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Senate Passes Crowdfunding Bill 73-26 (With Protections)

March 22, 2012

Crowdfunding is closer to reality!

Well, this just in from a dispatch on Capitol Hill: The Senate has passed legislation that will essentially legalize crowdfunding in startups by practically anyone, even your mom. U.S. Senators Scott Brown (R-Mass.), Jeff Merkley (D-Oreg.), and Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) collectively introduced the “CROWDFUND Act” (S. 2190) earlier this month, which adds measures to the House of Rep’s now well-known JOBS Act to ensure that companies would be able to use SEC-approved crowdfunding platforms to raise money from “small-dollar investors.”

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Alternative Transportation, Business, Science & Technology News

Honda wants dealers to install CNG refueling stations

March 22, 2012

Natural gas home refueling appliance.

The only automaker currently selling natural gas-powered passenger car s in the U.S. is Honda. The Japanese automaker wants to double sales of its Honda Civic Natural Gas sedan and to do so it wants some of its dealers to install compressed natural gas (CNG) refueling stations.

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Analysis, Business, Science & Technology News

Overnight success a myth

March 17, 2012

There can be years of decisions, learning, analysis, thought and effort to become an “overnight success”.

Rovio spent eight years and almost went bankrupt before finally creating their massive hit Angry Birds. It was their 52nd game they had created. Pinterest is one of the fastest growing websites in history, but struggled for a long time. Pinterest’s CEO recently said that they had “catastrophically small numbers” in their first year after launch, and that if he had listened to popular startup advice he probably would have quit.

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The Coming Coder Wars

March 16, 2012

Futurist Thomas Frey: In the late 1980s, I spent some time as a mainframe programmer at IBM. Conversations around the water cooler often had to do with some of the cryptic code written 2-3 decades earlier, buried deep within the system, that was incomprehensible to what anyone was writing at the time.

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Business, Great Videos, Science & Technology News

Dollar Shave Club a viral web sensation, but can it become a viable business?

March 14, 2012

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DollarShaveClub.com’s viral video cost just $4,500 to make and has millions of views.

If you haven’t seen the hysterical viral ad by the new start-up company Dollar Shave Club, you’re missing out. In just under a week, more than 3 million people have watched the ad campaign on YouTube, which cost just $4,500 to produce.

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Analysis, Business, Money Talk, Science & Technology News

Build one of these 7 businesses if you want to be a millionaire

March 14, 2012

Do you want to be a millionaire?

You should try building one of the following seven companies, says Y-Combinator founder Paul Graham, if you want to become a millionaire.

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Analysis, Business, Culture, Latest Trend

10 worst paying cities for women

March 13, 2012

On average, women make 77.4 percent of a man’s salary.

Women’s History Month is March and International Women’s Day was March 8th. International Women’s Day was first observed in the U.S. on Feb. 28, 1909. That day has come to symbolize women’s struggles for equal rights.

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Newspaper: America’s Fastest Shrinking Industry

March 12, 2012

Are you working for the fastest shrinking industry in the United States? You are, if you’re working for a newspaper according to this study by LinkedIn and the Council of Economic Advisors.

The fastest-growing industries include renewables (+49.2%), internet (+24.6%), online publishing (+24.3%), and e-learning (+15.9%). Fastest-shrinking industries were newspapers (-28.4%), retail (-15.5%), building materials (-14.2%), and automotive (-12.8%)…

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Analysis, Business, Human Behavior, Science & Technology News

Ambitious people unhappier and don’t live as long: Study

March 12, 2012

Ambitious people are unhappier.

A new study found while people who are ‘go-getters’ are more likely to attend prestigious universities and hold high-paying jobs, they are only slightly happier than their less-ambitious counterparts—and actually live shorter lives.

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Analysis, Business, Human Behavior, Latest Trend

More workers slack off in March

March 12, 2012

Many employees are feeling out of sorts and tired because the clocks have sprung ahead an hour.

Monday on Twitter, DST and daylight savings were trending, and the theme of many of the tweets had to do with workers’ difficulties adjusting to the time switcheroo.

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Analysis, Business, Fashion

How Crocs survived its near death experience

March 11, 2012

Two years after Crocs was on the verge of bankruptcy the company has opened hundreds of new stores.

Footwear-maker Crocs (CROX) was facing a life or death situation in 2008. The Boulder, Colo., company best known for its colorful and lightweight rubber clogs watched as its popularity sank and its inventory piled up on store shelves.

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Analysis, Business, government, Health & Fitness, Science & Technology News

The health insurance industry could be destroyed by a $1000 test

March 10, 2012

The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act bars insurers from denying coverage or raising premiums on individuals who show a genetic predisposition toward particular diseases.

The cost of sequencing an individual genome will soon be less than $1,000, reports the New York Times. That’s not nothing, but given what most health care costs, it’s not much. And it means that an individual mandate — or something much like it — is inevitable.

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