old Ford Model T. With features such as blind-spot detection, automatic braking and collision avoidance, and...
Venture capital's AI love affair: A bubble waiting to pop?
We're experiencing a tale of two cities in the venture investing world for AI and non-AI companies. It's been the best of times for pure-play AI startups and those that could convince investors they were close enough to being one. It's been...
Patent Law Can't Keep Up With AI's Pace Of Change, Creating Massive Risk And Massive Opportunity
The leverage that AI can provide a startup or even a single entrepreneur, combined with the huge gray areas in IP law, means that new AI-assisted product and process innovations – and possibly even AI prompts themselves – could now be patentable.
How CEOs Should Handle Big Bets That Fail
Apple has quietly closed the book on its autonomous car project, having spent almost a decade and several billion dollars on the effort. But Apple’s failure with its big bet shouldn’t scare CEOs away from high profile gambles: rather, it underscores the importance of ensuring that big, ambitious projects align tightly with the company’s vision, mission and capabilities.