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Cheaper Internet coming for rural areas
Look up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's … Google's Project Loon?! Google is testing solar-powered hot air balloons in New Zealand that can beam high-speed Internet to rural areas, bypassing wires and bypassing the ground. This project is the latest from the super-secret Google X ...
Silicon Valley's Hottest Matchmaker
What began as a social gathering for like-minded entrepreneurs and VCs has evolved into one of the Valley's most dynamic accelerators. Meet the man with the connections, Saeed Amidi.When international entrepreneurs want a shot at Silicon Valley stardom, they call on Saeed Amidi.The angel investor is the son of Amir ...
Making Sense of Yahoo's Puzzling Acquisition Strategy
Marissa Mayer is on the verge of completing 14 Yahoo acquisitions in just six months. Will she reinvent Yahoo?With Marissa Mayer at the helm, Yahoo is on an acquisition tear. One month after the company's $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr, AllThingsD reported yesterday that Yahoo is in talks to purchase ...
'Always Be Explaining': Your Sales Team's New Mantra
The one thing your sales team needs to improve? Explaining, says Lee LeFever, founder of Common Craft. Here's how.People rarely buy products they don't understand, so it's a salesman's job to explain them. But what if your explanation is so organic it's pointless?Perhaps you suffer from the curse of knowledge--knowing ...
Web Tools to Blur Your Digital Footprint
The NSA won't stop snooping on you, but you can throw them off your trail. Here are some tools to help you go private.Revelations of NSA surveillance have shaken the nation, but while many of us would love nothing more than to toss our phones out the window and avoid ...
NSA Surveillance: What to Know So Far
Facebook is just one Internet giant that has released its NSA stats to reassure users. Here's a round-up of the others, and their numbers.Consumers haven't been able to look at Silicon Valley the same way ever since news broke of a long-running government program called PRISM. Of course, the nine ...
Cheaper Internet coming for rural areas
Look up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's … Google's Project Loon?! Google is testing solar-powered hot air balloons in New Zealand that can beam high-speed Internet to rural areas, bypassing wires and bypassing the ground. This project is the latest from the super-secret Google X ...
7 Super Entrepreneurship Lessons from "Man of Steel"
Superman as an entrepreneur? Not exactly, but you just may walk away from "Man of Steel" with inspiration for your business.Over the weekend my wife and I and a friend saw Man of Steel--the latest reboot of the Superman franchise. Note: Spoilers below! If you haven't seen the movie yet, ...
Mark Suster: 'Silicon Valley Will Always Produce the Big Hits'
The seasoned VC says Silicon Valley will remain a tech hub for years, but Silicon Alley, with its focus on content, is paving the way for exciting changes.What's in a name? A lot, according to Mark Suster, founder and CEO of Build Online and an investor with the Los Angeles-based ...
Trucks Are Trendy (and Not Just for Food Anymore)
Businesses in all kinds of industries are going mobile and bringing their goods directly to customers.Mobile may be the new thing for businesses, but there's an old way to put a twist on the concept. Pack your business onto a truck. Although food trucks now have a reality show, forgoing ...
When to Invest in Biotech -- and When to Just Say No
Great research doesn't always lead to great medicine -- and sometimes forming a company can actually get in the way.Say you’re a healthcare entrepreneur. And say you meet a brilliant immunologist at the American Society of Clinical Oncology conference, and she has very exciting data demonstrating full tumor regression in ...
5 Productivity Strategies From the Mind of Richard Feynman
Nobel-prizewinning physicist Richard Feynman was an eccentric within the scientific community. But he sure got a lot done.In the book, Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!, Richard Feynman, a Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist, relates a story about an ant he found near his bathtub. Instead of squishing the bug, Feynman put ...
The Great Business Book Purge
I just dumped (and donated) 300 books. But the rest you'll have to pry from my cold, dead fingers.Two weeks ago, I dumped more than 300 business books.“Dumped” sounds harsh. The purge wasn’t as bloody as all that. Many were unbound galleys stamped with dire warnings not to quote, reproduce, ...
Home buyers, sellers and mortgage lenders gives thumbs up
NEW YORK (MainStreet) — What’s the key to a healthy housing market? Simple: a big supply of willing buyers matched by a big supply of willing sellers. Plus generous, easy-going lenders. Lenders, though still kind of stingy, are loosening the purse strings a bit, and those buyers and sellers are ...
Perception gap exists between employers and job-seekers
NEW YORK (MainStreet) — At perhaps a bad time in U.S. employment, it seems there’s a “perception gap” between what workers think they’re worth on the job and how employers see them.Analysis by Bryant & Stratton College with help from Wakefield Research from a survey among U.S. adults age 18 ...
4 Lessons Jeff Bezos Learned From Failure
If you examine Amazon's grocery delivery service, AmazonFresh, you can clearly see a strategy centered on failure.Only one father of the dot-com boom is still innovating today--Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos.Let's look at one of Bezos’ innovation initiatives; its grocery delivery service, AmazonFresh. E-groceries is a small, unprofitable market, but Bezos ...
The Next Big Thing? 5 Expert Predictions
At Bloomberg's Next Big Thing conference, industry thinkers talked about what they think will be the wave(s) of the future. Do you agree?What's the next biggest thing in technology? Depends on who you ask.A number of industry thinkers and innovators did some crystal ball-gazing Monday at Bloomberg's Next Big Thing ...
Mayor Bloomberg Wants Stanford Techies to Move to New York
You can't beat the nightlife or business opportunities, said Michael Bloomberg during his Stanford commencement speech Sunday. Translation: Silicon Alley should be the next tech hub.New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg believes in Silicon Alley so much, he wouldn't be surprised if Stanford graduates started moving there. “I believe that ...
NSA Surveillance: What to Know So Far
Facebook is just one Internet giant that has released its NSA stats to reassure users. Here's a round-up of the others, and their numbers.Consumers haven't been able to look at Silicon Valley the same way ever since news broke of a long-running government program called PRISM. Of course, the nine ...
As Obamacare looms, manufacturers brace for the worst
More than 80 percent of manufacturers see health care costs as their top business concernAnother day, another survey about Obamacare.About a week ago, we reported on a survey of hiring among small- and medium-sized businesses, which found the Affordable Care Act to be only a minor factor in determining the ...
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