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Here are four things you can do now to increase the value of your business-and give you a smoother transition out when the time is right. As entrepreneurs we are constantly putting out fires, prioritizing and re-prioritizing our most urgent tasks, and changing our schedules so rapidly that committing to lunch with an old friend next week brings a certain sense of anxiety. We run our businesses to achieve our mission and earn a profit.
Read More »Quantum copies do new tricks
One of the strange features of quantum information is that, unlike almost every other type of information, it cannot be perfectly copied.
Read More »Big Brother Or Your Personal Concierge? Causata Makes Data Work For Customers
Companies gather ever more information about us, and better technology means they can crunch it faster. That should actually make for better service--and more interesting content. With all the scaremongering going on these days about how much advertisers and websites know about us , you'd think certain online sites would be able to do a much better job in matching their ads to our interests
Read More »Becoming a Part-Time CEO
No, I don't run a 'lifestyle' business. But I've finally figured out what's important in life
Read More »How to Bag a Hacker
The latest tactic in the tech talent hunt: Get your techies to blog about how smart they are. On July 21, Filip Mares sparked a small uproar in the blogosphere with the following posting: "In order to query the post from memory, we bind a click event function to retrieve the contents for the < l i > id in question," he asserted.
Read More »Repost: That Warm Friendly Drink…makes you more Warm and Friendly.
Sci is off to the frozen north to visit people for the holidays. She’ll be back very shortly, but in the meantime, here is a repost, to make us all feel a little warmer
Read More »Why Walking through a Doorway Makes You Forget
The French poet Paul Val
Read More »Start-ups Enter the Irrational Exuberance Phase
Congress is beginning to view entrepreneurship by 20-somethings as a low-cost fix for all that ails the economy. A little realism, please?
Read More »When You Try to Buy Status, It Can Backfire
The desire for social status is one of the most important factors driving human behavior. Our place on the social hierarchy can determine everything from who we marry to how long we live . However, recent research suggests that some of the things we do to boost our status can backfire: they may make us feel better temporarily but increase the chances we will be stuck with lower status.
Read More »The American Fascination With Zombies
Ed note: As Halloween rapidly approaches in the US, AiP will be exploring superstitions, beliefs, and the things that go bump in the night.
Read More »Master Marketing to Moms
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Read More »Impurity atoms introduce waves of disorder in exotic electronic material
(PhysOrg.com) -- It's a basic technique learned early, maybe even before kindergarten: Pulling things apart - from toy cars to complicated electronic materials - can reveal a lot about how they work. "That's one way physicists study the things that they love; they do it by destroying them," said S
Read More »Samsung researchers announce breakthrough in growing gallium nitride LEDs on glass
(PhysOrg.com) -- Everyone knows that the LED market is huge, its among other things, the technology behind our big screen TVs. Thats why so many companies are investing so much money in trying to find ways to improve on it so that as our TVs get bigger, they wont grow out of the average consumers price range. Now, Samsung, the Korean technology giant, has announced that one of its research teams has figured out a way to grow crystalline gallium nitride (GaN) LEDs on regular glass.
Read More »Take Action on Your Goals
Productivity is a hot topic because so many people (especially entrepreneurs) are productivity-challenged.
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