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If your team spends its days asking for permission before executing, taking an hour to complete expense reports or time sheets, attending redundant meetings, or answering irrelevant emails, you’ve got a problem. Processes are supposed to help organizations scale up, improve efficiency for new hires and existing employees, and so on--but they can quickly get out of control.
Read More »When the Breadwinner Gets Crusty
Troubles arise when the spouse's paycheck supports a family and a business. During the perilous early years of Stonyfield Farm, I didn't work outside the home. My husband, Gary, and I managed to live on his meager income
Read More »17 Game-Changing Health Start-ups
Unfit citizens. Underinformed doctors
Read More »Who’s Responsible for Meeting the Cyber Threat?
Recently an old colleague, Dr Andrew Rogoyski, came to lecture to our MSc students on how government deals with cyber security. Dr Rogoyski has studied the interactions between government and industry and his talk led to a key question for which there was a surprising range of views
Read More »Bots of Burden: U.S. Army Recruiting an Array of Animal-Inspired Robots to Assist Battlefield Troops [Video]
Three of the U.S. military's newest recruits reported for duty this week at the Army Test and Evaluation Command . These troops are different from normal soldiers in several ways--for starters, each has six feet.
Read More »We Are All Augmented-Reality-Style Banksys Now
Itching to spray a wall with graffiti but not down with the whole civil disobedience thing? All together now: There's an app for that. Wallit is a new location-aware app which advertises itself with the tagline "walls for places." Essentially it lets its users place a digital Post-it note, or an invisible piece of graffiti if you like, on a virtual "wall" connected to a real place on Earth
Read More »We Are All Augmented-Reality-Style Banksys Now
Itching to spray a wall with graffiti but not down with the whole civil disobedience thing? All together now: There's an app for that.
Read More »We Are All Augmented-Reality-Style Banksys Now
Itching to spray a wall with graffiti but not down with the whole civil disobedience thing? All together now: There's an app for that
Read More »3 Biggest Entrepreneur Opportunities Now
The cost of starting a business today is lower than ever. If you have an idea, pursue it.
Read More »One iTunes Sensation and Growing: 1st Round
After signing break-out rap artist Sammy Adams, this fledgling record label and entertainment firm is hoping for more wins. Teague Egan isn’t one to walk away from a challenge, if anything he goes looking for them.
Read More »Technology For Generation Next: Teens in Tech Labs
Why Microsoft is backing a technology incubator for teens, an idea that Daniel Brusilovsky came up with at 15 years old. Daniel Brusilovsky started his first business when he was 14.
Read More »From Old Pfizer Campus to Start-up Hub
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Read More »Exotic material boosts electromagnetism safely
Using exotic man-made materials, scientists from Duke University and Boston College believe they can greatly enhance the forces of electromagnetism (EM), one of the four fundamental forces of nature, without harming living beings or damaging electrical equipment.
Read More »Hiring Tips for First-Time Entrepreneurs
Now that you've raised money, how do you build a solid team?
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