It was a supersized Monday...

Entrepreneur Lisa Nicole Bell dished the three secrets to supersizing your business in the new economy. Alexandra Tooley confessed her surprise at discovering she's a social media introvert, but thank goodness that introverts can be just as productive as extroverts… Read the rest

Saba Gul, the co-founder and Executive Director of Business and Life Skills School (BLISS), talks about her amazing social enterprise and the work she is doing to empower young girls in Pakistan:

It all began with a girl who wanted to be a boy.

Unlike… Read the rest

When entering the workplace, you often find yourself playing a whole different ballgame from your life and interactions at school, home and other gathering places. And every work culture is different.

Have you found yourself going out of your way to adapt and change your… Read the rest

Ideas are a dime a dozen, but acting on the best ones can take you far. Below are a few tips to help you recognize the opportunities all around and make them work for you.

1. 10 Tips for Social Media Introverts, Smartblogs.

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When I first heard we were supporting the Unreasonable Institute, I’ll admit, it sounded a bit like an incubator on steroids. The website proclaims that they “accelerate the world’s most unreasonable entrepreneurs,” which intrigued me. So, I went to the source – and had a fascinating conversation… Read the rest

After the ubiquitous post-college relationship with unemployment, I was lucky enough to be given the opportunity to found a non-profit organization called FrontlineSMS:Credit, whose mission was to bring mobile money to microfinance institutions at the lowest cost possible.

As if to relieve me from the sweltering… Read the rest

I remember it like a high school favorite song.

I was 18 years old and I knew everything.

I had already started my first company, failed and was ready to do it again to make Zuckerberg's success look like peanuts.

I knew nothing about tech,… Read the rest

As a Gen Yer it is likely you've had the privilege of microwaving a Hot Pocket at some point. It's also likely you've experienced or reaped the repercussions of one.

While I can't vouch for what happens after eating a gooey sizzling hot meat mess… Read the rest

Last weekend, I went to a workshop on the Myers-Briggs framework. I take most of these personality assessments lightly, and when I found out that the assessment indicated I have a preference for introversion, I thought to myself: “Me? An introvert? No way!”

You could… Read the rest

Every business needs the right systems in place to grow beyond one person. This pieces offers 3 simple ways to super size your business in the new economy.