Only 50 percent of students who enroll in college complete their degree, he says. But 90 percent of students who drop out are in good academic standing. But Meyer thinks colleges can do a great deal to improve those numbers – starting with bringing their $7 billion-per-year recruiting processes into the 21st century. For students, Campuscene is a website and iOS app where you can take virtual tours of colleges....
Recent studies (and basic common sense) have found that scrolling and tinkering with your smartphone in the bathroom can lead to some pretty gross results. If you thought the oil marks on your screen were a problem, just wait until you hear what germ expert Jason Tetro has to say about it. And with the increased use of smartphones in everyday life, the problem is only getting worse. With more than 6....
Next up was Cathy Brooks, storyteller extraordinaire and founder of Other Than That and Story Navigation. She announced that she’ll be moving to Las Vegas to open a dog day care park and boarding facility next year. To get there – a big departure from her past in the tech world – she spent a summer saying yes to every conversation, exploring possibilities. “I allowed myself to sit in uncertainty,” she says....
In the past year, the tech world has been privileged to a number of revolutionary innovations that have made the world a more interesting place. From augmented reality games and digital home assistants to self-driving cars and virtual reality headsets, 2016 has been a year filled with enough gadgets and gear to make any tech junky excited. If you want to get a good idea of what is coming next, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), producers of CES, are here to guide you through the trends....
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Today’s agenda aims to help participants find their fellow co-founders in addition to selecting a business idea. Day two will include the feedback of a group of prominent mentors, including Zaarly founder, Eric Koester, and Brazen Careerist CEO, Edward Barrientos, to help the teams further refine their ideas – which will then be pitched in front of a group of investors and media at Demo Day, this Friday, July 20th (the event is free – register here)....
There must be a better way to provide a safer society for women and the ability for them to get emergency help. Fortunately, some entrepreneurs are doing what they can to change it. The Challenge Almost four billion people across the globe don’t have access to a centralized emergency response system. Within the US, we have 9-1-1, where individuals can call to report a crime. However, many times that’s too late....
The sharing economy refers to goods or services that are rented or borrowed among people, rather than used by solely one person. Users can share apartments, cars, and music, or even online staff and money (crowdfunding). PwC estimated that the sharing economy will be worth $335 billion in 2025, catching up with the traditional rental industry. Series D is typically the fifth round of funding that a startup raises, after seed and Series A-C....
The good news for entrepreneurs is that the growing role of educational technology presents yet another opportunity to develop and sell something that could have a large sales base. And, as an added bonus, it is also possible to use this tech to help students learn more easily and reach their true potential. Research Backs It Up Of course, one of the best examples is the usage of tablets in the classroom....
Go back 15 years, when Intel was on the Pentium II, and you’ll see the same scenario playing out. Back then, the industrial design of the PC wasn’t much of a differentiator; the focus was on processor speed. But once the processor got up to the whopping speed of 300 Mhz (that means Megahertz for the young people out there), and processor upgrades went up 33-100 per release, there wasn’t much of a reason for people to upgrade, since the basic PC tasks worked fine on a 300 Mhz machine....
Endeavor’s research found that while a good majority of tech startup founders were indeed in their twenties, the age of the average tech entrepreneur was 31 years old. Their study also found that 25 percent of founders were older than 35 years old. Taking it a step further, they combined these findings with last year’s research from Harvard Business Review which looked at the ages of the most successful tech entrepreneurs, and found that there was no relationship between the age of a tech entrepreneur and his/her company’s success....
City Strengths Whether you look at the local venture capitalist portfolios, the salaries of experienced professionals, or measure job openings, there are a lot of ways to identify where the core talents of a city lie. According to Mickiewicz, on the west coast you’ll find more experienced coders (and a bit of everything else), in New York City those strongest with e-commerce and media, mobile developers in Chicago, and in Washington DC policy pros and NGOs....
Professor Moshe Vardi of Rice University estimates that 50 percent of human jobs may be obsolete in 30 years, as artificial intelligences and robots take over. So far, robots have replaced us in warehouse worker and truck driver roles, but experts say office jobs are far from safe. Once humans are automated out of these occupations, the fate of the office is uncertain. Offices in the Short-Term Future Even before we feel the effects of AI employment, offices are already changing....
The Contribution of the Internet of Things to the Healthcare Industry The biggest revolution that will be occurring in healthcare is the ability to access, retrieve, monitor, and store patient data. This has nothing to do with medical records per se. It has everything to do with connected devices that will provide health care providers with real time information. Suppose, for example, Bill has high blood pressure, and his doctor wants to monitor that pressure over several weeks in order to determine if a medication is working....
Phoenix, AZ-based neurosurgeon Dr. Randall Porter personally faced the frustrations that many family members of patients do. His father was sick and Dr. Porter could not be there for all of his medical appointments. He was left to depend on his father’s memory and often had to call the doctor himself to get all of the information. Like many others, he wished there was a recording available of his father’s doctors appointments so he could see for himself what had taken place rather than relying on the memories of others....
Very green ideas would go through a guided, helpful refining process: the Idea Accelerator. Each week The mill would fund one idea with $5,000 and two months of office space and access to mentors and classes; in total there were 44 investments made in 2014. It was a smashing success, and some of The Mill’s graduates have even gone on to do great things. However, Sara Hill – cofounder and CEO of The Mill – had the desire to expand it into a full blown accelerator, and that meant getting The Mill its own space....
GE has announced the next Instagrapher is Adam Senatori, whose winning photo was selected by a group of panelists (which included Tech Cocktail’s own Frank Gruber). Senatori is a Madison, Wisconsin-based still photographer, cinematographer, raconteur and 6000 hour pilot. Adam will be flown to the UK to shoot the GE Aviation Facility, bringing his own style and Instagram flare. Adam’s winning photo, which captured the “Powering” theme, is shown below....
If you haven’t kept up on what can only be described as the year of the hack, we’ve taken it upon ourselves to go through the top ten hacks of 2016. Check out the list below to find out whether or not you have to change your password: World Anti-Doping Agency With the Olympics in full swing just a few months ago, the global competition wasn’t limited to Rio de Janeiro....
Glassdoor reports that: “the unadjusted pay gap between men and women is 24.1 percent, meaning women earn, on average, 76 cents ($0.76) for every $1.00 men earn. However, when controls are factored in (controls such as age, experience, level of education, occupation, industry, location, year, company and job title), the adjusted pay gap between men and women is 5.4 percent, meaning women earn, on average, $0.95 for every $1.00 men earn....
