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Why We Should Should Invest In More Women-Owned Startups [INFOGRAPHIC]
Though progress is slow, women are starting to get more and more involved in the startup world. They're on more founding teams, and are joining boards of directors at a faster rate than ever...
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Why Every Corporation Should Employ A Futurist
Most people and corporations are terrible at planning for the future, according to prominent futurist Dr. Peter Bishop of the University of Houston."The way the public — and particularly the way policy...
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Ugg Needs To Realize Boots Are Going Out Of Style
Sales are down at Ugg, and executives are desperate to figure out why and fix the problem.The company blames the decline on unseasonably warm winters, but some analysts say there's a bigger problem at...
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There Are 5 Core Myths That Mess Up Our Decision Making
According to Betty Sue Flowers, the former director of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and a Professor Emeritus at the University Of Texas, there's a group of 5 nearly invisible, but very deeply held...
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Business Insider Employees Model What You Should (And Shouldn't) Wear To Work...
Just because the weather's getting colder doesn't give you an excuse to neglect your fashion sense. Although the workplace has become more casual, your ensemble still plays a role in the way you're...
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What It Takes To Launch A $60 Million Designer Clothing Business
When it comes to fashion, Trina Turk makes decisions on the basis of what makes her happy. But when it comes to business, she has learned to be methodical. Turk, who learned to sew at 11, launched her...
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Businesses Are Testing Out Paying Employees For Going To The Gym
Rising healthcare costs are a threat to the country through our growing debt, and to companies through their bottom line. One of the most effective ways to bring down costs is to eliminate preventable...
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After Selling $300,000 In Underwear He Didn't Have On Kickstarter, Jake...
When Jake Bronstein posted his first Kickstarter campaign, he wasn't expecting much.He set up a $30,000 goal on the crowdfunding site. He just wanted to test the waters and see if his idea for a...
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American Giant CEO Explains Why US Manufacturing Isn't Dead
Apparel retailers think that they can save a lot of money by outsourcing their manufacturing operations overseas, but American Giant CEO Bayard Winthrop says that you can still produce goods...
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How Amazon's Unconventional Business Model Changed Me From Hater To Customer...
In a recent Economist article, “Taking the Long View,” arguments are made that perhaps the non-stop pursuit of short term shareholder value, rather than long term results might, in essence, be self...
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Jack Dorsey's Life Lessons
These days, Jack Dorsey, the chairman of Twitter and CEO of Square, gives speeches at conferences and posts 140-character koans of business wisdom.But in Twitter's younger days, he dispensed a far more...
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The Four Types Of People You'll Meet -- And How To Deal With The Crappy Ones
Ugh, I’m disgusted with my brain. I see people walking down the street and there’s like this killer inside me providing running nasty commentary about each person. Do you do this also?I have to stop...
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Why The World's Most Sustainable Company Publishes CO2 Emissions Next To Its...
There's a difference between a company having a sustainability program and actually being sustainable. The difference is measurement. When you have data on what your efforts are accomplishing, you can...
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How 'Posh Life Bling' Got Its Products In The Hands Of So Many Celebrities
Tori Torres made a profit the first week her product hit eBay.Within five years she landed her first celebrity client.Now, eleven years after its launch, Posh Life Bling has Beyoncé, Jessica Alba,...
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Vocabulary And Words Can Be Twice As Important As Math And Science
Education expert E.D. Hirsch, Jr., writing in the Wall Street Journal:“The federal government reported this month that students’ vocabulary scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress...
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Pebble Raised $10.3 Million On Kickstarter, But It Isn't Telling The 69,000...
UPDATE:Kickstarter just posted a new article on its blog addressing the following issues: "Is Lateness a Feature?"In May, Pebble became the most funded Kickstarter project of all time when it raised...
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How Job Seekers Can Boost Their Productivity
It's easy for job seekers to fall in a black hole of despair and unproductivity as days go by without employment.The less you do, the less confidence you have in yourself, and the less attractive you...
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Here’s Why So Many Innovation Initiatives Fail
Wouldn’t it be great if you could do customer service like Zappos? Or design like Apple? Or innovation like 3M?Who wouldn’t want to be like those firms?Well, it’s not so simple.Barry Dalton wrote an...
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Just in time for the holidays we're giving you have a chance to win an iPad mini. Become a newsletter subscriber now and you'll have a chance to win Apple's latest tablet. If you're the lucky winner...
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30 People With 'Soft' College Majors Who Became Extremely Successful
Recently, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen said that he believed in the value of college, but mostly for math-based majors like engineering, rather than "softer stuff," like English. "I'm sure it's...
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