They say first impressions are critical, and that certainly rings true when you’re pitching your company to investors. As a founder or CEO, your pitch is often the most important factor determining wh…

Despite all the upheavals of 2020, shares of many technology companies—particularly online-marketplace businesses—have continued to shine. Over the past 12 months, as of Nov 8th, the Battery Marketpla…

Even before COVID-19 upended the global economy in March, many consumer-marketplace businesses were facing a sort of reckoning. Too many of them had raised huge amounts of money from investors to fuel…

COVID-19 has disrupted learning and education for over 1 billion students globally, and I explored the implications to K-12 students in my previous post in this series. Higher ed students and adult le…

The world we’re living in now would have been unimaginable just a couple of months ago. Across the globe, the coronavirus is changing the way we live and work at breakneck speeds. The highest priority…

It’s clear that education in the U.S. is still in dire straits. We spend more than most other developed countries on education, yet our students have fallen behind in academic success. Educators lack …

Over 40 million players from 200 countries participated in the event–drawing 19,000 fans to a sold-out stadium in New York City over the course of three days. The gathering drew 2.3 million conc…