Pedro Hernandez

Dropboxis dead simple to use if you’re a consumer. If you’re an IT administrator#151;or a small business owner who wants to manage and secure her company’s content on Dropbox—things can get a little more complex. Today, the San Francisco-based cloud file sync and share pioneer took the wraps off AdminX, both an internal initiative and […]

It may come as a shock, but not every entrepreneur wants to be the next Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey or Bill Gates. Sure, these founders have become influential figures and attained massive financial success. Yet most small business owners would be perfectly happy toiling away until retirement age, and perhaps beyond, without billions of dollars […]

One of the biggest challenges of getting a small business off the ground or taking the next steps toward growth is getting financed. Sure, business owners can turn to banks and to a growing number of alternative lenders, but those financial products often come saddled with a time-consuming and bewildering application process, onerous terms, exorbitant […]

Forget keeping up with the Joneses, just keeping up with today’s technology is stressful and expensive enough. Small business owners often feel overwhelmed, causing them to cling to old, familiar technologies. That’s a mistake, according to Brian Casazza, CIO of Vistage Worldwide, a San Diego-based executive coaching organization with more than 21,000 members. [Don’t miss […]

When it comes to protecting against today’s hacks and malware, the cards are decidedly stacked against small businesses. “There are more cyber-threats out there in the world than ever before,” said Peter Tsai, an IT analyst at Spiceworks, best known for its network monitoring software and professional IT community, in a recent interview with Small […]

Cloud-based business software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings like Salesforce, SugarCRM, and Microsoft Dynamics have helped make customer relationship management (CRM) more attainable for small and midsized businesses (SMB). Boutiques, coffee shops, spas, and all manner of small companies can now collect and analyze customer data like never before. This allows companies to interact with their customers in […]

Today’s entrepreneurs undeniably embrace the cloudand run their businesses on go-anywhere smartphones and tablets, at least in part. With the ability to trade documents across town (or the country) in the blink of an eye and send invoices from the breakfast table, the days of traditional office equipment are numbered, right? [Related: Cloud Computing Helps […]

It takes more than a solid business plan and gumption to succeed in business nowadays. Growing your company in a competitive businesses landscape—and attracting interested investors—requires a solid footing in technology. As ephemeral as the term “cloud computing” sounds, it’s one of the most concrete foundations you can lay for your business, according to Kristina […]

Complexity and running a human resources (HR) operation go hand-in-hand, a reality that small business owners quickly discover when their employee headcount grows. Whether they tackle HR themselves or dedicate staff to managing their employees’ pay, time, and benefits, HR has become synonymous with incomprehensible forms, confusing benefits packages and glacially slow approvals processes. Zenefits, […]

Need a small business website? (Hint: if you don’t have one, you need one). Wix already makes it possible for a small business to establish an online presence without having to learn a single shred of code. [Related: Nearly Half of U.S. Small Businesses Don’t Have a Website] Now, the company has gone a step […]

The grades are in, and they’re not the type that proud parents stick on their refrigerators for the entire world to see. Responding to a new survey released today by Insight Enterprises, 47 percent of small businesses ranked the technologies that their organizations rely on for their day-to-day work. The result: they gave their IT […]

Freelancing can be liberating, but with that freedom and flexibility comes a major downside. “When you’re an employee at a traditional company, you get the benefits stack,” said Gabriel Garza, co-founder and chief technology officer of Everlance, a San Francisco-based technology startup, regarding the tax, health, and retirement help typically offered by employers. They’re more […]