NuggMD is a California-based leading telemedicine portal that connects qualified medical marijuana patients with licensed physicians online. They’ve assisted more than 40,000 California patients in obtaining an online medical marijuana consultation with a licensed physician, and they’ve set their sights on the challenges of the New York market. With their launch in New York, the company is excited to enable participating New York physicians to provide convenient and efficient care to patients statewide....

Due to the coronavirus outbreak, OnePlus unveiled the two new devices at a digital event this morning. After months of rumors and weeks of speculation on supply chain disruptions, the company was happy to reveal the follow-up to the popular OnePlus 7 series. OnePlus 8 and OnePlus 8 Pro Announced Both smartphones were announced during an event today, and the excitement over the updated devices is undeniable. Take a look at the specs below and find out if these smartphones are just too expensive for the OnePlus brand....

According to the most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics data, 77 percent of part-time workers in the U.S. are currently working fewer hours for non-economic reasons. That is 20.5 million people that are opting for more free time and less money. What is most shocking about the data is that professional jobs are considerably more prevalent than in the past. And there’s a reason. The reason for the increase in part time professional jobs is more than obvious....

A report by Beyond Identity, a cybersecurity company focusing on login credentials like email accounts and passwords, has shown that people have little to no patience when it comes to resetting or thinking of new passwords. This is a problem for a multitude of reasons – businesses are losing out on sales after people give up their carts once their logins don’t work, their email marketing lists are getting clogged up with multiple email accounts belonging to the same people, and the whole process is becoming overall less efficient....

This announcement gives us a peek at Disruption Corporation’s bigger vision, which is to create a data platform similar to public market research, but for the private markets. That data platform will inform the investments they make through the Crystal Tech Fund, a $50 million fund for post-seed startups. But it goes far beyond that. They’ve already launched the Disruption Daily, a $99/month service where you get a report delivered to your inbox every day....

Before you gladly sign-off the deal and get dreamy about the millionaire retirement, you should make a realistic assessment of your options by asking the following questions. How many shares will I be granted and under what terms? Venture Hacks have created a good breakdown of what employees may expect in terms of equity. As a lead engineer you can be offered somewhere between 0.5%-1% of companies shares. Considering that you don’t participate in further investment rounds, you can expect to walk away with $500....

However, while internet users are finally thinking about protecting their personal information, most people still fall at the first hurdle: actually reading the terms of service before creating an online account. Doing so can be one of the most basic preventative measures for protecting your data, and let’s be honest, no one does it. Unfortunately, these unimaginably long blocks of text can feel as if they’re designed to sneak unreasonable terms past you, no matter how diligent a reader you are....

Tackling “local” is harder when anyone can now log online and search for the services they want, rather than thumbing through a huge book. But that’s exactly what Repair.com is doing, focused on connecting customers with local appliance repairmen. In early June, it managed to launch in 50 cities, all at once. Repair.com is led by Chris Spanos, the former general manager of AOL Local (which includes its own yellow pages and city guide)....

The report, conducted by premium domain marketplace Sedo, looks at the sales of .CO domains since July 2010. Total sales Over 1.5 million .CO domains have been registered in over 200 countries – with over 53 percent in the United States. $2.6 million worth of those sales took place on Sedo, making .CO Sedo’s 10th most traded top-level domain (TLD). Sale prices On Sedo, the average sale price of a ....

While we still don’t know whether the jobs created by automation will fully account for the jobs removed by automation or how the rise of remote freelancers will affect the global economy, we can at least predict one thing: Entrepreneurs will continue adding jobs to economies worldwide for years to come. The Report According to the 2016 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) survey — the largest single study of entrepreneurs in the world — fifty-five percent of all entrepreneurs across the globe are expected to create at least one job within the next five years....

Then there are the left field items that have left us scratching our heads, such as smart plant pots and rocket boots, to name some examples from the past. Naturally, the 2019 CES is no exception, and it has delivered a veritable bounty of weird and wonderful gadgets that will raise eyebrows. These include robot pals, cat toilets and a smart door designed to beat parcel thieves. We take a closer look at some of the more unusual gadgets that have caught our eye this year....

In this article, I’m going to talk about one of the most essential elements of a Minimum Sustainable Company, the runway. Simply defined, runway is the time and money you have to keep the show running without the business generating income. Runway is your lifeline. Your business cannot exist without runway. Hence, runway should guide a lot of your decisions for what you build out as your MVP. Below is how runways map to each orbit of the MSC spiral....

SmartThings is a smart home platform that allows users to control several home functions simply from their mobile phones, including lighting, locks, electronics, appliances, and others connected through the company’s devices. The company’s focus on the interconnection between devices makes it one of the leaders in the Internet of Things (IoT) movement, which aims to link everything in the physical world to the web. Samsung’s acquisition of the DC tech startup follows similar moves by Apple and Google....

While no statements from either side have been made about the financial value of the acquisition, Re/code has reported that the acquisition will possibly be a little more than $20 million – sizable, considering that Science itself has raised only $40 million in financing. This is the company’s fourth acquisition to date, with two other acquisitions earlier this year: social bookmarking site, delicious, back in May, as well the mobile app development company, IconApps Inc....

He takes comfort in the fact that Brigade’s wide-eyed goal “is a little bit more achievable than it may seem at first blush, because turnout is so low, the average American is so disengaged, that even a few marginal changes — a few percentage points one way or the other — has a huge impact.” Parker, and the driving force of Brigade, CEO Matt Mahan, think they can inject interest into America’s otherwise lukewarm polis by creating the next great social network around citizens’ civic life....

A new website is offering a distinct way for employers to scope out top-notch talent. ShinyNeedle allows them to post job descriptions with a twist – each one includes a real business challenge to solve. This allows recruiters to see how potential candidates would deal with a real problem facing their business, similar to HireArt. The site is beneficial for job applicants, too. Tackling the challenge can allow candidates to set themselves apart from others who may have applied with only a bland resume and cover letter....

Available on iOS and in beta on Android (with a new version released this week), Sonar pulls in data from social networks to help you meet people nearby based on mutual friends and interests. The New York-based startup is an early entrant in the growing space of location-based social discovery apps, including others like Highlight and Banjo. Cofounder and CEO Brett Martin has experience at a seed-stage mobile incubator called K2 Media Labs (an investor in Sonar) and as a Fulbright scholar researching resource allocation at early-stage startups in Milan (I’m a bit jealous of that one)....

SpotCam is an emerging home monitoring solution brand that is getting more and more attention for two reasons: first, it has free cloud recording – it records your video fully and continuously so you can playback full footage instead of snippets of event videos. SpotCam does provide an optional plan for longer storage but, at least for the majority of home users, 24 hours of cloud video retention should be quite enough....

With the help of customer development expert Steve Blank, LaunchPad Central, and Udacity, NEXT is targeting startups who have gone through Startup Weekend and want to pursue their ideas further. “We’re constantly asked ‘what’s next’ by our participating entrepreneurs,” says Startup Weekend cofounder and CEO Marc Nager. The program is based on Blank’s Lean LaunchPad course at Stanford University. Startups start with a business model canvas, then go out and talk to customers to improve their product and marketing....

Forbes offers a rundown of Abraham’s history and how the tech works: Peter Thiel, known for his thin-skinned anti-Gawker campaigning, led the startup’s recent $30M series B round of funding. Given wifi’s increasing dominance throughout the world, the Zenreach approach to measuring customers appears fairly foolproof. Of course, the increasing measurement of data on individuals’ movements will worry anyone concerned about a stifling lack of privacy in the digital age....