Team builders to the smartest companies in tech, the founders of the Go Game are letting everyone play their coveted "textured scavenger hunt." HR managers rejoice. You might say that the Go Game , an iPhone game launching this week at SXSW , is the best-researched project in the history of location games. Founders Ian Fraser and Finnegan Kelly have spent the last 10 years running a hacked-together version of the game at corporate team-building events for Google , Apple , EA Games, Zynga , Facebook , Microsoft , and Intuit .
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Feed SubscriptionThe Value of Hiring Experience
We are in the age of the inexperienced entrepreneur making a fortune and leading the pack. At least that’s what I see in everything from The Social Network to a recent Inc. article about a 20-something New Yorker moving to Dehli because his company’s Website is all the rage in India
Read More »Driptech Makes a Splash as China Invests $600 Billion in Water Conservation
The Palo Alto-based company is rapidly expanding in India and China with a simple tool to save farmers and governments large amounts of water and cash. China is getting ready to invest over $600 billion in the next ten years in water conservation , as announced in its latest five-year plan . Why?
Read More »How to Market Your Business at SXSW Interactive
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Read More »Nearly 20% of Female Chinese Managers Are CEOs
Among China's female workforce in managerial positions, 19% hold the title of CEO, according to the Grant Thornton Business Report released this week . That's 10% higher than averages in Europe and 14% higher than averages in the United States, according to the report. Thailand came in first at a whopping 30% of female managers holding the title of CEO and Taiwan came in third at 18%, pointing to a possible emerging trend in Asia for women to more routinely hold the position of CEO.
Read More »Cockpit Tech Gets a Lift From the iPad
The iPad isn't just just a luxury device for gadget fetishists. The proof may soon be found in airline cockpits, where major airlines are testing out the iPad as a replacement for paper maps and clunky aviation computers
Read More »Don’t Text and Drive: ZoomSafer Automatically Locks Your Phone While on the Road
The life--and money--you save could be your own. With very few exceptions, killing people is bad for business
Read More »Web-Based Live Chat: Good for Business?
Depending on how you deploy it, live chat on a company website can be a boon for business or a terrible calamity. For some, it’s like adding a crack team of ace deal-closers who contribute directly to the bottom line. For others, it’s like hiring a surly, inattentive sales clerk who sends customers fleeing for the virtual door
Read More »The Four-Day Work Week
Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today. Work less
Read More »Study: Start-up Rate at 15-Year High
In 2010 , Americans started their own businesses at the highest rate in 15 years—but they were more apt to go at it alone, says a new study.
Read More »Hey Jimmy Wales, What Do You Think of Content Farms?
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and CultofMac.com editor Leander Kahney discuss Google, content farms, and Demand Media (plus a personal account of how the tweaked algorithm almost ruined Kahney's business) in our latest edition of The Cold Call. Welcome to another edition of Cold Call , where we zing a question to our favorite CEOs, entrepreneurs, VCs, and tech evangelists to see how they answer--and how you'd respond.
Read More »Artificial Intelligence for Business Agility
How's this for instant gratification?
Read More »Artificial Intelligence for Business Agility
How's this for instant gratification? "If you're shopping for a car and spout out a feature you'd like, the factory should immediately start creating it," says Michael Gruninger, who heads the semantics technologies lab at the University of Toronto
Read More »Outsmarting Mother Nature
What would you do if you could predict the future? This is not a rhetorical question.
Read More »Leadership Lessons From Charlie Sheen?
Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today.
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