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Enter To Win A Kindle Fire From Business Insider
We're giving you a chance to win a Kindle Fire HD. Become a newsletter subscriber now to enter. If you're the lucky winner you will have a host of features at your fingertips. Entry deadline is May...
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Brooklyn Realtor Is Giving A 15% Raise To Workers Who Get A Tattoo Of Their Logo
A Brooklyn real estate company has offered employees one of the nuttiest pay incentives we've ever heard of –– get a tattoo of the company logo and get a 15% raise.Anthony Lolli, founder of Rapid...
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JCPenney Spent An Absurd Amount Of Money Hiring Ron Johnson's Failed...
JCPenney spent $170 million hiring failed CEO Ron Johnson and his top three executives. About 18 months later, all those executives are gone, reports Matt Townsend at Bloomberg News. Johnson left...
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Only 65% of College Presidents Say It's 'Very Important' That Grads Get Good...
Gallup released a survey probing the various and sundry opinions of some 889 college and university presidents about the state of higher ed, and a few of their results have left me at a complete...
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Mining Billionaire And CEO Ivan Glasenberg Does Not Believe In Work-Life Balance
Most people, even CEOs, consider work-life balance an admirable goal. And the idea that workplace connections and time together away from the desk boost performance is gaining more and more traction....
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A New Generation Of Philanthropists Is Changing Everything
Steel magnate Andrew Carnegie once said that he who dies leaving behind many millions will "pass away unwept, unhonored and unsung." That philosophy took root in much of the last century, with major...
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What Every Entrepreneur Can Learn From Y Combinator Without Actually Going
Back in 2010, my startup FlightCaster had hit some serious obstacles and we needed to pivot. We had set a deadline for ourselves for some metrics and we failed to meet them. It was a bruising time....
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Foreign Entrepreneurs Are Creating Tons Of US Jobs, But Americans Still Hate...
SHAYAN ZADEH, the co-founder of Zoosk, a popular online-dating service based in San Francisco, is worried.In the current debate on immigration, few realise that foreign-born entrepreneurs create jobs...
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12 Colleges That Aren't Worth The Money
Is getting a bachelor's degree still worth the cost?Payscale, a salary data provider, answered this question by comparing the average cost of education to predicted income over 30 years for graduates...
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Advertisers' Branded YouTube Videos Are Losing Their Cool Factor
In the many annual fake-out April Fools videos produced by Google this year, one practical joke involved some humor that probably hit a little too close to home for many video content producers: the...
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3 Ways Being A Bad Listener Hurts Your Career
The way you listen is telling, a compass that points to the true focus of your attention.For good listeners, that needle points to the person talking.For bad listeners, that needle points to...
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College Is Totally Worth It At These Schools
Deciding which college to attend may make all the difference in your lifetime earning potential.And the colleges and universities on this list prove that a degree in engineering is definitely worth the...
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Employees Share 18 Of The Most Ridiculous Office Rules
Recently a 16-year old was arrested for a science experiment that went wrong. The incident sparked a question raised on Reddit asking users to give examples of harsh or absurd rules from work and...
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Your Workspace And Your Soul
What does your workspace look like? How does it affect your ability to think straight? Is it a cage for you to inhabit or a canvas for you to paint your future on?There is a different ideal for...
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WARREN BUFFETT: We've Made A 'Terrible Mistake' With Treatment Of Women In...
Following his Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting yesterday, Warren Buffett was on "This Week" on ABC getting interviewed by Rebecca Jarvis.A lot of his commentary about the economy was standard...
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4 Signs It's Time To Fire An Employee
Not everyone is going to fit in with the mission and goals of your company. Keeping an employee around who isn't contributing positively can really hurt a company—especially a small business where...
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Constellation CEO On Year-Old Exelon Merger: 'We're Off To A Good Start'
This post is sponsored by Constellation.When Constellation merged with Exelon in March 2012, the resulting company immediately became one of the largest power providers in the United States.One year...
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Why Wall Streeters Lose Their Personalities
I used to work with a guy that had everything on the surface, but absolutely nothing inside. The guy was 6 feet tall, good-looking, charismatic, multi-lingual, graduated from a top business school, and...
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How I Used Kickstarter To Get Published And Launch A National Book Tour
Last year, my family of three spent the summer in Tokyo, squeezed into a tiny apartment, riding hundreds of trains, and eating the best food of our lives.It was a great and surprisingly relaxing...
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Jack Dorsey Was 'Heartbroken' When Instagram Sold To Facebook
It's been a little over one year since Facebook acquired Instagram for $1 billion in cash and stock. For one of Instagram's early investors, Jack Dorsey, the acquisition is still a painful...
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