A set of default images take the role of “Loose Leaf tricks and tips”. This should work with designers, but not for someone with less practice in this area. The catch is to carefully go through every default image, because you might end up like me: I missed the one that would have taught me how to trash the sketch I didn’t need. I loved Loose Leaf’s minimalist design, which really gives users space to unleash their creativity....
With the entrepreneurial trend growing rapidly across the country, Pipeline opened its first location nearly two years ago and will open a 22,000-square-foot location in Philadelphia in December. The seasoned team of Todd Oretsky and Philippe Houdard has experienced huge success with the Pipeline theory, where new business ventures and connections have been born for local and international teams. Together, they have tapped into the idea that diversity in the community drives success....
The poll – posted from the billionaire SpaceX owner’s personal Twitter account – has attracted over 17.5 million respondents in less than 24 hours. The vote reflects widespread dissatisfaction with Musk’s decision-making since he became chief executive less than two months ago, in a short tenure that has been as controversial as it has been chaotic. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2022 A large majority – 57.5% of poll respondents – have expressed that they want Elon Musk to resign from his position, while 42....
What they did turn up, however, was that LastPass email addresses, password reminders, server per user stats, and authentication hashes were compromised. In other words, it’s not good. Now, the team at LastPass has continually reassured everybody that nothing horrible can come of this situation, but I don’t think that’s the important thing to focus on here. Rather, I think it’s about time we asked a question that some have been probing for a while now: why are we still using passwords?...
According to Eevee, working in the tech industry had worn it out to the point where it would come home from work feeling like it could no longer do anything with the rest of the day. Often, days involved either working on a solving a problem at work or thinking about how to solve those problems. Even simple things like cleaning junk off its desk seemed too much of a luxury – time that it could put to better use....
Chicago-based startup Peanut Butter, a benefits administration platform, helps employers attract, retain and engage Millennial talent with student loan assistance through resources that help students reduce their debt or increase the ROI of their benefit spend by contributing towards their loans. David Aronson, CEO and founder Peanut Butter, who previously worked in HR outsource and corporate innovation for a billion dollar division of Sears Holdings Corp., figured out that companies would like to put their benefit dollars to use but the administrative side was a complex and painful task....
Now, two years and a $215,000 Kickstarter campaign later, Frankovich and cofounder Adam Pettler have created a different option: Revolights. The $250 LED lights work for road bikes and hybrids (not mountain bikes), with the help of a few small parts that take about 45 minutes to install: The lights are designed to combine front and side illumination. According to Revolights, 70 percent of night collisions are caused by inadequate side lights....
Bentley University recently published their analysis on this very topic. What’s the meaning behind these rising qualifications and shifting job roles? Consolidation, mostly. Companies are looking to maximize employee effectiveness, leading to more specializations in one job rather stretching them across various jobs. So how can employees and job seekers begin to make themselves more attractive to companies embracing this change? The focus needs to shift to embracing hybrid roles, which encourage multiple strengths and understanding of various roles rather than specializing in just one skill....
There are a few things that make Word Hack more appealing. If you have played Hangman, for example, you already know that you have limited moves. Word Hack goes even further: Players race against the clock to fill the blank, colored spaces. Word Hack makes your “task” fun by helping you with its color choices: Players drag letters to their matching colors on the puzzle board and are rewarded for their speed and accuracy....
I wish this was the only time I’d heard this story, but it’s not. It happens all the time. In spite of an overwhelming number of books offering advice to entrepreneurs, there are surprisingly few about how to properly divide up the startup equity pie to avoid situations like my students’. The last time I counted, the number was zero. So I wrote one, called Slicing Pie, which as far as I know is the only book on the subject that exists....
The Drop The report, out from Bloomberg, details the responses that the Asia-Pacific region — India, China, and Japan, to be precise — has come up with as a result of the sudden rise in renewable energy development: Auctions. As a result, prices are down 26 percent and efficiency is up. It’s a natural response to a promising new technology, particularly given that the Asia-Pacific region has “attracted the most clean-energy investment since the beginning of 2012” according to new energy data....
Portia Blunt, Senior Digital Sport Innovation Manager at New Balance Athletic, will be speaking at TechCo’s annual Innovate Celebrate conference this October in San Francisco. As a head decision-maker at New Balance’s Digital Sport Division, she’s responsible for managing the digital performance strategy for embedded tech in new products. She also aids in developing partnerships within the sport performance technology industry, making her the expert to talk to for those hoping to learn more about the industry and understand its network....
This is an additional investment in Sweetgreen by Revolution Growth – in December of 2013, the venture fund made a $22 million investment in the Washington, D.C.-based company (with Case joining its board at the same time). Other investors in this round include Behance cofounder Scott Belsky, Stonyfield Farm founder Gary Hirshberg, restaurateur Daniel Bouloud, and Shake Shack founder Danny Meyer. According to According to Sweetgreen, this new funding will enable them to increase their expansion, particularly in its move to establish a presence on the West Coast....
That was nonsense. However, whether you’re an entrepreneur or an employee, you have used one, if not all, of these ridiculous, metaphor-laden sentences in your office. Guaranteed. Office jargon has become a staple of startup culture, as well as the business world as a whole. However, this common practice could be costing you some serious productivity points in the long run. That’s right, according to a recent study, office jargon has been shown to impede productivity....
A new study from Pew Research Center finds that the value of traditional ways of acquiring news is on the decline, being replaced instead for social media involvement in current events. The study, dubbed News Use Across Social Media Platforms 2016, surveyed 4,600 people in order to find out how they consumed news media. It turns out that 62 percent of those surveyed insisted that they used social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, SnapChat, Instagram and YouTube to find out what was going on in the world....
Study Says Small Businesses Are Profiting From Pokemon Craze According to research conducted by Revel Systems, businesses located near PokeStops – predetermined real-world locations where players gather to claim free items – have seen a notable uptick in business over the course of the summer. The study looked at businesses in three key metro areas – San Francisco, Chicago, and New York City – and examined a variety of data including revenue numbers and foot traffic....
Currently, Blackboard owns about 60 percent of the market share, but they remain technologically unevolved. The problem, according to the team at StudyCloud, is that Blackboard ends up being used as a glorified and expensive flash drive used only to store files. StudyCloud is aiming to challenge the conventions of online education tools with a shift toward a more productive and communal learning environment. Pilla took some time out of his busy startup day to give us a few insights into the world they have created for students....
Most of the founders and executives on that email list run companies that have raised tens to hundreds of millions of venture dollars and employ several hundreds, even thousands, of smart, driven people. But within minutes of that email going out, dozens of responses poured in, all echoing the same sentiment: “Wait, me too.” Many also expressed their relief to discover they weren’t alone. As a startup founder, it’s so easy to think that you’re the only one confronting these challenges....
The news was sent to employees in an email last week, and does make some concessions for staff who have not been vaccinated on medical or religious grounds. It follows on from reports from companies such as Google, who we reported were drafting a similar policy last month. The new policy applies to T-Mobile staff who need to attend the office, whether on a regular basis, or occasionally, meaning that unless a worker is 100% remote, they will likely be affected....
Enter RecruitingHop, a startup that’s hoping to fix messy recruiting practices among companies. The website enables any business to take its hiring process mobile, providing the opportunity to create a mobile-optimized job site to empower candidates to apply via their smartphones or other device. Based in San Francisco, RecruitingHop allows companies to develop an end-to-end mobile recruiting strategy in weeks. Companies can brand their mobile sites, collect applications, and view candidate behavior analytics....
