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...
View Article11 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...
View Article5 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."...
View ArticleSeth 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleMacy'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...
View ArticleCEOs 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...
View ArticleBUSTED: 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...
View ArticleSTUDY: 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,...
View ArticleDan 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...
View Article39 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...
View ArticleHere'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...
View ArticleSTUDY: 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...
View ArticleIT'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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleBillionaire 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...
View ArticleOne-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...
View Article7 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...
View ArticleWhy 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...
View ArticleWhy 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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