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7 Super Entrepreneurship Lessons from "Man of Steel"
Superman as an entrepreneur? Not exactly, but you just may walk away from "Man of Steel" with inspiration for your business.Over the weekend my wife and I and a friend saw Man of Steel--the latest reboot of the Superman franchise. Note: Spoilers below! If you haven't seen the movie yet, ...
Mark Suster: 'Silicon Valley Will Always Produce the Big Hits'
The seasoned VC says Silicon Valley will remain a tech hub for years, but Silicon Alley, with its focus on content, is paving the way for exciting changes.What's in a name? A lot, according to Mark Suster, founder and CEO of Build Online and an investor with the Los Angeles-based ...
Trucks Are Trendy (and Not Just for Food Anymore)
Businesses in all kinds of industries are going mobile and bringing their goods directly to customers.Mobile may be the new thing for businesses, but there's an old way to put a twist on the concept. Pack your business onto a truck. Although food trucks now have a reality show, forgoing ...
When to Invest in Biotech -- and When to Just Say No
Great research doesn't always lead to great medicine -- and sometimes forming a company can actually get in the way.Say you’re a healthcare entrepreneur. And say you meet a brilliant immunologist at the American Society of Clinical Oncology conference, and she has very exciting data demonstrating full tumor regression in ...
5 Productivity Strategies From the Mind of Richard Feynman
Nobel-prizewinning physicist Richard Feynman was an eccentric within the scientific community. But he sure got a lot done.In the book, Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!, Richard Feynman, a Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist, relates a story about an ant he found near his bathtub. Instead of squishing the bug, Feynman put ...
The Great Business Book Purge
I just dumped (and donated) 300 books. But the rest you'll have to pry from my cold, dead fingers.Two weeks ago, I dumped more than 300 business books.“Dumped” sounds harsh. The purge wasn’t as bloody as all that. Many were unbound galleys stamped with dire warnings not to quote, reproduce, ...
Home buyers, sellers and mortgage lenders gives thumbs up
NEW YORK (MainStreet) — What’s the key to a healthy housing market? Simple: a big supply of willing buyers matched by a big supply of willing sellers. Plus generous, easy-going lenders. Lenders, though still kind of stingy, are loosening the purse strings a bit, and those buyers and sellers are ...
Perception gap exists between employers and job-seekers
NEW YORK (MainStreet) — At perhaps a bad time in U.S. employment, it seems there’s a “perception gap” between what workers think they’re worth on the job and how employers see them.Analysis by Bryant & Stratton College with help from Wakefield Research from a survey among U.S. adults age 18 ...
4 Lessons Jeff Bezos Learned From Failure
If you examine Amazon's grocery delivery service, AmazonFresh, you can clearly see a strategy centered on failure.Only one father of the dot-com boom is still innovating today--Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos.Let's look at one of Bezos’ innovation initiatives; its grocery delivery service, AmazonFresh. E-groceries is a small, unprofitable market, but Bezos ...
The Next Big Thing? 5 Expert Predictions
At Bloomberg's Next Big Thing conference, industry thinkers talked about what they think will be the wave(s) of the future. Do you agree?What's the next biggest thing in technology? Depends on who you ask.A number of industry thinkers and innovators did some crystal ball-gazing Monday at Bloomberg's Next Big Thing ...
Mayor Bloomberg Wants Stanford Techies to Move to New York
You can't beat the nightlife or business opportunities, said Michael Bloomberg during his Stanford commencement speech Sunday. Translation: Silicon Alley should be the next tech hub.New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg believes in Silicon Alley so much, he wouldn't be surprised if Stanford graduates started moving there. “I believe that ...
NSA Surveillance: What to Know So Far
Facebook is just one Internet giant that has released its NSA stats to reassure users. Here's a round-up of the others, and their numbers.Consumers haven't been able to look at Silicon Valley the same way ever since news broke of a long-running government program called PRISM. Of course, the nine ...
As Obamacare looms, manufacturers brace for the worst
More than 80 percent of manufacturers see health care costs as their top business concernAnother day, another survey about Obamacare.About a week ago, we reported on a survey of hiring among small- and medium-sized businesses, which found the Affordable Care Act to be only a minor factor in determining the ...
Why your employer's gym membership perk may cost you at tax time
As an employee or contractor, we all “perk up” when we hear “perk” because we presume we are about to receive something for free, or on top of what we would normally receive. But in the case of gym memberships, the perk may cost you.Your gym membership could count as ...
I Am 1 Percent: Watch out for spending creep
Spending creep is a phenomenon that occurs when we increase our spending (consciously or subconsciously) as our perceived wealth grows. With every subsequent pay raise and, most recently, the run in the stock market, I’ve noticed spending creep settling into my budget. Where I would once call my bank to ...
Diesel cars: Gaining popularity with improvements
Conventional wisdom has commuters of the future behind the wheel of electric cars and hybrids. But a lot of those drivers will be cruising in a new-breed diesel car.Automakers – driven, in part, by the prospect of meeting Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards of 54.5 mpg by 2025 – ...
Which popular lifestyle diet will save you the most money?
Curious about revamping your diet with a new way of eating, like vegan, gluten-free, or Paleo, but aren’t sure how it’ll affect your grocery bill?It probably won’t surprise you that the key to a healthy body and bank balance is to avoid the “convenience costs” associated with pre-packaged foods, and ...
Edward Snowden: 'Truth Is Coming and It Cannot Be Stopped'
In a live online chat, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is answering questions about the PRISM scandal.Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency whistleblower, is answering questions from the public in a live written chat right now on The Guardian's website.For obvious reasons, Snowden's whereabouts are still unknown, but the 29-year-old was ...
Stylewhile: Reinventing Online Shopping one Store at a Time
By emphasizing outfits rather than pieces, the Finnish start-up stands to succeed in the virtual try-on space. Here's how customization, shopping carts, and social features are changing the game.Start-ups have tried virtual clothing try-on solutions time and time again.They attempt to make a viable solution for trying on clothes online, ...
Savings Secrets: 4 ways to save money on magazine subscriptions
While some would argue that magazines are on the way out because of the plethora of information available on the internet these days, I'm still a huge fan of them. I love getting my subscriptions in the mail and flipping through the content. But if you look at the shelf ...
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