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Feed SubscriptionTaking On an Ambitious Project? Be Honest
It won't get you anywhere to gloss over the challenges of a new business venture. Three reasons why. Every day business leaders launch challenging, often risky, initiatives
Read More »The Cure for Rose-Colored Glasses Syndrome
Entrepreneurs are often incurable optimists. But if your optimism is clouding your vision, small problems can turn into business-threatening issues.
Read More »Video: Living with an autistic teenager
Fifteen year-old Bill Colliton loves the guitar. He plays baseball, and rides the bus to school.
Read More »How to See Around Startup Corners
Dealing with the unexpected is part of running a startup. But that's no reason to get blindsided
Read More »5 Ways Corporate Execs Can Thrive at a Start-up
Thinking of making the leap from a big corporate executive to a start-up? Do it. Here's why
Read More »Do You Need A PR Firm?
A serial entrepreneur describes her public relations mistakes--so you don't make the same ones.
Read More »No Really! Change is a Good Thing
Spearheading a rapidly-growing business has its challenges but don't resist the urge to evolve as the business grows. Steering a rapidly growing and evolving business is one of the most exciting endeavors an entrepreneur can undertake
Read More »Crystallizing the future of oxide materials
(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Arkansas physicist and his colleagues have examined the challenges facing scientists building the next generation of materials and innovative electronic devices and identified opportunities for taking the rational material design in new directions.
Read More »Judge a New Company in 15 Seconds
I ask one question to determine whether a new company has a future. The 15-second answer tells me all I need to know When entrepreneurs ask us to evaluate business ideas, we always respond first with the same question: “What problem will your new venture solve?” Their one-or two-sentence answers---10 or 15 seconds at the most---are often enough to predict the future. Too frequently, entrepreneurs quickly get sidetracked talking about things like the amazing technology they hope to use, the fantastic team members they’ll be working with, or the resources they hope to leverage
Read More »Do You Have the Personality of an Entrepreneur?
What sort of person chooses this risky life? For me, all it took was some innate orneriness and burning desire for vengeance
Read More »Video: The challenges of living past 90
A new census report says more Americans than ever are living past age 90. Dr.
Read More »America’s Favorite Small Business
Have you ever wondered what your business idea would be worth if you had an opportunity to present it to the nation for a vote? Apparently, Dell, Microsoft, the American public and MasterCard believe that this small business idea is priceless. Following an eight-week long search that began on August 15th, Dell announced that Shwood Handcrafted Wooden Eyewear has been voted as the winner of the “America’s Favorite Small Business” contest sponsored by Dell, MasterCard and Microsoft.
Read More »Food Fights: Reconsidering Famine and War in the Horn of Africa
It seems there is a never ending cycle of war and famine throughout the Horn of Africa. As a child in the `80's, I first heard about this issue while listening to "We Are The World". Like millions of other people, I wanted to help
Read More »This Week In Bots: Sorry, Goose, But It’s Time To Buzz A Tower
Quadrocopters Landing On Quadrocopters ... And So On Ad-Infinitum We know quadrocopters are maneuverable in extremis, and we know that they can move in ever-smarter aerial ballets with other units, flying in unison...but the team at UPenn's GRASP Lab has pulled off something rather amazing: They've designed a way for a smaller quadrocopter to land on a bigger one--which will act as a flying landing pad of sorts.
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