Futurist Thomas Frey: A couple years ago I was on a weekend outing in Vail, Colorado and ended up attending a kayaking tournament taking place on the Gore Creek in the heart of town.
Startups usher in retail revolution by clearing out cash registers
Business are replacing traditional cash registers with such products as Square’s Business in a Box.
The cash register has reigned as an icon of American commerce ever since the Civil War era. It’s an American ritual to pay for your purchases at the cash register. But, the average point-of-sale (POS) system is expensive, inconvenient to set up and manage and not connected to the internet. Despite all of this, these types of transactions occur a million times every day. The last significant shift happened in the 1950’s when credit card terminals enter the scene.
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Rent a Mourner – a service that hires people to cry at funerals
Rent someone to attend a funeral and have them cry during it.
Are you planning a funeral but you aren’t sure enough people are going to show up? Rent a Mourner, a service that hires people to cry at funerals, might be able to help.
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British Airways to hold 11 hour hackathon during transatlantic flight
British Airways
British Airways is inviting 100 entrepreneurs to participate in an 11-hour hackathon during a transatlantic flight from San Francisco to London. The plane will depart on June 12, 2013.
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Top 10 most innovative cities in Asia Pacific
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Quantifying innovation, especially on a large scale, is incredibly difficult. But, Solidiance, an Asian marketing and innovation strategy consulting firm, is trying to do with its list of the most innovative cities in the Asia Pacific region.
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8 free online courses entrepreneurs can’t miss
Entrepreneurs can hop online and hone their expertise for free.
Education for entrepreneurs is slowly but surely becoming more mainstream. Traditional universities are offering entrepreneurs more tools than ever before. But Coursera and Udacity, education startups, have taken this a step further. They are offering in-depth classes on entrepreneurship taught by industry heavy-weights such as Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur Steve Blank for free.
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Car companies should be really worried about Millennials: Study
People between 18 and 34, the Millennials, don’t care about driving nearly as much as the generations before them, according to a new report from Zipcar. There are many reasons why, but they boil down to less money and more options.
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Top 10 Photos of the Week
Wall hopping, the latest extreme swimming sport!
Quote of the Day: “Those who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand.” – Kurt Vonnegut
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Makexyz links 3D printer owners to designers
MakerBot Replicator 2X 3D desktop printer.
It may only be in its infancy, but a new startup has already found a way to disrupt the 3D printing industry. Makexyz is a 3D printing service with a brilliantly simple premise: Link the 3D printer owners of the world with the designers that need them. It’s like Airbnb or Wheelz, but for 3D printers.
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DaVinci Coders classes starting April 15th
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What do startups like Groupon, Twitter, Living Social, and Guitar Hero all have in common? They are all fast-growing startups that built their business on Ruby on Rails. Rails is the best way for beginners to learn how to build their own web applications and it comes with all the advantages of power, agility, and robustness of these top websites.
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America’s happiest companies make more money
Is there a direct connection between having happy workers and improved profitability?
A new addition of the “100 Best Companies To Work For” is released every year around this time. In this report employers deemed to have the happiest and most satisfied workers are heartily celebrated by the media.
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What are startup junkies really addicted to?
When you think about the term “startup junkie”, what comes to mind? “Junkie” is someone who has some kind of addiction but “startups” aren’t a clearly defined drug that you buy on the corner. Startups aren’t really a definable thing at all. They are more like a messy, unpredictable process. Are startup junkies addicted to uncertain processes and outcome? Most startup junkies are actually addicted to something other than the difficult task of starting and growing a profitable business.
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