A survey sheds light on how startup CEOs deploy a battery of coaches, therapists, and support groups in order to thrive.
Mark Zuckerberg. Steve Jobs. Elon Musk. Tony Stark. Only one of those four is fictional, but all share in a popular mythology that the most successful CEOs are independent visionaries who create value through sheer inspiration and force of will.
Apple hits a new price point with the new SE, but doesn’t sacrifice much quality or many features to get there.
Saying this might make Apple’s marketing people wail and gnash their teeth, but here goes: The company’s new iPhone SE is a value phone. And its $399 price tag might be the magic sub-$400 number that gets many would-be iPhone buyers in the door and buying Apple apps, services, and content for the first time.
For a monthly fee, AND CO takes care of financial paperwork and tracks projects, offering structured support for the self-employed.
The number of nontraditional careers, from traditional freelancing to multi-job juggling in the gig economy, has only grown since the Great Recession. But taking the reins of your own employment means handling a litany of invoices, payments, expenses, and tax forms yourself. The startup AND CO launched a little over a month ago to support the freelancer lifestyle.
PBS Digital Studios animated a 53-year-old interview with Rod Serling in which he talks about childhood creativity.
“Some liars go to prison, others write television shows,” said Rod Serling. Luckily for TV history, Serling falls into the latter camp—he created the kooky science fiction series The Twilight Zone in 1959.
The telecom giant, which is in talks to acquire Yahoo, wants a piece of the digital content revolution.
It’s barely noon and the teenage girls at AOL’s live studio in downtown Manhattan are already doing the giggle-scream, their excitement at the sight of Beau Mirchoff, star of MTV’s Awkward, bubbling over into shrieks and Snapchats.
Facebook could win a class action lawsuit over its facial recognition feature if this BIPA amendment passes in Illinois.
One way to avoid difficult legislation is to change the law altogether.
The cofounder of Google Analytics explains how he’s borrowing what he liked best at Google to build his new startup’s culture.
I spent nearly 10 years at Google doing all kinds of stuff. I watched the company grow, change, get better, get worse, make mistakes, find solutions, and evolve—all from the inside. Some things I saw were brilliant, others less so. But now that I’m building my own startup, there are a few key aspects of Google’s work culture that I’ve taken with me. Here are four of them.
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