If you want to reduce your business expenses in 2012 you must teach yourself one simple skill. Awhile back I was having lunch with a few friends. After the bill came she looked at it, called the waiter over to the table, and explained that she wanted 10 percent off of the bill
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In this extended version of the conversation from our latest issue , we talk with Kimberly Dillon, the Founder and CEO of House of Mikko. What inspired Dillon to create the makeup recommendation site?
Read More »How’re We Doing? No, Really
Entrepreneurship can be a lonely business, so it's important to get lots of feedback from customers and employees. But what kind of feedback do you really want, and how do you get it
Read More »Magic mushrooms may help treat depression: How?
Brain scan study showed psilocybin changed brain areas in ways similar to antidepressants
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Brian Malarkey's restaurant ventures are backed by massive investment. But can his social-dining experiment thrive
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Drybar closes a $16 million investment to help with expansion while its biggest competitor marches into its territory.
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Read More »Prostate cancer growth slowed by commonly used drug
New study finds drug dutasteride, commonly used for enlarged prostate, may stall cancer growth for some
Read More »Video: Seeing through stem cells
Medical researchers may have found a way to reverse the leading cause of blindness in older people. Medical correspondent Dr.
Read More »Introducing The Juicebox: A Simple, Sexy Smartphone Charging Station
For most smartphone users obsessed with having round-the-clock access to text messages, apps, and email, running out of battery juice has become almost as painful as a lost wallet. But a new solution from one New York-based startup hopes to solve your smartphone energy woes--while potentially creating new sources of revenue and engagement for merchants and advertisers. The Juicebox is a simple, elegant mobile phone charging station that lets users juice up their iPhones, Androids, or BlackBerries in public venues
Read More »How Speeding The "Most Important Algorithm Of Our Lifetime" Could Change This Modern World
Math breakthroughs don't often capture the headlines--but MIT researchers have just made one that could lead to all sorts of amazing technological breakthroughs that in just a few years will touch every hour of your life. Last week at the Association for Computing Machinery's Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA) a new way of calculating Fast Fourier Transforms was presented by a group of MIT researchers
Read More »What Will Today’s Apple Earnings Call Reveal?
Today Apple has an earnings call for its first quarter results for the fiscal year. They'll cover the all-important holiday season sales window, and could be seen as the first real moment when new CEO Tim Cook expresses his leadership of the company that was Steve Jobs's baby until recently.
Read More »Is it Time to Pivot? How to Tell
"Pivots" come in all shapes, sizes and varieties. How to see a course correction coming.
Read More »Want to Retain Gen-Y Job Hoppers? Don’t Bother
Young people these days are notoriously fickle when it comes to their employers. How should companies lock down talent
Read More »What Does The Perfect Mobile Interface Look Like? (Don’t Ask Siri)
Why we’re still waiting for the perfect mobile interface. Illustration by Robert Samuel Hanson Shortly after the iPhone 4S went on sale this fall, its marquee feature, the Siri voice assistant, sparked a heated debate in the tech world: Was Siri a great computing interface, or was it the greatest?
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