Women and minorities don’t participate in accelerators at the same rates as white men. A new virtual program aims to change that.
Most accelerators require entrepreneurs to spend three to six months in residence, which can be difficult for women entrepreneurs, particularly if they have families. So, in 2015, serial entrepreneur and former investment banker Carolyn Rodz founded Circular Board, a virtual 90-day accelerator for women entrepreneurs.
Even if you aren’t working nights and weekends, the expectation of constant availability can cause you to burn out.
It’s 9 p.m. and you suddenly remember that you wanted to ask your employee about an upcoming project. Before you fire off an email, ask yourself, “Is this urgent?” If you’re sending the email simply because you don’t want to forget, your employee may not know your response expectations, and this can cause stress that negatively impacts your staff’s productivity and performance.
Indeed combed millions of anonymous employee ratings on Fortune 500 companies to generate this list of top employers.
Finding a good balance between work and the rest of your life is a constant challenge for the connected employee—even when they’re in a dream job and have an empathetic supervisor.
The comfort shoe company has found a way to jump on fashion trends while staying true to its loyal, lifelong customers.
“It happens every several years,” says David Kahan, CEO of Birkenstock USA, the American division of the German company. “The planets line up and Birkenstocks become fashionable again.”
The 737-sized Aquila is meant to fly on solar power at altitudes of 60,000 feet or more and deliver wireless Internet for three months at a time.
At dawn on June 28, one future vision of mobile broadband Internet connectivity for as many as 1.6 billion people took to the sky for the first time.
Advanced sequencing technologies are the centerpiece of an ambitious project to identify 70,000 fallen soldiers by 2020.
“In Vietnam, religious traditions hold that the ghosts of the dead cannot rest without a proper burial in a place appropriate to the family,” explains William Frasure, a professor of government at Connecticut College who has both lived and worked in the country. And yet, tombstones throughout the country still bear little else than the words “liet sy—chua diet ten,” which translates to “martyr—name unknown.”
Say goodbye to Skype calls. Here are four ways VR technology is already shaping up to change the future of work.
The scene: An empty conference room, five years from now. You sit down at the table with your tablet and put on a pair of lightweight glasses. Suddenly the room comes to life. To your left, you see your colleague Jessica, who’s joining from New York. To the right, the company CEO, Beth, who’s currently in Atlanta. Across the table from you is Hassan, who’s joining from his home office in London.
Award-winning photojournalist Paula Bronstein shares what’s in her camera bag, from SLR to software.
Anyone can take a photo: just point your camera and fire away. Taking a photo that transcends language to communicate dread, happiness, or heartache is, however, a singular talent. It requires compassion, a patient eye, and a lifetime of practice.
Meet Magento, the biggest e-commerce company you’ve never heard of and the CEO who navigated its sale.
Magento is the archetype of the company whose products you use but you’ve never heard of: Their open-source platform is used by tens of thousands of e-commerce sites and corporate clients around the world, ranging from the biggest of the big box stores to corporate titans like Nike to small mom-and-pop retail stores. Magento works quietly in the background, making sure that when you order a product, the workflow of finding it in the warehouse and shipping it to you begins. Over $50 billion in gross merchandise sales goes through Magento’s platforms each year, the company says.
Pitching free ideas may seem like the cost of doing business nowadays, but there are better ways to land coveted projects.
Unpaid pitching: a controversial topic in the creative industry. For some, unpaid pitching is simply part of the business — a necessary evil to win new clients and projects. For others, it’s seen as an exploitative practice, and the movement against it has gained significant momentum in the industry.
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