During her speech at the Heinz History Center in Chicago, sociologist Jacqueline Battalora was asked why there are so many young black men dying at the hands of the police in the US. She answered that there are many factors ...
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Feed SubscriptionDIY Buzz: 13 Things to Do Now
If promoting your company is your task and yours alone, here's your to-do list. Every entrepreneur is a self-promoter , but some are lucky enough to be able to pay for help in that department
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 »5 Ways to Handle Bad Press
What do you do when a reporter refuses to see your product the way you do? A PR veteran recently frustrated (by Inc.com, no less!) has the answer.
Read More »5 Ways to Handle Bad Press
What do you do when a reporter refuses to see your product the way you do? A PR veteran recently frustrated (by Inc.com, no less!) has the answer. Sooner or later, someone is going to write something about you, your company, or a client that you don't like
Read More »4 Things Your Start-up Needs to Do This Year
If you're resolved to grow your business bigger and faster this year, take a lesson from my first entrepreneurial endeavor. I was recently reminded of my first entrepreneurial venture and thought that sharing some of the lessons would be a helpful way to start the new year. One semester in college I won a fellowship that included a very small stipend to defray the cost of living in Washington, D.C., so I could be a congressional intern.
Read More »4 Things Your Start-up Needs to Do This Year
If you're resolved to grow your business bigger and faster this year, take a lesson from my first entrepreneurial endeavor. I was recently reminded of my first entrepreneurial venture and thought that sharing some of the lessons would be a helpful way to start the new year
Read More »4 Things Your Start-up Needs to Do This Year
If you're resolved to grow your business bigger and faster this year, take a lesson from my first entrepreneurial endeavor. I was recently reminded of my first entrepreneurial venture and thought that sharing some of the lessons would be a helpful way to start the new year.
Read More »4 Things Your Start-up Needs to Do This Year
If you're resolved to grow your business bigger and faster this year, take a lesson from my first entrepreneurial endeavor. I was recently reminded of my first entrepreneurial venture and thought that sharing some of the lessons would be a helpful way to start the new year.
Read More »Norm Brodsky on Keeping Peace in the Family
The best way to avoid bickering over family ownership of a company is to put everything in writing early on. Dear Norm, My sister had a great idea for a product and started a business. I joined her and put in long hours, without compensation, for two years
Read More »As "Breaking Dawn" Shatters Box Office, Its Screenwriter Breaks New Ground With "Earthseed"
Screenwriter-producer Melissa Rosenberg helped make Breaking Dawn a box office smash by staying faithful to the books. With her next project Earthseed, she ditches fan loyalty for high fidelity, by "sounding out" her script with f/x experts at ILM
Read More »How to Blog to Attract Investors
Venture capitalists and angel investors weigh in on what they're looking for in your company blog.
Read More »Visualizing Data And Telling Compelling Stories With OkCupid And FlowingData
Twitter users have shorter relationships. iPhone owners have more sex. And Big Macs cost 50 percent more in Brazil than in the U.S., but are much less in India
Read More »Four Strategies To De-Suck Your Commute
Getting to work can be inhumanly stressful, boring, or logistically tricky--or, sometimes, all three. Here are four ways to arrive at work calmer, smarter, and without a lame excuse for being late. Technology can’t clear the idiots off the road on your drive to work, or improve the housing market so much that you’re no longer riding the train or bus
Read More »Unbound’s Crowd-Financed, Spine-Tingling Effort To Reinvent Book Publishing
Unbound publishing , the Kickstarter for books,
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