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- Double Your Revenue in 12 Months—Without Hiring More Staff
What if the next major leap in your business didn’t require adding headcount, overhauling systems, or working longer hours? What if you could double your revenue in the next 12 months—with the exact team you already have? It sounds like cl…
- If It’s Not Automated, It’s Not Scalable
If you’re still relying on manual tasks, repeated decisions, and human memory to run your business, you’re not scaling—you’re surviving. In today’s fast-moving, tech-powered economy, growth doesn’t happen because you hustle harder. It happ…
- Happy New Year - 2026
Happy New Year! We are excited with the year ahead. We have some amazing conversations coming up, with authors, CEO's, Entrepreneurs and great business leaders. Our focus this year is to help our future workforce with interesting subjects…
- **OH SHI(F)T! NOW WHAT?
How Kerryn Kathleen Kohl Is Rewriting the Rules of Leadership in the Age of AI** By Karl Woolfenden — BCN.News Time is moving faster than ever—or at least it feels that way. Information floods our feeds, workplaces are shifting beneath our…
- CYGNVS (pronounced Sig-nus) and the Future of Cyber Resilience: A Conversation with CEO Arvind Parthasarathi
When a cyberattack strikes, chaos often follows. Systems shut down, communications collapse, and leadership scrambles to understand what’s happening. Yet, amid the turmoil, one fact is clear: prevention alone is no longer enough. That’s th…
- Redefining Trust: Oleria CEO Jim Alkove on the Future of Identity Security
Why adaptive identity, dynamic trust, and cultural alignment are shaping the next era of enterprise cybersecurity. By Karl Woolfenden A New Era of Identity Cybersecurity has always been an arms race—attackers innovate, defenders scramble t…
- Gomboc’s Ian Amit: Fixing the Cloud Security Gap with Deterministic AI
By Karl Woolfenden | BCN.news Cloud adoption has transformed modern enterprises, but it has also introduced unprecedented complexity. As organizations scale across multiple providers and hundreds of services, the promise of agility often c…
- Identity Hygiene in the Age of AI: A Conversation with SPHERE CEO Rita Gurevich (Please Excuse Background Noise)
As organizations prepare for the challenges of the coming year, cybersecurity continues to dominate boardroom agendas. At the forefront of this discussion is identity hygiene —a discipline that ensures enterprises understand, monitor, and…
- Caris Life Sciences: Redefining Cancer Care Through Precision Medicine
The new season of Business Class News ’s Race to the Start Line podcast launched with a conversation that was both deeply personal and profoundly forward-looking. Host Karl Woolfenden sat down with two leaders from Caris Life Sciences — Dr…
- Be Different: Escape the Competition, Create Value, and Change the Game
Be Different: Escape the Competition, Create Value, and Change the Game by Marty Strong is a business and leadership guide that challenges conventional thinking and encourages individuals and organizations to embrace innovation and creativ…
- Sociable.AI: Revolutionizing Digital Communication and Engagement
Karl spoke to Thomas Noh, the Founder of Sociable AI and they have an indepth conversation about his journey to founding the company and his vision of how his technology is enhancing social media engagements for brands and companies. Socia…
- The Business of Art - The Power behind Innovation and Creativity
Last year (2023) a conversation about creativity and innovation around art started about a great artist. The Picasso Celebration 1973-2023: 50th anniversary of the death of Pablo Picasso. This celebration triggered the desire to bring the…
- Early Learning Engagement with Students Creates Skills For Life
Karl spoke to Matt Frankenbery, CEO of Pitsco Education and Eric Simmons, Director of Sales of Pitsco Education in our continuing series of segments with STEM in Schools and Eduardo Galindo. Learn More: https://www.bcn.news/stem-in-schools…
- The Ultimate STEM Ecosystem
We are proud to be a partner with STEM in Schools and Summa Caussa to help educate you on the ULTIMATE Ecosystem that is available to organizations and corporations to participate in. We have spoken to hundreds of corporate executives and…
- The Foundation of Success for Students
BCN News has partnered with STEM in Schools and in our first in our series of conversations Karl speaks with STEM in Schools president Eduardo Galindo, Dee Memon, from Kids Robotics Academy and Max Ringleheim of Infento, North America. The…
- Prepare for Tomorrow: How Intuit ProConnect Tax Eases the Burden of 2025 Tax Changes and Staffing Challenges
Karl is always talking to subject matter experts about how they can help companies grow. Karl had a great conversation with Jim Buffington, a leading expert in future-ready tax software and innovative accounting technology with Intuit, and…
- Short Term Rental Business Long Term Benefits - Be Compliant
With inflation coming in hot in the last PCE report, the outlook for Fed cuts in the second half of 2024 is getting more bleak by the minute. Rather than selling, homeowners are rethinking their money-making strategies and are entering the…
- Plan. Review. Execute.
- The Importance of BLiesure. Work-Life Balance Traveling
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- Travel last minute and discover amazing destinations
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- Chemistry Can Be Fun
Creating fun and accessible chemistry stories has been a labor of love for Colleen as a retired University of Arizona chemistry professor and author of a series of kid’s chemistry comic books. In 2023, the PBS short documentary, “Comic Boo…
- F1 In Schools - An International Program Making Local Impact
- The Science of Culture - Its all in the Brain
Karl talks to Michael Steiner, Marty Strong and Dr. Jens Hartmann in our NEW series Masters of Disruption, which was the brain child of Marty Strong who is a Board Member of BEST Robotics. Our spotlight shines on Dr. Jens Hartmann who is a…
- Masters of Disruption Series: Be Different, Embrace Creativity and Innovate
In this new series from BEST Robotics, Masters of Disruption, we bring some of the greatest minds from Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) to hear their take on how students, and the future workforce are working togethe…
- Education in the Fast Lane with F1 In Schools
- The Many Ways to Integrate an Acquisition
Acquisition integrations are when the parent company takes over the target (acquired business), right? Well… not exactly. There are different approaches used to merge, or integrate an acquisition. Here’s an overview of them, looking at it…
- Communication Planning for SMB Integrations
You’ve completed an acquisition, have an integration plan ready to go, and Day One has arrived: you’re ready to tell the world about the deal and the bright new future. Let’s tell everyone, right? Not so fast… not everyone wants to hear th…
- I’ve Just Bought a Company – Now What?
When you acquired a business, you had an intention, a strategy, of what you wanted to do with it. For example, you wanted take advantage of a very specialized team and the product that they develop, so that you can increase sales revenue.…
- Start Your Sales Engines
Karl talks about the importance of pre-qualifying your sales prospects, and creating intelligent lead campaigns to maximize your closing efficiencies
- Integration Is The Key
- The Importance of Planning
- Business Resources Under One Roof
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- Business Sunrise - Gods Chosen Select Academy
- Business Resources in Rural America - Where Are They?
In this weeks segment, Karl talks to Terry Toomey on the status of business resources that are designed to help businesses grow and thrive, especially in rural America.
- Growing and Scaling A Business
Business Class News has partnered with The Industry Hub to help new and existing businesses grow and scale. Each month in 2023, BCN will showcase businesses that are either growing or just launching. The Industry Hub will share tips and ad…
- New Horizons - Giving Children The Help They Need
Karl spoke to Janie Bordner, Executive Director of New Horizons and talked about the amazing vision and mission of the organization. Janie talks about their goals, and objectives and also about the amazing Celebrity Chef Smackdown event th…
- Where ideas for Tech sustainability connect and grow
Entrepreneurs designing solutions utilizing technology can get feedback, recognition and $20K from Tech Titans and enterprise companies on the cutting edge. In a new Grand Challenge, entrepreneurs submit an application which will be judged…
- What is the purpose of a board? [Segment Extract]
In this segment extract Don Springer talks about the purpose of a board. You have got a board and you are doing a good job, but how do you raise our professionalism as board directors? How do we improve board composition? How do we focus o…
- The Importance of Corporate Governance - More Than Ever!
We’ve got a board and we’re doing a good job, but how do we raise our professionalism as board directors? How do we improve board composition? How do we focus on strategic vs. operational issues? How do we refine our board succession plans…
- Vision and Commitment - Part One
In this segment of Link'd AM we focus on philanthropy and how non-profits can really benefit from having a team working with them to realize the potential.
- Monetarize Your Existing Assets - Borrow is the Answer
- Balancing Student Life and Entrepreneur Passion - Seun Suberu
The SMU Cox Graduate Entrepreneurship Club, founded in 2000, is a student-led organization dedicated to promoting innovation within the SMU community. The Cox Graduate Entrepreneurship club fosters opportunities for student club members to…
- The Threat is Real. Protect Your Data. Today.
Karl speaks with David Vincent, VP Product Strategy and Customer Engagement at Appsian, a Global ERP Security platform that monitors various levels of threat detection, controls and ensures that its customers are audit ready to be complian…
- Book Review: Be Visionary - Author Marty Strong
Be Visionary: Strategic Leadership in the Age of Optimization is a self-help, business leadership book that demonstrates to existing and aspiring leaders the positive impact of applying flexibility, creativity and decisiveness to achieve r…
- Is Your Cloud Infrastructure Secure? A Cybersecurity Conversation.
The White House recently urged private companies to bolster their cyber defenses, citing evolving intelligence suggesting the Russian government is exploring “options for potential cyberattacks” targeting U.S. critical infrastructure. Karl…
- Launching Businesses with the Support of a Community
Karl talks with Valecia Harris, the current President of the Cox Graduate Entrepreneurship Club, and they talk about the SMU Business Accelerator Program. Both Business Class News and kNEXTis are proud to be media sponsors of the program.…
- Humans Working In Harmony with Technology - The New Supply Chain Solution
Karl spoke with Finch Fulton, the VP of Policy and Strategy at Locomation, and they had a fascinating conversation around their business model, and how it fits with the topics Business Class News has been showcasing - The Future of Our Wor…
- The Future of Engineering - The Future Of Our Workforce
On this segment of Link'd AM, Karl talks with Mike Bright, Ph.D. who is Professor and Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Grove City College in Grove City, PA. Grove City is a small (2500 students), Christian, liberal arts coll…
- Don't Just Talk About It- Do It