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Are Globalism And Technology Threatening Our Way Of Life?

These fears are very dangerous and also completely not true. Thanks to innovation, the world has grown many-fold in the last decades. We are opening up whole new markets and products to serve them. If we want to grow as a nation and to live in peace, we have to empower the world to get better. That will create opportunities for jobs and new products, and will keep our world healthy and secure. It's the only way.


Why Is Abby Walker Keeping Vivian Lou As A One Person Company?

At some point when you grow a business you start chipping away at your profits in order to support your team, and then you have to work extra hard to reach the next milestone. Business owners are also constantly complaining about their human resource problems. If you have no employees, and you are not trying to grow at all costs, you have no problems!

Abby is enjoying working from home, making more than she used to at her corporate job.
Vivian Lou works for her lifestyle and that is all that matters.


Would You Pay $250 For A Trashcan, Or Even $80 For A Soap Dispenser?

Frank Yang, the CEO of Simple Human, thinks you might. He believes that it's possible to take everyday objects, and make them a lot better.


How Does Alatraktchi Detect How Bacteria Communities In The Body?

She takes a blood or spit sample from a patient, electrons are shot into the sample, the electrons will interact with any communication molecules present, and this interaction gives information on the identity of the bacteria, the type of communication, and how much of bacteria are talking.


How Do You Get The Best Deals In Venture Capital?

According to Josh Wolfe, the best way to get returns in venture is to have people agree with you, but later, meaning you'd want to seek out undiscovered teams, and convince them to take your money, while no one else is looking at them.


Do Thoughts And Prayers Cure Cancer?

It might help people who believe it works, but there are also a lot of tangible things you could do to actually help a cancer patient.


Why Is Earnin Able To Provide Flexible Play At No Cost When Others Charge Outrageous Fees?

Earnin is using the smart phone to analyze whether their users are actually working or not, and therefore able to trust their users to pay the money back. Traditional loan businesses have no visibility like that and therefore have to charge very high fees to pad their loses.


How Do You Share The Burden Of Startup Founding With Your Team?

Eric Ries exposes his team to the entire startup roller-coaster, successes or failures, to clearly explain that his team is all they've got. There is no one to come to the rescue, and their future is entirely in their own hands.

Not only does it help him emotionally, but it gives the team insight into their own journey, and creates much smoother pivots, when those inevitably happen. Instead of wondering why, the team can look back at their journey and see how their own decisions have led to the outcomes.


What Is Your Best Career Advice?

Know what you want, and put yourself in the best position to get there. Be careful though, as the thing in front of you might not be the optimal path to where you eventually want to be.


How Can Consulting Experience Help With Startups?

Consulting could be an incredible place to start a career, being exposed to higher level problems than a new grad would be working on in a large corporation.

Consulting could be a spring-board of opportunity, but each person has to find their own way to leverage their experience to leap into the next phase.

Whatever you do, keep your mind open and think about the work you are exposed to beyond the task at hand.


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