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Feed SubscriptionStartup Weekend: Entrepreneurship’s Democratizer
Co-founder Marc Nager reveals why the Startup Weekend model fosters the most innovative ideas. Startup Weekend is simply an event that challenges teams to start a company in one weekend
Read More »Asia braces for Year of Dragon baby boom
Year of Dragon kicks off Monday in Zodiac calendar, officials are bracing for baby boom not only in China and Taiwan but in Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Hong Kong, and Macau
Read More »Loneliness: An Under-Diagnosed Epidemic Among New CEOs
It's lonely at the top, according to a new survey that found fully half of all chief executives suffer from isolation and loneliness. When starting a business , many young entrepreneurs dream of the day when the enterprise has grown and they sit atop a successful company as CEO. This makes sense.
Read More »How to Build Long-Term Shareholder Value
Dont goose near-term results at the expense of long-term value creation.
Read More »How to Excel at Anything
Hit a performance wall? Here are four ways to break through it.
Read More »Proposed changes to autism definition may mean new diagnoses for people with Asperger’s
Proposed changes to American Psychological Association's diagnostic manual may stop skyrocketing autism rates, experts said
Read More »This Week In Bots: Snakes, Barks, Vacuums, Sex Movies, And Other Mechanical Surprises
The Dog-Bark Snake Bot You've probably heard of robot snakes before, useful in search-and-rescue scenarios because they can worm their way into confined spaces--perhaps in collapsed buildings--that other machines can't match. You may also know SAR teams sometimes use sniffer dogs to help them locate victims trapped in rubble. But you've probably never conflated these two notions, and pictured a SAR dog that has a slave snake-bot that it can deploy and control with a bark.
Read More »Cinchifieds’ Simple, Grand Plan To Disrupt The Classified-Ad Space
Watch out, Craigslist: Cinchified aims to match buyers and sellers in a ridiculously simple way.
Read More »The Last Life Boat
After spending over 200 days on a cruise ship, Sixthman founder Andy Levine offers his perspective on what happened on the Costa Concordia. I am probably one of the few 41 year olds who has been on over 50 cruises in my lifetime and was actually on a cruise last weekend when the news of the Costa Concordia incident broke
Read More »Start a Company … & Stay Married
Hint: It's harder than it sounds. Here's how we make it work, and stay happy while running a successful business.
Read More »How Anonymous Is Tricking The Public Into Helping Them Take On The Feds
#OpMegaupload , a reaction by the hacktivists group Anonymous to a strict takedown of file-sharing site Megaupload (and the arrest of employees) on piracy charges, has been pretty successful in disabling the websites of the Department of Justice, the MPAA, the RIAA and others. Partly carried out via Twitter messages, this new effort by Anonymous is only superficially similar to previous distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that Anonymous has carried out to punish its targets
Read More »For Brands, Twitter’s Enhanced Profile Pages Make Every Tweet Count
HP, Best Buy, and JetBlue reveal how they use Twitter's enhanced profile pages to make every tweet sing. It’s still officially in velvet-rope mode, but Twitter’s enhanced profile pages are heavily in play for those brands among the first to sign up. So how are the early reviews?
Read More »How Sara Blakely Got Spanx Started
Sara Blakely, founder of Spanx, on how she came up with the idea for footless pantyhose.
Read More »How Sara Blakely Got Spanx on Oprah
Sara Blakely, founder of Spanx, explains the steps she took to land her girdles on Oprah and, ultimately, built the Spanx brand. View the video on Inc.com at: http://www.inc.com/sara-blakely/how-sara-blakely-got-spanx-on-oprah.html Advertisement: Are your best customers still out there?
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