A serial entrepreneur is an entrepreneur who starts a number of new businesses.
When it comes to learning about startups, that landscape is largely made up of the books you would find in the average library, They are books about “how to deal with your company finances”, “10 steps to marketing success” and other dispiriting works, along with more inspiring but largely useless biographies of successful businessmen.
Portland’s new policy encourages composting.
Forty years ago, Portland, the largest city in Oregon, pioneered five-cent deposits on beverage container. Now they are advocating a new approach to garbage collection that has some U.S. communities taking notice.
Continue reading… “New twist on trash pickup in Portland, Ore.”
A diet based on healthy carbs offers best chance of keeping weight off.
A study published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that a diet based on healthy carbohydrates—rather than a low-fat or low-carbohydrate diet—offers the best chance of keeping weight off without bringing unwanted side effects.
Apple overshadows other mobile phone companies where it counts the most: profits.
The Apple iPad rules the tablet market and the iPhone is a popular among smartphone users, even though a panoply of devices running Google’s Android owns the majority of the smartphone market. We also know Research in Motion is in serious decline, and Nokia is struggling to reverse its slide through Windows Phones — a strategy set back at least temporarily as customers wait for Windows Phone 8, given that current Nokia smartphones won’t run Microsoft’s first serious version of Windows Phone.
Apple employees
During Jordan Golson’s best three-month stretch last year, he sold bout $750,000 worth of computers and gadgets at the Apple Store in Salem, N.H. It was a performance that might have called for a bottle of Champagne — if that were a luxury Mr. Golson could have afforded.
Continue reading… “Apple’s retail employees are long on loyalty but short on pay”
Chistensen illustrates the difference between mobile devices today with this famous graph.
Microsoft had taken the same approach to mobile devices that they had with PCs until last week’s announcement of the new Surface tablet: build the software themselves and let partners build the hardware. Google took a similar strategy with Android but then reversed course when they acquired Motorola. Apple’s integrated strategy was once widely ridiculed as a repeat of their losing 1990′s desktop computer strategy, but is now being copied throughout the industry.
Continue reading… “Integrated approach to mobile devices is winning”
Facebook has acquired the facial-recognition software company Face.com
A problem with uploading your life into the cloud: you’re sending it Internetward with an understanding of today’s technologies — and tomorrow always comes.
Continue reading… “What happens to all the data we upload with the technologies of tomorrow”
“Social-Mobile-Local” is an overused buzz phrase and most of the attention has been placed on the “social” and “mobile” parts of the phrase. In social, the spectacular rise of Facebook and Twitter is clearly a disruptive and critical trend. In mobile, the adoption of the smartphone (led by Apple’s iPhone and now catapulted forward by Android) is also a fundamentally important platform transition. Much less attention has been paid to the third concept, “local,” which is ironic since it may be a much larger real business opportunity than either social media or Smartphone application revenue. Over the next five years, this massive opportunity will come into focus as local businesses embrace the Internet and adopt new interactive technologies that increasingly automate the connections between their customers and themselves.
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The Tek Robotic Mobilization Device is a device that allows people to stand up is being hailed as a potential breakthrough for the disabled. The machine allows paraplegics – those without the use of their legs – to perform everyday tasks far more easily from shopping in the supermarket to ironing.
Continue reading… “Tek Robotic Mobilization Device: Next generation wheelchair lets users stand up”
What is the correlation between intelligence and income? Razib Khan, Gene Expression, used the GSS’s WORDSUM variable to indicate intelligence, which has a ~0.70 correlation with IQ. He used REALINC for income, which is indexed to 1986 values (so it is inflation adjusted) and aggregates the household income. and then Razib limited his sample to non-Hispanic whites over the age of 30 ( this also limited the data set to respondents from the year 2000 and later).
Continue reading… “Does higher intelligence mean higher income?”
Apple Store in Boston
Since the iPhone launched five years ago, Apple has created a total of 35,852 retail jobs.
The federal government is the country’s largest holder of real estate.
According to a report from the Government Accountability Office, the federal government knows very little about some of the properties it owns.
Continue reading… “Federal government knows very little about properties it owns”
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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