The Art of Effective Networking for Entrepreneurs

August 25, 2024August 25, 2024Francesco Pecoraro

Effective networking is crucial for entrepreneurial success, focusing on building meaningful, mutually beneficial relationships rather than simply expanding your contact list. Quality over quantity is key—connecting with individuals who share your goals and values leads to stronger, more valuable networks. Authenticity and active listening are essential in building trust and rapport, while leveraging social media and attending in-person events can enhance your networking efforts. Ultimately, networking is a lifelong practice that can significantly impact your business’s growth and success when approached with genuine intent.

5 Tips To Improve Strategic Thinking As a Leader

September 3, 2022August 30, 2022Francesco Pecoraro

The future is coming fast. In this ever-changing, chaotic business environment, leaders must be prepared to think seriously about the future of their organizations. Leaders must be able to activate and focus resources and energy on the priorities that will ensure future business success. Unfortunately, today leaders struggle to become more strategic because society is […]

5 Tips To Improve Empathy As a Leader

August 27, 2022Francesco Pecoraro

Great leaders are able to create conditions to promote happiness, commitment and performance. To do that these leaders use a mix of different skills, and empathy is one of the most important ones. Empathy is about being able to understand someone else’s needs. You don’t necessarily have to agree with your people but you should […]

5 Tips To Build Trust As a Leader

May 15, 2022May 15, 2022Francesco Pecoraro

Some leaders are able to inspire people to work together to achieve something greater than themselves. These leaders build high-trust environments where people are supportive and motivated to produce the highest quality of work possible. Whereas, a lack of trust can create toxic environments where caustic, disrespectful and rude attitudes and behaviors are tolerated. It’s […]

5 Tips To Improve Persuasion Skills As a Leader

April 23, 2022March 6, 2023Francesco Pecoraro

Effective leaders know that persuasion is a core aspect of communication that is required to build strong relationships and performance in business. Persuasion in business is more than just getting other people to be open to opinions and beliefs. Leaders often have to convince their people to follow new initiatives, implement difficult changes, or […]

3 Tips to Successfully Lead Remote Teams

February 12, 2022May 3, 2022Francesco Pecoraro

Many large organizations and small companies today have learned how to work from home. There are some employees who are waiting to go back to the office, and some others who shifted toward utilizing remote work strategies. No matter the type of company you work for, the ability leaders have to lead virtual teams is […]

How Amazing Leaders Create a Positive Culture

January 13, 2022May 3, 2022Francesco Pecoraro

Companies that have toxic cultures are characterized by low productivity. These companies have employee relationships and attitudes that gradually go downhill. Usually, in toxic workplace problematic individuals are aggressive and their personal attacks against others damage the morale. As a result, these companies end up losing profits because work culture is strongly related to productivity. […]

How Great Leaders Retain The Best People

January 9, 2022May 1, 2022Francesco Pecoraro

Successful leaders say that people make companies successful and not the other way around. These leaders believe that having the right people in the right place at the right time represents their greatest competitive advantage and as a consequence they act in a specific way in order to retain their precious people. Many leaders assume […]

Mighty invites kids to open a 21st century lemonade stand

July 3, 2021July 3, 2021Francesco Pecoraro

Mighty helps young entrepreneurs start and grow their own businesses. Thanks to Mighty, each kid will master the tools of business and harness the power of social impact. Mighty recently closed on $6.5 million in seed funding led by Animo Ventures, with participation from Maveron, Humbition, Sesame Workshop, Collaborative Fund and NaHCO3, a family office. […]

Facebook extends Shops to WhatsApp

June 22, 2021June 22, 2021Francesco Pecoraro

“More than 1 billion people use Marketplace each month, so we’re making it easy for businesses to bring their Shops into Marketplace to reach even more people,” Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post. Today CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced some updates that are coming to Facebook products: Shops on WhatsApp and Marketplace, Shops Ads, and Instagram […]

Google is going to empower people

June 22, 2021June 22, 2021Francesco Pecoraro

Google is implementing two changes in order to provide consumers with more professional-level tools. The first one is that Google Chat and Google Meet are replacing Hangouts. This means that existing Hangouts chats should be carried over, and in part this will be just a rebranding exercise: Activate Google Chat in Gmail, install the app […]

Small quadcopter drone equipped with a 4K camera allows you to create brilliant aerial images and video

June 19, 2021June 22, 2021Francesco Pecoraro

The Ninja Dragon Vortex 9 RC has a 6-axis gyroscope for a smooth, stable flight and a headless design that doesn’t require reorienting in midair before heading off in the desired direction. It is able to sync easily with a smartphone for even the most intricate flying using the included controller. There’s also a one key […]

Porsche will choose the best soundtrack while you drive

June 18, 2021June 22, 2021Francesco Pecoraro

Porsche has developed a prototype system that plays custom, original music to your driving, whether you’re on the open road or stuck in traffic. The “Soundtrack My Life” project works something like game music, amping up the intensity depending on the “acceleration, speed and centrifugal forces in the car,” according to Porsche. One advantage is […]

Spotify acquires Podz to build the world’s best podcast discovery experience

June 18, 2021June 22, 2021Francesco Pecoraro

Spotify has purchased a startup called Podz that could make it easier to find new podcasts to listen to on the platform. Podz chooses a clip using its machine learning model, which was trained on more than 100,000 hours of audio in consultation with journalists and audio editors. This acquisition marks yet another sign of […]

Anduril raises $450M to secure military bases and monitor borders

June 17, 2021June 17, 2021Francesco Pecoraro

The AI-powered defense company founded by tech iconoclast Palmer Luckey has landed a $450 million round of investment The company makes defense hardware, including long-flying drones and surveillance towers that connect to a shared software platform it calls Lattice. The technology can be used to secure military bases and monitor borders. Anduril co-founder and CEO […]

Bringg completed a series-E investment round of $100 million

June 16, 2021June 16, 2021Francesco Pecoraro

Bringg has built software to help retailers with last-mile logistics — specifically to manage, and in some cases even tap, people fulfilling deliveries. It has raised $100 million in a Series E round of funding and has confirmed that the funding values the company at $1 billion — representing a hike of about 4x on […]

A UK fintech, 10x future technologies, raises $187M to support old banks

June 16, 2021June 16, 2021Francesco Pecoraro

10x Future Texhnologies, a London-based fintech that helps larger, established banks build both next-generation services as well as tools to help their older services work more efficiently, has raised $187 million. 10x will be using the funds both to expand into new geographies like North America, as well as to continue building more technology for […]