Keri Ferry started her own women’s clothing company because she couldn’t find anything to wear. The former financier thought many other professional women likely shared her frustration and sought to remedy the problem with 25 Bedford.
I learned in college that there were a lot of people who had far higher IQs than myself. Somehow, I recognized that these people didn’t threaten my success but were actually great resources to help me learn faster and get things done more quickly and effectively.
You often hear the old saying, “The only constant is change.” Since this is demonstrably true, we all have a lot of experience with change processes in our organizations. So then, why do these efforts regularly fail?
At the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, five wooden ships are National Historic Landmarks and are the big attraction among the maritime items there.
When you’re not watching your TV, it can be transformed into a work of art with Artkick. The startup company is looking to change how people view art similarly to what Pandora and Spotify did for music.
Dan O’Connell knows what it’s like to be fired. Unfortunately for him, he just can’t escape the person who keeps giving him the old heave-ho.
Discovery is a foundational characteristic of entrepreneurship, a topic that gets a lot of ink this month with our coverage of the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™ Awards.
Nanometer-scale semiconductor fabrication capabilities have allowed chipmakers to pack more transistors into increasingly smaller silicon real estate. As a result, the heat generated by microprocessors, and other semiconductors in general, has risen dramatically, whether in a laptop or in the world’s most powerful supercomputers.
One of the quotes I share with each new employee, or “Flyer,” as we call them, is that, “We drink from wells we did not
After 15 years of growing and leading Branders.com, I recently sold the company. Now I’m on to my next project. I may have time left for two, or at most three, more endeavors. Does that sound like enough? Consider this: About 75 percent of startups fail. Not great odds. Which is why I’m focused on a way to improve them.
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