Is there a website that you turn for inspiration, business tips or the latest tech tools and hacks? Ever wondered what websites entrepreneur swear by to save time and refine their skills? Here are 67 websites that entrepreneurs recommend in online forums. Canva, Trello, and Producthunt get a lot of love! The good news is […]
Bad Meetings. Amazon boss Jeff Bezos banned PowerPoint presentations from ‘em; Elon Musk has famously encouraged walkouts. The bane of many lives. As the saying goes: minutes are kept in meetings but hours are lost. Workers on average waste 61% of their time coordinating their work in meetings, email, and chat rather than actually doing […]
The original cubicle had a standing desk, a private space and slotted together like lego. What happened to the cubicle? Before the cubicle, clerical workers sat at small desks in straight rows, often facing the same way. It was a factory production line that produced nothing but paper. It was a classroom without a teacher. […]
As publisher of over 50 science magazines, Hugo Gernsback had a lot of be distracted from. A ringing telephone or a doorbell, Gernsback complained, was enough to stop the flow of thought. But 50% of the time, he concluded, we are our own disturbers. “The greatest difficulty that the human mind has to contend with […]
Mobile phones have become an extension of ourselves. How often you check your phone depends on when you were born… Were you born in the 1980s and 1990s? You probably get anxious if you haven’t checked your phone in 15 minutes. Those born between 1965 and 1979 are more relaxed. Only 42% tend to get uneasy […]
Well, this guy nailed it. Can you describe YOUR startup in one sentence? The one-sentence startup pitch or high concept pitch is easily mocked. In fact, there’s a Facebook group dedicated to doing just that. Members suggest hilarious one-sentence descriptions for real (and how-it-not-a-thing) companies. Most pitches follow the “Tinder for____” formula: A […]
Employees get 1% of their working week to focus on training and development. Yet, we live in a culture where companies look to hire “learning animals”. The perfect employee has the smarts to handle massive change and the character to love it. IBM found that when deprived of advancement opportunities, learning animals were 12 times more likely to […]
When you let your mind wander, you engage a brain circuit called the “default mode network” (DMN) . Dipping into our deep storehouse of memories, ideas, and emotions plugs us into our DMN. Which was thought of as our “Mostly Do Nothing” circuit. Until recently. Turns out, the “resting” DMN uses 20% of the body’s […]
What price your data soul Verizon is betting that price of your data soul is a shot at free concert tickets, Uber rides or Apple Music tune. A new loyalty program will apparently shower you with “experiences you won’t stop talking about” and “rewards you really, really want”. All you have to do is spend […]
Want to appear smart in meetings with minimal effort? Without further delay, let’s put a horn on that donkey and call it a unicorn. The Dominator Ask open ended questions that require no knowledge whatsoever on your part but will certainly eat up at least 20 minutes of meeting time. Try: Have you considered the […]
A neural network system has learned to name craft beer from a huge dataset extracted from BeerAdvocate.com. Credit: Lewis and Quark Researcher and electrical engineer Janelle Shane has already trained AI to name kittens, metal bands, Pokemon, paint colors, and more. The AI-generated craft beer names vary from likely, to weirdly impressive, to bet-level […]
Imagine that thirty million people visit one of your shops each week, and 25 million use your app. That’s the story of Target, the giant retailer. Digital sales accounted for only 3% to 4% of all of Target’s overall sales in 2015, putting it near the bottom of the top 12 retailers, according to eMarketer. […]
Silicon Valley Bank – specialist lender to technology, innovation and med-tech companies – is doubling the amount it’s lending to Irish companies. So far, it’s committed funds to 15 Irish businesses including AMCS, Amplience, Accuris, Boxever, Clavis Insight, Diona, Fieldaware, Lincor, Logentries, Movidius and Profitero. Here’s what David Flanagan, CEO of Boxever, had to say […]
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