Mark Peter Davis, co-founder of Kohort, a social media start-up in New York, discusses the best way an entrepreneur can face the moment he asks this question. We entrepreneurs are told to listen to feedback, but ignore the naysayers.
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Whether you're interested in selling your business or buying one, odds are you'll want to engage a business broker to help you through the process. Not unlike what you see in the real estate sector, business brokers tend to be paid by sellers: something you need to keep in mind if you're a buyer.
Read More »Knewton’s "Adaptive Learning" Technology Spreads to Tens of Thousands of Students at ASU, Penn State, SUNY, More
At the Venture Capital in Education Summit yesterday, Jose Ferreira, CEO of Knewton , announced the first big partnerships that will have tens of thousands of students trying the adaptive learning platform he's been building for the past five years. What he calls a "data interoperability engine" promises to take any kind of educational content, break it down and present it to students at exactly the sequence and pace they need, while giving detailed feedback on performance to both students and professors. "We can classify students by ability level down to the concept,"
Read More »McDowell looks back … and ahead
PGT: A year after winning the U.S. Open, Graeme McDowell is optimistic that despite his recent poor play, he can repeat as champ.
Read More »Olive oil linked to huge decline in stroke risk
Stroke risk found to be more than 40 percent lower in heavy users of olive oil than in those who avoided it entirely
Read More »PGT: Lefty, Johnson have different approaches
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Read More »PGT: U.S. futility doesn’t worry Johnson
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Read More »Video: Life expectancy of U.S. women dropping
A study tracking deaths from 1997 to 2007 by researchers at the University of Washington revealed that in one quarter of the U.S., the life expectancy for women is dropping. Kelly Cobiella takes a look at why.
Read More »U.S. Open a tough test without being hard
Golf's second major championship of the year seems to have a new name.
Read More »Dogfish Head Founder’s Unique Recipe For Creating A Great Beer Company
Where else but at a Fast Company event can White House assistant chef and food policy advisor Sam Kass trade beer tips with Sam Calagione , the founder of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery? [video_twistage 1] The two Sams, Nos. 11 and 46 on our Most Creative People in Business list, respectively, put their heads together last week at Fast Company's Most Creative People conference, where Calagione praised the White House's home brewing and cooking initiatives
Read More »Forget 3-D Net-Connected HDTV; We Want Smell-o-Vision
Researchers at the University of California and the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology in Korea have been looking at the technology for two years now, and have come up with a proof-of-concept design that really could result in smell-o-vision, TV that pumps out odors to heighten to your immersive-TV experience. Nasal nostalgia is made possible by your brain's hippocampus --where long-term memories get sorted out--and it seems it's a very primal instinct, which may explain its power. You know what I mean: The way an unexpected whiff of scent will spark off memories of a long-forgotten partner
Read More »Do "magic" mushrooms have medicinal value?
People given hallucinogenic 'shrooms experience greater well-being, study shows
Read More »Marry me! Man offers half his salary in wife search
Paul Gutierrez will cough up thousands of dollars to the person who lands him a date with his future wife. He says he'll donate the money to the charity of the person's choice.
Read More »New par for the course: US Open gives up a stroke
Along the woods that line the far edge of the front nine at Congressional Country Club, the U.S. Open is giving up a stroke.
Read More »HerShe Group
Mission: The mission of the HerShe Group is to prepare girls in foster care to successfully transition from adolescence to adult independence through the performing arts, mentorship, college & career readiness, leadership development and exposure to extraordinary experiences. We consider ...
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