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When you dont need a full-time employee to do the task at hand, hire an e-lancer from one of these new companies. Call it the joblet recovery. With unemployment at 9 percent and 2012 looking bleak, many job seekers find themselves adrift in a modern version of the preindustrial piecework economy
Read More »Apple Pie: The Tastiest Rumors About The iPhone 5 And More
As Apple, we assume, gears up for a press event to reveal the iPhone 5--and possibly a handful of other innovations--the rumor mill spins up, and leaks from inside Apple reach the press. Here's what's going on: Leaked Parts A number of leaked parts purporting to show the partly disassembled guts of an updated iPhone have surfaced online
Read More »Insert Here: Asking People How They Would Improve Their Cities
A new project from 350.org lets people fill in the blank spots in their city with potential exciting improvements. If you were paying attention in New York this past weekend, you might have noticed signs plastered to telephone poles, buidlings, and fences. They're requesting that something--a green roof, a bike lane, a urban farm--be "inserted" at the site
Read More »How Howard Buffett Will Use His Grandfather’s Recipe For Riches To Disrupt Philanthropy
The grandson of the legendary investor aims to bring some private-sector savvy to the growing world of mega-philanthropy.
Read More »Entrepreneur-Sourced Ideas For Reducing Barriers To Business Creation
Back in the 1910s, my Grandpa Jack was working in a shoe store, but he had bigger aspirations. So, he put a few machines in the back of the store and made socks and stockings on the side. As business picked up, he started building his own textiles factories, one of which I worked at during college.
Read More »From Reality Show to Lasting Fame
The original Top Chef, Harold Dieterle, gives advice on turning a reality show appearance into an entrepreneurial reality. Chef Harold Dieterle has done what many others have failed to do: he's whipped 15 minutes of reality show fame into two successful, critically acclaimed New York City restaurants
Read More »What to Listen to Before You Fire Someone
Let's face it, firing an employee is one of the most difficult parts of your job. But sometimes, it needs to be done. So play one of these songs, and go do what you gotta do
Read More »Conan O’Brien’s Guide To Creativity
When we visited his office on the Warner Bros. lot for this year's 100 Most Creative People in Business package , Conan O'Brien opened up about how he works.
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