The pandemic has forced many small businesses to shut down for good, and unfortunately, the African-American business community has been the hardest hit. In 2020 alone, 41 percent of Black-owned ...
Topic: COVID-19
As the global health crisis of 2020 continues to play out, there have been many comparisons with the economic events of 2008. When the first wave of the pandemic hit ...
Human history is one of continuous innovation and increasing productivity. Sometimes there are bumps and sluggish periods of growth along the way, but our unique ability to make and improve ...
Not all companies have been exactly sailing through the pandemic, but those that are have something in common. Products like Zoom and Slack are surging in popularity not by pouring ...
COVID-19 drastically changed how non-essential businesses promote their products and services to their customers. Marketing strategies that may have been effective pre-COVID may no longer deliver the desired results now, ...
COVID-19 has been a challenge for businesses of all kinds. Many have had to readjust strategies and pivot business models to last. While it has been a trying time for ...
How authenticity at work affects business The Crunchbase “Female Founder Series,” is a series of stories, Q&As, and thought-leadership pieces from glass-ceiling-smashers who overcame the odds, raised funding, and are ...
In the era of COVID-19 and global lockdowns, most of us have been forced to adapt to living our lives remotely. All the essentials in our day-to-day lives such as ...
When the coronavirus emerged as a global crisis, nobody could have predicted the scale of economic devastation. Restaurants, entertainment, sports and brick-and-mortar retail have been hit especially hard, and many ...
When Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced in May that employees would be able to work from home—or from wherever they’d like—indefinitely, it marked a major change in the tech industry. ...
Will the lessons learned during the pandemic change how employers see remote work? While Twitter says its employees can work from home forever, and Facebook plans to shift half of ...
Infrastructure, while critical to nearly every part of our lives, is invisible to many of us. The most basic needs of communication, food and water, as well as the production ...
As has been said in many recent deal memos, the financial services industry is on the verge of the greatest revolution since the inception of electronic banking services. From my ...
In today’s uncertain world, the only constant we can rely on is change–everything is guaranteed to change over time. In the past few months, we have seen changes to the ...
Today, it seems that every major technology company doubles as a bank. In the past few years, we’ve seen the launch of Apple Card, Facebook’s Libra, Uber Money, Square Cash ...
While COVID-19 made its way across the globe, venture capital firms, venture capitalists and startups alike feared major venture funding slowdowns. A significant decrease in venture funding also spells trouble ...
The COVID-19 pandemic is set to wipe out the equivalent of 195 million jobs around the world. While the statistic is sobering, this large pool of job-seeking talent has the ...
The first half of 2020 has reshaped business globally, but it can be difficult for sales reps and sales leaders to fully understand or address the total impact as they ...
Burnout can exist in any vertical when someone is doing the same task over and over again at an unsustainable pace. While this feeling can come about at any time, ...
If I told you two years ago that you would hire graduates from the class of 2020 without meeting them in person and without them ever setting foot in your ...