(This column originally appeared in the Inquirer) According to an end-of-year report from research firm Pitchbook, venture capital investments globally rose 5.4% in 2024 to $386.5…
Gene MarksApril 1, 2025
(This column originally appeared in the Inquirer) Sales of businesses are picking up, according to the quarterly Insight Report from BizBuySell, an online marketplace of businesses for sale.…
Gene MarksFebruary 12, 2025
(This column originally appeared in The Washington Times) Big Tech and Wall Street are freaking out about DeepSeek’s announcement this week that their AI modeling can…
Gene MarksJanuary 31, 2025
(This column originally appeared in The Guardian) Of all the businesses started just 10 years ago, only one-third are still in existence. That’s according to data from the…
Gene MarksDecember 8, 2024
(This column originally appeared in The Guardian) Some 91% of the 1,290 business owners recently surveyed by the employee scheduling software maker Homebase said that they were happy…
Gene MarksJuly 14, 2024
(This column originally appeared in The Guardian) Hating on office software is one of modern life’s favorite pastimes. Expenses, time off, hiring – every…
Gene MarksMay 12, 2024
(This column originally appeared in Entrepreneur) The good news is that, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, women-owned employer firms account for more than…
Gene MarksDecember 2, 2023
(This column originally appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer) Even as commercial lending rates have more than doubled in the last year, interest rates earned on…
Gene MarksJanuary 25, 2023
(This post originally appeared on Philly.com) So where’s the best place to spend your company’s technology budget next year? (more…)
Gene MarksDecember 9, 2019