STEVE WODA'S BLOG

We all know how important trust is. Some guy in a clean uniform and a firm handshake approaches you, you feel pretty good. Some creep in...

A driver in the next lane is moving his lips. Is he on a hands-free cellphone? Talking to someone in the car? To himself? Singing along...

For early stage companies, angel investment can be an attractive funding option, says James Hunt, angel investor and adjunct professor at...

Do you know your children's friends? Sure, you may meet some of them when they come over to play Dead Rising 2 or work on homework with...

In 2009, Steve Woda and his brother Tim dreamed up a new company: an Internet-based service that would help inform parents about how to...

While Facebook and Twitter are popular sites for making friends, teens have also seen social media’s unfriendly side — 88 percent of them...

"At what age should I let my child join Facebook?" This is a question that countless parents have asked my collaborators and me. Often,...

Scalable pricing is a powerful tool to grow revenue in a SaaS or software business. It allows you to capture more of the revenue that...

Do your kids use the “invitation” feature on Facebook to spread the word about parties and events with their friends? If so, make sure...

At the beginning of August, Betabeat began talking about a coming crunch for seed stage companies in New York. We believe that the bubble...

If you read the Wall Street Journal, you could be forgiven for thinking that the venture-capital market is starting to crack at the...

When you ask a successful entrepreneur how they did it, you are almost guaranteed to hear them cite “luck” as a prominent factor. Why?...

Is it ever ok to fire your customers? Netflix increased price increased price by 60%. They are projected 1 million losses of customers...

It's rare to see someone get worked up about plywood. Much less a four-star general. But plywood, yes, those simple sheets of...

The concept of innovation has been especially trendy at business school over the last decade, with business schools launching everything...

There are roughly 265,000 active individual angel investors. If you want to go the route of tapping an angel network — a group made up of...

So you have the next great technology business idea, but you don't have a background in programming. You'll need to recruit a programmer...

Real leadership is about real stories.  This isn’t a study of real “world leaders” but instead a story about some “real world” leaders....