Category: Tools and Information

What Google Learned Fighting Hiring Bias, Bad Meetings and Failing Products | Entrepreneur

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Starting and managing a business is no easy feat, even for Google

While it’s currently one of the most powerful and respected businesses in the world, nearly 20 years ago it was just a small group of people working at a very typical startup, all-nighters and all.

“The founders [Larry Page and Sergey Brin] built the company in the image of what they saw at Stanford graduate school,” Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google and current chairman, told Reid Hoffman on Masters of Scale, a podcast series examining counterintuitive theories to growing a company. He added, “that graduate student culture, that sense that somehow we’re about to discover something new, permeated the decision-making, and traditional experience wasn’t present.”

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What Really Caused the Hindenburg Disaster? | Live Science

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When the massive Hindenburg airship made its debut, it was heralded as the future of luxury air travel, but after a trans-Atlantic flight on May 6, 1937, the German passenger airship was suddenly engulfed in flames and crashed as it attempted to land at the Naval Air Station in Lakehurst, New Jersey. The disaster killed 35 people and became a symbol of the end of the airship era.

Now, 80 year later, speculation still swirls about what happened on that fateful evening in May, so what is it that brought down the Hindenburg?

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Using tech to protect your brand from violating child labor laws | Fast Casual

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Before taking on the restaurant software business, I worked in and managed many restaurants, so I’ve had my fair share of experiences managing younger employees. And it’s not always easy. Between the onboarding and training, the teaching, the course-correcting, and sometimes the disciplinary action, this industry can teach you a lot about patience.

It also teaches managers a thing or two about compliance. The restaurant industry employs a disproportionate number of youths. Between 2010 and 2012, for instance, 30 percent of fast food workers were 16 to 19 years old.

When it comes to managing minors, the risk of being out of compliance with labor laws are more substantial than other industries.

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Fortune 500: McKesson Is Feeling the Pain | Fortune.com

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As America’s opioid epidemic continues to spiral—to devastating effect in states like West Virginia—prosecutors and plaintiffs have taken aim at the nation’s largest drug distributor. What is the company doing to stop the plague?

One evening last fall, Martin West finally reached his breaking point. The sheriff and treasurer of McDowell County, W.Va., was watching the local news when a report about the deepening opioid crisis came on. What he learned that night incensed him.

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Adweek Puts a Spotlight on Chicago, the Brand Hub That’s Become a Capital of Culture | Adweek

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The best dinner of your life. Your next job. The next great startup. All could easily be waiting for you in Chicago.

To those in Chicago, all this is obvious fact. But there’s always been a sort of veil around the city that keeps the rest of the world from appreciating or even understanding the scope of what it has to offer. Perhaps it’s the region’s signature Midwestern humility, or maybe it’s simply a matter of geographic distance from other major urban markets (Chicago is 800 miles from New York and 2,000 from Los Angeles).

Whatever the reason, if you haven’t been paying attention to Chicago, you’ve been missing a hell of a lot. Corporations are moving back downtown from the suburbs, the tech industry is advancing today’s hottest emerging fields, agencies are producing some of the world’s best marketing and the culinary scene—always one of the nation’s best—is absolutely overloaded with inventive food, unique destinations, a legion of craft brewers and much more.

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What Today’s Small Businesses Can Do to Beat Giant Competitors | PROFITguide.com

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Retail used to be about shelf space. Own those precious inches, and you controlled the consumer relationships. But the multitude of new buying channels enabled by e-commerce platforms has exponentially widened the shelf. Small brands now have far more control over who sees and has access to their products, as well as where and how.

The decision between two products no longer comes down to how they look side by side in-store, but how well the mission and vision of the companies producing them are communicated through a screen. Consumers are hungry for information on which to base their choices, so it’s imperative that small businesses tell their stories. That’s creating a new class of “craft” brands, which thrive on their uniqueness and connection to their customers.

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Overcome the Challenges of Online Trading with These Workarounds | CoolBusinessIdeas.com

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Are you a newbie to online trading? Do you want to know why you still don’t make enough money? Every expert trader was once a beginner, but by practice and experience, they became at their game. Here are the most common mistakes and, of course, the best ways to solve them.

Rushing to make trades

Why be in a hurry to trade items which you have very little or no information? The market is not easy to anticipate, especially to newbies who rush out to touch the forbidden apple, so to say.

My best friend, Michael, started trading currency at the age of 19. Back then, everything seemed so attainable that he would often rush to make a deal as soon as he deemed the venture to be profitable.

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Launching a Crowdfunding Campaign? Choose Your Words Closely | Business News Daily

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It’s not what you say, but how you say it that could determine how successful your crowdfunding campaign is, new research finds.

A study from researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago revealed that linguistic style, which is how one speaks, is critically important in crowdfunding campaigns, especially for social entrepreneurs.

The study’s authors found that how a pitch is voiced and worded is much more important for social entrepreneurs than it is for their commercial counterparts.

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10 Signs You’re a Horrible Boss And How To Correct It | Getentrepreneurial.com

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The problem is not them; it’s YOU!

You’re done working with the most monstrous bosses of all times. You probably swore to yourself that when that time comes where you’re the one managing people, you will do things differently. That day has now come – you’re already a boss.

You may have good intentions like an all-expense paid team building for the top performing department or a company outing in its founding anniversary. But how can you implement all of those when there is a stack of emails, meetings, phone calls and a whole bunch of demanding clients and tough decisions that were supposed to be due last week?

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Why Small Business Owners Should Consider Getting an App | Duct Tape Marketing

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As a small business owner, asking “why should I create an app?” is a lot like asking “do I really need a website?” was a few years ago. Sure, it was (and still is) possible to do much of what you need using a Facebook page, but they’re just not built to do what a website can.

While a Facebook page can, for example, show opening times, it’s not so easy to offer a detailed breakdown of lunch, dinner and a la carte menus. In that respect, Facebook pages are to websites as mobile websites/responsive sites are to mobile apps; they get the job done, just about, but you generally can’t use them to do EVERYTHING that you’d like to.

This post will cover a few of the advantages of creating your own app as opposed to using a responsive site or, even worse, not doing anything with mobile at all.

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