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Alice Lee, The UPenn Student Who Skipped 4 Classes To Make A Viral Instagram...

In February, Alice Lee got her first taste of viral fame. The UPenn student skipped four classes to create an amazing resume/website called Dear Instagram - With Love, Alice. Lee spent 2.5 days...

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11 Ways To Quit Your Job And Be More Successful

The only way to secure your financial future is to work for yourself. At least that's what Scott Gerber, author of Never Get A Real Job. thinks. "Now, more than ever, you need to be entrepreneurial to...

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5 Tips On Getting Investors To Hand Over Money For Your Startup

Investor Bob Rice has helped a lot of startups get off the ground. He says entrepreneurs have a limited time window to impress VCs and should present their idea "almost like a headline in a newspaper."...

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Seth Godin Explains The True Power Of Consumers Today

Marketers say that consumers now have more power than ever because of technology, but where does that power actually come from? It doesn't come from consumers' ability to make a big fuss out of some...

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A Steak Lunch With Warren Buffett Now Costs $3.5 Million

The value of a private lunch with the Oracle of Omaha just skyrocketed. An anonymous individual paid $3.5 million yesterday in an annual charity auction that lets the winning bidder lunch with Warren...

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Macy's Has Hired A Huge Cohort Of New College Grads To Fill Its Executive...

Macy's has hired 730 new college grads for full-time gigs in its Executive Development Program and 326 current students for summer internships. That's 1,056 total hires. This is a big new cohort for...

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CEOs Are The Only People Who Care About Corporate Logos

There are three things the CEO’s running Corporate America truly care about. The size of their pay package, which usually enjoys an inverse relationship to their company’s revenues, profits and stock...

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BUSTED: Half Of These Companies' Twitter Followers Are Bots

Up to 46 percent of Twitter followers of companies with active profiles could be generated by robots, or bots, a study by Marco Camisani Calzolari, a corporate communication and digital languages...

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STUDY: Even A Pay Raise Won't Make A Neurotic Person Happy

A recent psychological study found that more is less, at least when it comes to making a neurotic person happier on pay day.  Neurotic people are more prone to feeling anxious, sad or depressed,...

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Dan Ariely Explains Why Everyone Lies All The Time

Don't kid yourself. You lie all the time. Behavioral economist Dan Ariely examines the reasons for lying and cheating in his new book "The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty." Ariely sat down with...

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39 New Scientific Concepts That Everyone Should Understand

The editors over at Edge.org asked some of the most influential thinkers in the world — including neuroscientists, physicists and mathematicians — what they believe are the most important scientific...

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Here's One Thing That Would Keep People From Accepting Their Dream Job

Not a lot of rewards beat cold, hard cash, and despite cash bonuses not being as common as they used to be a couple of years ago, workers still want cash in their bonus package.  In fact, a Wall Street...

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STUDY: 3 Personality Traits You Need To Get Rich

A new study from the University of Warwick singles out three personality traits that'll help you get rich: openness, conscientiousness and motivation. i The reason they matter, according to one of the...

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IT'S TRUE: If You're Not Getting Enough Sleep, You'll Probably Get Fat

Could your lack of sleep be causing you to reach for that extra glazed doughnut the next morning? According to two new studies, sleeping fewer hours than your body needs impacts how you interpret...

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A Banker Shares The Worst Advice She Ever Got As An Analyst

As a newbie/analyst on Wall Street, you're bound to have a ton of questions —and yeah, you're going to be surrounded by people with experience but that doesn't mean that they'll: a. Care b. Know what...

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Billionaire Carlos Slim Says Everyone Should Work Until They're 70

Billionaire Carlos Slim Helu told the Mexican press his solution for the global economic crisis: raise the retirement age to 70.  According to Forbes, he said that "the ideal work schedule should be...

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One-Third Of All Those Dead Borders Stores Are Still Empty

Borders, the failed bookselling giant that once had over 600 outposts across America, is still struggling long after the last of its stores has closed. A survey cited by The Wall Street Journal and...

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7 Cognitive Biases That Could Sabotage Your Next Presentation

Tara Hunt, CEO and co-founder of Buyosphere explains in a presentation on Slideshare that you need to train your brain to stop sabotaging itself if you want to succeed as a presenter. "Our instinctual...

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Why Startups Fail [Infographic]

Startup Genome analyzed 3,200 high-growth technology startups to answer this daunting question: Why do startups fail? It came away with this beautiful, informative infographic: And don't miss: Why Some...

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Why Highly Intelligent People Fail At The Most Important Things In Life

Satoshi Kanazawa is Reader in Management at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Psychology at Birkbeck College, University of London....

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