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The Huge Potential Of Investing In Products For America’s Neediest
When a hard-nosed venture capital firm like Andreessen Horowitz puts money into your startup, you know you have money-making potential. Brooklyn fintech startup Propel has long had users for its app...
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How To Take Feedback From A Manager You Can’t Stand
While feedback is intended to improve your performance, that doesn’t mean you’ll always agree with or even understand it. The greatest of managers are still occasionally going to tear apart a project...
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How I Overcame The Guilt Of Quitting A Job Where I Felt Needed
It’s nice to be needed. Like a lot of people, I take great pride in knowing that I’m an integral part of a team, and I’ve worked hard to establish myself as a crucial asset to my employers—past and...
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Inside The Creative Problem Solving Of Broadway Film Adaptations
Films adapted to Broadway and vice-versa is by no means an even exchange. Both share the common creative challenge of avoiding a straight regurgitation of an existing work. However, filmmakers have a...
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Brawny Uses Snapchat Spectacles To Give Us A Toddler-Eye View Of Mom
If you’ve ever been a parent of young children or spent any amount of time at all around the wee ones, chances are you’ve asked yourself the question, “what are they thinking?” While Brawny’s new...
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Care About The Environment? Get Yourself A Fancy New .Eco Website
The dot-com suffix at the end of URLs was originally intended to represent companies, just as dot orgs were meant for nonprofit organizations. As the idea of the web has expanded, the list of suffixes,...
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At Build, Microsoft’s Vision Of The Future Workplace Looks Both Helpful...
At its Build developer conference in Seattle, Microsoft brought to life a vision of the workplace of the future where workers are surrounded by all manner of cameras, sensors, and other recording...
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For Startups, The Arrival Of Amazon’s Echo Show Is A Reminder Of The...
A couple of months ago, Nucleus cofounder Morley Ivers believed his smart intercom startup was enjoying a “real partnership” with Amazon. Nucleus had received a major investment from Amazon through the...
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How Big Bad Data Could Make Policing Worse
In early 2017, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced a new initiative in the city’s ongoing battle with violent crime. The most common solutions to this sort of problem involve hiring more police...
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Why Your Mind-Set Won’t Save Your Career
“The notion that we can go to college for four years and then spend that knowledge for the next 30 is over,” Thomas Friedman announced in yesterday’s New York Times. “If you want to be a lifelong...
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It Will Take More Than Rainbow Vomit To Turn Around Snap’s Slowing Growth
On Wednesday, the parent company of the Snapchat app announced its first earnings since going public three months ago—and it wasn’t pretty. The company reported a loss of $2.2 billion and missed...
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W. Kamau Bell On Why Awkward Conversations Will Change Your Life
Perhaps nobody should talk to noted white nationalist, Richard Spencer, he of the face-punch heard ‘round the world. If someone does have to speak with Spencer, however, and on TV at that, it’s for the...
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How My Seemingly Pointless Internship Unexpectedly Helped My Career
What can you learn from reviewing Excel reports or by weaving through Chinatown’s Canal Street traffic with a handcart stacked with mail? Maybe not much, but I’ve done both.Internships usually aren’t...
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Why The Dell Foundation Is Betting Big On Social Entrepreneurs
Experts within the philanthropy sector should consider funding fresh ideas from social entrepreneurs as much (if not more) than massive grants aimed at traditional programmatic solutions, many of which...
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Trump’s Claim That Comey Told Him He’s Off The Hook Just...
When former high-ranking FBI officials read one particular line in President Trump’s statement on the firing of James Comey on Tuesday evening, it just seemed odd. After bluntly informing the FBI...
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The First Food Tech Accelerator In China Is Funding Silkworm Flour And Fancy...
When a Chinese newspaper broke a story in January about a ring of underground factories making counterfeit soy sauce–packaged in brand name bottles, but made with dirty water and carcinogenic...
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Can Using An App Help End Workplace Harassment?
Stories of toxic company culture have become commonplace recently, including serious ethical breaches at Wells Fargo, Volkswagen, Uber, and more. Often, a big contributing factor is the lack of ways to...
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Six Ways You’re Turning Off Everyone Who’s Trying To Help You...
You already know that asking for help in your job search is a smart thing to do—that’s why you did it. Research suggests that the vast majority of job offers come by networking (no surprise there), but...
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There’s No Such Thing As “Men’s Work” And This Photo...
Last year, photographer Chris Crisman was at lunch with some associates when one of them mentioned that her friend recently switched careers and is now a butcher. Realizing that he had never met a...
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Meal Kits May Be Winning Us Over—And Unilever Wants A Seat At The Table
Unilever Ventures is diving into meal kits with an investment in Sun Basket, a do-it-yourself meal-subscription service focused on organic foods and “clean” eating. The $9.2 million investment comes as...
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