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1. Come up with visual solutions for communication problems. As a designer, you will need to understand your design users’ needs and wants to be able to come up with the best visual solutions and communicate the right ideas or concepts. Understanding your users is key for good design and user research can help you with that. 2. Put together proposals for meeting with clients. Good designers need to empathize with their employees or clients and understand their role within each business model....

Here are the eight best apps for 2016 that will help you make investments with ease. Betterment Betterment is an app that uses screenshots to give you reports on account balances and overall performance. Just create your online profile by answering simple questions like your age and investment goal (e.g. “build wealth” or “safety net”), and then let the app invest the money for you in a diversified investment portfolio....

But in the process of pulling together those articles on the biggest cities, we uncovered some hidden gems and businesses within the ecosystem. Here, for the first time, I’ve collected a round-up of the most interesting incubators and accelerators from areas of the country you’re less likely to have heard about in tech circles. The Land O’Lakes Dairy Accelerator Minnesota food and agriculture brand Land O’Lakes — yes, the one you know from butter packages — launched an accelerator in July 2017....

Jack Ma – Alibaba While Alibaba technically can’t really be called a startup anymore, writing a list like this without mentioning the great Jack Ma is impossible. The story of Jack Ma coming from nowhere to becoming the richest man in China is one of our times best rags-to-richest story. Not touching a computer until at the age of 33, his achievement is truly remarkable. The fact that he’s also charismatic and funny further places him as the most exiting startup leader in Asia....

The event packs in more than 70,000 participants, vendors, and artists and has 24 tracks, including Tech Industry, Intelligent Future, and Development and Code. And if you want to know how to succeed and survive at this incredibly popular event, you’ll need to learn from the experts. Three entrepreneurs from Albuquerque all made it through SXSW last year. Charles Ashley III, CEO of Cultivating Coders, Michelle Urban, CEO of Pressure Analysis Company, and Antonio Gandara-Martinez, Marketing Advisor for bouncechat and marketing director for boomtime, all took the time to share their top tips on making SXSW a successful event....

We asked nine entrepreneurs what they thought the most important thing to mull over was when considering a cost of living increase. Check out the answers below and make sure your employees, or your employers, are happy: Money Is a Powerful Incentive Of course, I want my team to have more perks than just a good paycheck. I strive to hire people who love their work and value enjoying what they do more than money, since passion has a longer shelf-life in job satisfaction....

So, your company wants to increase revenue. They want more conversions, more clicks, more shares, and more users. What do they tell you to do first? Well, A/B test! Compare two versions of a page, define a key goal (ex. clicks), and see if you get more clicks. But, does this actually work? Is it really the approach you should take? Let’s look at the data. For apps with millions of users, small cosmetic changes to your app, like color, layout, and language could net you some noticeable increases in your key metrics, like more clicks and user engagement....

It isn’t the first bonus that employees have received due to the pandemic – staff received an additional $500 earlier in the year after an internal survey found wellbeing was low among Google workers. The news comes as Google announced that it is pushing back its return to office date, due to the rise of the omicron variant, continuing to rely on a remote workforce. Pay Bonus for Google Staff Speaking to Reuters, a company spokesperson for Google stated that all of its global staff, including its extended workforce and interns, will be awarded a bonus of $1,600 (or equivalent value in their territory)....

“The share of Americans who read books on tablets or cellphones has increased substantially since 2011,” Pew explains, “while the share using dedicated e-readers has remained stable.” Notably, the e-readers are not dropping away. They picked their medium of choice way back in 2011 and are staying strong. However, like a tree growing around a bike, the steadily increasing number of cellphone-reading Americans has passed the e-reader crowd by....

Scott Resnick, Entrepreneur-in-Residence at StartingBlock, and Sara Woldt, Director of Business Development at gener8tor are making moves in the tech scene to bring more startups and businesses to the cheesehead state. This time for the #StartupsEverywhere, series, they talk with me about running an accelerator, the new entrepreneurial hub with a 50,000 square-foot building and local startups. Scott Resnick: Ten years ago, I cofounded Hardin Design & Development, an enterprise web application shop, in Madison....

The poorly executed web mapping service from Apple originally launched in 2012 to horrid reviews. The absence of transit route options, the incorrect addresses, and the onslaught of other significant flaws made it pretty much impossible to use, no matter how deeply rooted your brand loyalty was. Now, a mere eight years later, Apple is taking another shot at it, launching a huge overhaul of Maps that is aimed at somehow elbowing its way into the fairly cemented web mapping market....

Individual apps are not permanent fixtures of the App Store. Apps are removed constantly, whether it’s at the behest of the developer, or due to an app becoming incompatible with a new operating system. As apps are becoming easier to make, app stores are needing to be more heavily policed in order to avoid dangerous or exploitative apps that target children or harvest data for shady purposes. Apple and Google have cracked down in 2021 to avoid being responsible for any such apps....

The United States trails other developed countries when it comes to participation in political elections. In the 2012 presidential election, U.S. turnout was 53.6 percent. And that participation rate falls even lower when it comes to federal Congressional elections – with just 40 percent of the voting-age population actually exercising that civil right. According to the President, we need to redesign our systems to that we improve those participation rates, and we need to be able to create a safe and secure system that will eventually enable people to vote online....

As an entrepreneur, you do have control over your entire company. You have the freedom to take a 3-day weekend. You have the flexibility to start work at 9:30 AM instead of 9 AM. But what TV shows, movies, and books don’t tell you is that being an entrepreneur doesn’t make you your own boss. It just makes you an employee of a bevy of other business factors rather than a boss on a power-trip....

Frankly, you don’t want to miss this World Cup Final – it could throw up one of the biggest shocks in soccer history with favourites France, taking on Croatia in Moscow on Sunday. France were hotly-tipped to take the trophy home at the start of the tournament with a star-studded team including Paris St. Germain’s wunderkind, Kylian Mbappé. However, Croatia captain and Real Madrid playmaker Luka Modric will be hoping to inspire the Balkan nation to an unprecedented World Cup victory....

According to Lampkin, their data and analysis points to the biggest stakeholders for improving diversity within an organization comes down to those in middle management positions. As primary people managers, middle management typically brings in new team members, which is why Blendoor feels they have the greatest impact on who enters and exits a company. Both for internal and external transparency, it’s the team’s hope that by putting diversity and inclusion at the forefront with the BBI rating system that it will encourage organizations to form relevant goals and incentivize hiring managers to adopt equitable hiring, promotion, compensation, and communication practices....

This type of marketing can happen in several ways: The influencer can write a post or article about the product/service/company;The influencer can share info about the product/service/company on social media;The influencer can allow for the product/service/company to be “hosted” on his/her website;The influencer can follow, like or +1 the product/service/company, which does not have the same impact of the possibilities above, but can still be interesting;A mix of (and even all) the items above....

The social credit system was devised by China’s ruling party back in 2013, after it created a blacklist of “indebted citizens”. Since then, the project has snowballed. It now brings together normally separate pieces of information on citizens to generate one overall score. Based on records as seemingly innocuous as failing to pay fines, or walking a dog without a leash, last year, 17.5 million Chinese citizens were blocked from buying plane tickets, with a further 5....

Tech Cocktail: What is CNC Strategy Cloud Solutions? Rob Sayre: “CNC Strategy Cloud Solutions (@cncstrategy) is an integrated cloud solution that provides innovative real-time strategy alignment and execution. We focus on developing strategy in the cloud using our real-time proprietary and service solutions, developing an evolving process that shows you your business performance (i.e., garnering people, processes, and financial results), and developing adaptive solutions that provide immediate results.” Tech Cocktail: Who does CNC Strategy Cloud Solutions target?...

Startups and Corporations Can Get Along Given the split numbers of corporate employees, startup CMOs, and venture capitalists, the discussion provided an interesting dichotomy of the corporate-startup partnership world. Whether it was giving advice on what startups need to do to lock down a corporate partnership or discussing the red flags for corporations partnering with under qualified startups, the speakers were adamant about one thing: startups and corporations aren’t that different....