Math breakthroughs don't often capture the headlines--but MIT researchers have just made one that could lead to all sorts of amazing technological breakthroughs that in just a few years will touch every hour of your life. Last week at the Association for Computing Machinery's Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA) a new way of calculating Fast Fourier Transforms was presented by a group of MIT researchers
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Andrew Mason dishes on both the company's big financial goof & its successful email strategy. Groupon CEO Andrew Mason has admitted that the daily-deal start-up made a "bush-league mistake" in misstating its revenues before it went public late last year
Read More »Disruptive Innovation, Dog-Food Edition
Believe it or not, at one point we actually fed our pets real food. That was, until people-food companies realized they could maximize their resources by mashing together all of their scrap meat, leftover grains, eggshells, and bones, injecting some vitamins, and cooking it up into “kibble.”
Read More »6 Big Hidden Costs of Daily Deals
Daily deal programs provide a quick influx of cash--but what happens after that?
Read More »How to Succeed Against the Odds
Struggling against difficult odds in business? Consider this wisdom from an Inc
Read More »5 Healthy Habits for Any Work Schedule
Too busy to work out? Think again.
Read More »Land More E-mail in Your Targets’ Inboxes
With the acquisition of OtherInbox, e-mail deliverability company Return Path hopes to help businesses do just that.
Read More »Dysfunctional Family? You’d Make a Great Entrepreneur
Most successful founders are no strangers to chaos and stress. In fact, they learned how to deal with it gracefully at a very young age. If you’ve never founded a company , rest assured it never happens as elegantly and smoothly as articles in Inc
Read More »How To Work From Home Like You Mean It
Working from home requires a new mindset and a good system, not just a nicer pair of pants (but put those on, too).
Read More »How to Keep the Momentum Going
Turnaround specialist Glenn Blickenstaff, in the third of five articles, explains how to turn a failing company into a breakout success. This week he explains that too much praise and back-patting can slow progress. Your company might be failing now but you’re well on your way to turning things around if you’ve been following this five-part series of articles that outline how to execute a successful turnaround.
Read More »How to Keep the Momentum Going
Turnaround specialist Glenn Blickenstaff, in the third of five articles, explains how to turn a failing company into a breakout success. This week he explains that too much praise and back-patting can slow progress
Read More »The 7 Greatest Communication Successes Of 2011
Media darlings and mavens of masterful storytelling who took center stage with aplomb in 2011. Welcome to Part 2 of my annual list of who’s been naughty and who's been nice as a speaker or communicator. This week, the winners
Read More »Speaking Out on the "Quiet Crisis" (preview)
When Shirley Ann Jackson was in elementary school in the 1950s, she would prowl her family’s backyard, collecting bumblebees, yellow jackets and wasps. She would bottle them in mayonnaise jars and test which flowers they liked best and which species were the most aggressive.
Read More »PayPal to Offer Location-Based Deals
The company will start offering deals tailored to users' buying history and cell phone location in the first quarter of 2012. PayPal is diving into the daily deals business
Read More »Getting a Micro Loan Just Got Easier
Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney introduced the 'microbiz' bill to help 1,000 lenders make $125 million in loans to small business. U.S. Rep Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) today will introduce a bill in Congress aimed to help small businesses.
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