? Wow. I think this is one of the coolest things I've ever seen: it's a little green plug/stir stick that fits neatly into the lid of the Venti dark roast I'm enjoying. I think I vaguely recall having seen one before, but I don't know for certain. This I do know: a seemingly mundane ...

pubblicato il: 17/03/2012 - 01:53

Well-meaning laws like Sarbanes-Oxley have widened the opportunities for hedge funds to buy stock in advance of IPOs.

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 23:25

The Market for Lemons is one of the great economics papers of the past few decades. So good that it gained George Akerlof, its writer, a share of the Nobel Prize. The essential point is about information asymmetry. The seller of a used car knows much more about the quality of that car than does ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 12:52

Guest post written by Brian Gentile Brian Gentile is CEO of Jaspersoft, a San Francisco-based business intelligence software company. Innovation is the birth of an idea in the right environment. While Silicon Valley has an endless stream of ideas, we have the responsibility to ensure the environment remains healthy as well. A startup CEO is ...

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 21:57

When I saw actor Mike Daisey perform his monologue, "The Agony and the Ecstasy of ," at the Public Theater on February 11, I had already read the Times's dramatic, carefully written January 25 expose on the harsh conditions at the Chinese factories that assemble iPhones and iPads and products for hundreds of other electronics ...

pubblicato il: 19/03/2012 - 21:54

? Joining The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter and Twilight is the newest jackpot movie series, The Hunger Games.??The Hunger?? chronicles the life of??Katniss Everdeen, a 17 year-old who lives in District 12, a run-down neglected district belonging to the country of??Panem. After she is selected twice to be in the games and survives, ...

pubblicato il: 24/03/2012 - 01:11

LinkedIn has rules about attempting to connect with people you don't know. But those rules were meant to be broken.

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 17:55

I often feel awkward when I go to a conference. Reluctant to sidle up to a stranger and introduce myself, I roam, like I did at college parties, self-conscious, seltzer water in hand, not fitting in. In the midst of a sea of people chatting away enthusiastically, I am uncomfortable and alone. But when my ...

pubblicato il: 26/03/2012 - 23:27

Educator and entrepreneur Nate Cooper lends his advice on how to best position yourself for attracting a technical co-founder.

pubblicato il: 26/03/2012 - 08:25

Why has creativity become more important now? Actually we've been obsessed with creativity for over two hundred years, the difference is now it matters to each of us.

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 15:57