Investment banks will no longer be the gatekeepers to access to capital markets.
The gatekeepers of access to the capital markets have traditionally been investment bankers. Now it is time for crowdfunding to play a greater role.
Restorative justice, human rights, and the law: Video
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Heartspeak Productions with the Community Justice Initiatives Association has produced a 48-minute video from the Fraser region of British Columbia. The film discusses Canadian law and constitution and human rights as a fundamental basis of law.
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Hunger: Solving the world’s most solvable problem
Hunger ranked first on the list of the world’s Top 10 health risks.
Today, one in 8 people will sleep on an empty stomach. There are about 870 million people in the world who suffer from hunger due to food scarcity based on Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) data.
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Facebook tests voicemail and voice calling in Canada
Facebook voicemail
Facebook announces a spiffy new feature available in Canada. Through Facebook Messages, you can send voicemail to your Facebook friends.
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The ‘sharing economy’ is the next big thing
The Avis acquisition of Zipcar suggests that the sharing economy has come of age.
Revolution made their first bet on the concept of sharing nearly 10 years ago with their investments in Exclusive Resorts (2003) and Flexcar (2005). The “sharing economy” now extends across multiple verticals – we’re sharing cars, movies, extra rooms in our homes, online lectures, and even our time. Yesterday Avis Budget Group announced that they will acquire Zipcar which marks a significant milestone for the concept of collaborative consumption.
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Researchers achieve temperatures colder than absolute zero
When heated atoms can move with different levels of energy, from low to high. With positive temperatures (blue), atoms more likely occupy low-energy states than high-energy states, while the opposite is true for negative temperatures (red).
The coldest temperature possible is most often thought to be absolute zero. Researchers have now shown they can achieve even lower temperatures for a strange realm of “negative temperatures.”
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Wired magazine brings in 50% of its ad revenue from the web
The 50 percent digital revenue share also didn’t come as a result of a decline in print advertising sales.
One of the first big magazines devoted to technology and the internet is Wired. Half of Wired magazine’s ad revenue was generated from the internet in Q4 2012. This is a first for the magazine.
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When Prisons Become Illegal
Futurist Thomas Frey: The first time I watched Star Trek and heard Captain Kirk utter the phrase – “Set your phasers to stun!” – it occurred to me that these future weapons featured a number of different settings.
By 2020 a billion entrepreneurs will be women
“The third billion”
Globally, there are 380 million entrepreneurs today. For every 19 people you meet – one will be an entrepreneur. What are the other 18 doing? What are they doing that makes money without them creating/inventing opportunities? One might think they all have jobs, but they don’t – only 61% of world’s population have any sort of a job.
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Google’s Larry Page shares his vision of the future
Google CEO Larry Page
This past fall, when Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO of WPP Group, the giant advertising agency, visited Google, CEO Larry Page sent a car to pick him up at the Rosewood Hotel about 20 miles away. The car Page sent was no ordinary car. Thanks to a slew of high-tech tools, including radars, sensors, and a laser scanner that takes more than 1.5 million measurements every second, the Lexus SUV drove itself. For about 20 minutes, while navigating I-280 and the area’s busy State Route 85, the car cruised on autopilot, making quick course corrections, slowing down here when traffic loomed ahead, speeding up there to get out of the blind spot of a neighboring vehicle. “It was pretty incredible,” says Sorrell.
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Top 10 most stressful jobs of 2013
73% of workers are stressed out at work.
“I am soooo stressed out right now!” When is the last time you heard someone say that? Probably just three minutes ago, right?
According to a recent work-stress survey by Harris Interactive for Everest College, nearly three-fourths (73 percent) of workers are stressed out by at least one thing at work.
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9 beliefs and behaviors of highy ineffective people
It’s almost impossible for anyone to continue to choose a life of tedious grief after becoming fully enlightened to the fact that ineffectiveness is a choice, even among the most ineffective of us. It is the direct outcome of unproductive beliefs and behaviors.
So here are nine things to stop believing:
