How Colleen Molter, founder of QED National, an IT staffing firm, survived the dot-com bubble and Sept. 11th, and other lessons.
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A new variant of an influenza virus that circulates in pigs has been jumping occasionally into people, providing a surprisingly early opportunity for public health officials to test out some of the lessons learned from the 2009 H1N1 pandemic . [More]
Read More »Is the 54-Hour Start-up a Myth?
How does Startup Weekend turn strangers into teams into companies in less than three days? A review of the new book that documents the process. Can anyone really start a company and go from "concept to creation in 54 hours?" Doing so is the precise goal of the event Startup Weekend (which I covered in April 2009 ).
Read More »Starting From Scratch
Matthew Corrin founder and CEO of Freshii discusses how he started a restaurant business with no experience in the industry and the lessons he learned on his way to success.
Read More »McIlroy better be a quick study
Ballengee: U.S. Open champ can fix his so-so first round by simply applying the lessons he learned from his only other sub-par rounds at this year's majors
Read More »Recommended: "The Fate of Greenland"
The Fate of Greenland: Lessons from Abrupt Climate Change by Philip W. Conkling, Richard Alley, Wallace Broecker and George Denton.
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