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Feed SubscriptionMike Tyson, App Maker: "I Don’t Want To Be A Dinosaur"
Mike Tyson's entered the next phase of his career: creative consultant for the wildly successful iPhone game, "Mike Tyson: Main Event." And while plenty of celebrities lend their names to products, Tyson tells Fast Company he's poured his heart into this one--and found kindred spirits among hardcore gamers.
Read More »Change Generation: Wanderfly’s Christy Liu On Reimagining Travel Sites
Christy Liu is the cofounder of travel site Wanderfly, "We help people figure out where they can go and what they can do based on their budgets." Liu, and Wanderfly's three other entrepreneurial cofounders, work to make travel planning more fun--and to succeed on their own strengths. [twistage bd48aabb0a382] *In Partnership with
Read More »GolfChannel: Mickelson not sweating young stars
GolfChannel: Lefty turns 41 next month.
Read More »Amit Bhatia’s Aspire: Matching Rural Workers With Jobs
Photograph Daryl Visscher Illustration by Gluekit Amit Bhatia, Founder and CEO of Aspire. Illustration by Gluekit .blue { color:rgb(0,113,146); font-weight:bold; } BIG IDEA: To supply India's booming economy with millions of young workers who come from rural and disadvantaged backgrounds.
Read More »Al Jazeera’s Social Media Experiment "The Stream" Launches Online Today
Al Jazeera's aggressive expansion into cyberspace hopes to empower a new generation of newsmakers, impact the American news market, and capture the attention of young cable cutters. Fresh off the wild success of Internet-fueled Middle-East revolution stories, Al Jazeera English today is launching the online component to its forthcoming social media-centered news program, The Stream.
Read More »Firing Up American Innovation
Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today.
Read More »Bad female boss? She may have Queen Bee Syndrome
The sisterhood of women is weak in the workplace, according to many new studies including one where 95 percent of women said they felt undermined at some point in their career by other women. This phenomenon has a name: The Queen Bee Syndrome.
Read More »Branding on a Budget
When Mike Sprouse , Chief Marketing Officer at for one of the largest, privately-owned internet marketing companies in the world, Epic Media Group , agreed to be on my broadcast today, I immediately jumped at the opportunity to ask him a few marketing and branding questions. Mike is also the author of The Greatness Gap , which details personal strategies to maximize your professional career. If you have questions for Mike related to finding your passion, marketing your business or how to give back to our global community, call into the show today , April 18th at 2pm ET or send me an email ! Mike, you’ve worked in the corporate arena for most of your career, and yet you refer to yourself as entrepreneurial.
Read More »Language Learning Goes Social
As businesses go global , the market for second-language acquisition continues to grow due to both increasing globalization and an increasingly diverse U.S. population
Read More »The 10 Most Innovative Companies in Education
01 / NYU For opening up a second campus in Abu Dhabi. There, NYU is shepherding the most successful and ambitious attempt yet to export overseas a full-fledged American liberal arts university.
Read More »Competitive Intelligence: How to Make People Talk
How do you get people to speak more candidly than they might care to? In most cases, some amateur psychology does the trick, says Greg Hartley, a former U.S. Army interrogator and co-author of The Most Dangerous Business Book You'll Ever Read.
Read More »Best Courses 2011: The Launch Pad
University of Miami Taught by: Outside advisers Some entrepreneurship classes live in business schools. Some live in engineering schools
Read More »The 10 Best Entrepreneurship Courses of 2011
Stanford's new entrepreneurship class is not for the faint of heart. Launchpad is designed around a series of hurdles: the elevator pitch, the functional prototype, week after week of sales results.
Read More »The 6 Principles of Success
Predicting the future is a seemingly futile exercise. This doesn't mean we should not try to stay ahead of the game. However, I have found throughout my career at PepsiCo that rapid adaption to changes as they occur is more beneficial in business than clairvoyance.
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