Lee StognerBusiness The First Thing Great Decision Makers DoHarvard Business Review - Cassie KozyrkovGood decision-making starts with one simple habit: Commit to your default decision up front. You’ll choose it by making a judgment call about which action is the lesser evil under ignorance. Choosing default
Lee StognerPlay buttonBill Nye AI consulting startup Hypergiant brings on Bill Nye as an advisorTechCrunch - Darrell EtheringtonHypergiant, a startup launched last year to address the execution gap in bringing applied AI and machine learning technologies to bear for large companies, has signed on a high-profile new advisor to out
Lee StognerPsychology No More Bananas: A Nine-Step Journey Towards A Less Stressful LifeForbes - Jeroen KraaijenbrinkIn this age of social media, fake news, individualism and information overload, the certainties we relied on in the past are gone. In our quest for assurance and support, the only seemingly dependable
Lee StognerInvesting Maintaining Control of Your Company: What All Founders Should KnowForbes - Tim YoungThe wisest founders know to treat board composition with the same priority as deal economics. You control your board as long as the common board seats are greater than the investor seats (often called
Lee StognerPeople's Bank of China How To Read The European Union's New Guidelines On Sustainable InvestingForbes - Bhakti MirchandaniAs part of its commitment to the Paris Climate Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the European Commission developed its Action Plan on Sustainable Finance, which seeks to incorporate
Lee StognerSouth-east Asia Scaling In Southeast Asia: Lessons From The Region's Biggest StartupsForbes - Jonathan MoedSoutheast Asia’s growing technology market holds enormous promise due to the region’s massive young, tech-savvy population. But navigating the market to unlock this promise is not easy. That’s because
Lee StognerWorld Economic Forum Reading list for success – the 10 best books for entrepreneursweforum.org - Mike Colagrossi Businesses rise and fall. A chance invention transforms an entire industry, sometimes the entire world. Through the many trials and tribulations of …
Lee StognerWarren Buffett Warren Buffett Says This Is How You Can Instantly Spot a Great LeaderInc Magazine - Marcel SchwantesThe Oracle of Omaha says if you're hiring someone without this leadership trait, you want them lazy and dumb. Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, captures the world's attention with
Lee StognerInvesting These are the questions every founder should answer in their pitch to investorsQuartz - Quartz StaffAaron Levie is co-founder and CEO of the file-storage company Box, which serves 70% of the Fortune 500. He says that he completely flipped what Box promises its customers after conversations with investors.
Lee StognerInventions 3 ways to improve the patent system and protect inventorsweforum.org - David Kappos For many developing countries, the promise of innovation-fueled economic growth remains unfulfilled. Even with well-established intellectual property …
Lee StognerStartups Showpad, a sales enablement platform for presentations and other collateral, raises $70MTechCrunch - Ingrid LundenSales teams have long turned to tech solutions to help improve how they source leads, develop relationships and close deals. Now, one of the startups that helps out at a key point in that trajectory is
Lee StognerDigital Transformation Seven Strategies To Improve Your Enterprise's Digital PresenceEntrepreneur - Unni KurupTo stay competitive, companies must stop experimenting with digital and commit to transforming themselves into full digital businesses. You're reading Entrepreneur Middle East, an international franchise
Lee StognerBusiness What Startup Employees Can Teach the Rest of Us About WorkHarvard Business Review - Anand Chopra-McGowanIn the 1950s, the average age of a company on the S&P 500 index was 60. Today, that number is 20. This means that the most successful corporations are growing three times faster than they have in the To
Lee StognerStartups Here's How to Keep Your Company Culture Strong As You GrowInc Magazine - Young Entrepreneur CouncilMost startups want to achieve rapid growth. However, you can't just scale up your staff and your production output -- you also need to be able to scale your company culture. As your business expands, need
Lee StognerJohn Sculley A Conversation With John Sculley, CEO Of Apple, Pepsi And Now An Investor In Killer AI PlatformsForbes - Elizabeth MacBrideJohn Sculley is often thought of as one of the best CEOs of the late 20thcentury, a leader of Apple and Pepsi. But in his second career as a super-angel investor, he’s having arguably as much influence
Lee StognerInnovation The Unexpected History of the Air Conditionersmithsonianmag.com - Haleema Shah Working inside an office during a heatwave in June. A dinner party in July. Buying chocolate in August. If you talk to Salvatore Basile, author of …
Lee StognerTechnology 12 Interesting Startups from Collision 2019ReadWrite - Joel CommMore than 25,000 people descended upon Toronto for Collision Conference 2019. Speakers and big brands alike showed up to explore the future and how technology can be leveraged to improve quality of life.
Lee StognerTechnology Gartner finds RPA is fastest growing market in enterprise softwareTechCrunch - Ron MillerIf you asked the average person on the street what Robotic Process Automation is, most probably wouldn’t have a clue. Yet new data from Gartner finds the RPA market grew over 63% last year, making it fastest
Lee StognerMarketing These small businesses use marketing technology to do a lot with a littleFast Company - FastCo WorksThese businesses use marketing technology to run more efficient–and effective–marketing plans. Magnolia Bakery and Urban Betty, a hair salon, share the same challenge: their teams are short on time. The
Lee StognerStartups The next service marketplace wave: Vertical market-networksTechCrunch - Ivan SmolnikovThe last few decades have produced many successful marketplaces. We went from goods marketplace pioneers such as eBay and Amazon to simple service marketplaces such as Uber, Lyft, Doordash, Upwork, Thumbtack,
Lee StognerQuora What Does A Good Startup Idea Look Like?Forbes - QuoraAnswer by Joe Davy, Founder & CEO at Banzai, on Quora: OK – first, let’s dispense with the myth of the golden idea. Ideas are everywhere, and everyone has them. Most business ideas are terrible, and some
Lee StognerStartups What startup names are most effective?TechCrunch - Adam ZelcerEntrepreneurs take a long journey when naming their brainchild, comparable to a parent naming their own flesh and blood. There are many reasons behind naming – one untalked-of and probably the most important.
Lee StognerShopify Major Announcements From the Shopify Unite Conference -- Why Every Entrepreneur Should Pay AttentionEntrepreneur - Thomas SmaleShopify is at the forefront of supporting entrepreneurs -- who never imagined they would be their own bosses -- with a path to success. Most entrepreneurs know by now that one of the most powerful ways
Lee StognerEntrepreneurship Why Every Entrepreneur Needs to Learn How to Defuse FearEntrepreneur - Krister UngerboeckFear is a time bomb. Here's how to MacGyver your way out of dread's grip and become a more confident leader. According to Benjamin Franklin, the only certainties are death and taxes. But with all due to
Lee StognerBusiness Big Techs Raise Important Issues Globally Beyond Traditional Financial RisksForbes - Mayra Rodriguez ValladaresBig techs have moved into multiple financial services segments all over the world. Big technology companies (big techs), especially in Asia-Pacific and North America, have been moving into a wide range
Lee StognerInternet When Innovation and Ethics Collideieee.org - Robert W. Lucky A lot of engineers want to change the world, but how can they be sure they won’t make it worse? Illustration: Dan PageWhen I started my career, I was …
Lee StognerStartups 5 Startup Costs Most Entrepreneurs Forget to Plan For (Until It's Almost Too Late)Inc Magazine - Craig BloemYou have a great idea for a small business. You've tested it. You've established key metrics that will help you turn data into insights to help your business stay on track. You've built a financial plan
Lee StognerLeadership This is an non-obnoxious way to follow up on a cold emailFast Company - Allen GannettRemove the doubt and anxiety from your email follow-ups by following three simple steps that practically guarantee you’ll get a reply. We’ve all been the recipient of cold-email follow-ups like these.
Lee StognerWork-life Balance Which jobs make the most money?Quartz - Dan KopfImagine your goal in life was simply to make as much as much money as possible. What should you do? According to data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), you should become a doctor. Every other
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