He’s nearly closed a $25 million fund.

Joe Montana is aiming to score big as a venture capitalist.

The former San Francisco 49ers quarterback and NFL Hall of Famer is in the process of closing a new investment fund for his venture capital firm, Liquid 2 Ventures, according to a regulatory filing on Friday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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In a 21st century, aviation special of Pimp My Ride: Airplane owners could soon install glass bubbles on top of their planes.

SkyDeck, a 360 degree, tear-shaped bubble — in other words, the ultimate window seat — is ready for order.

SkyDeck was invented "to kill the boredom of long flights," CEO and inventor of SkyDeck Shakil Hussain told Mashable.

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A bunch of tiny sponges could change the way first responders treat gun victims and wounded soldiers.

Oregon-based startup RevMedx designed the XSTAT 30, a syringe-like device inject blood-absorbing sponges into a wound, sealing it in less than a minute, as reported by Popular Science. The FDA approved the device for civilian use in a press release on Dec. 7.

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The actress Mae West once said, "Too much of a good thing is wonderful!" Unfortunately, in reality, most of the decadent indulgences we pursue — including alcohol and rich foods — are not at all good for us, especially when taken in large quantities.

Now, a new study suggests that indulging in too much sleep and inactivity are also unhealthy. Researchers found that people who spend most of the day sitting and  sleeping too much may be as likely to die early as people who smoke or drink too much.

There may come a day when every child born in the U.S. is issued a smartphone as he or she leaves the hospital. Otherwise, how are they going to be able to cope?

Deloitte garnered some attention for its newly released 2015 Global Mobile Consumer Survey with this factoid: if you added up all the times all U.S. consumers look at their smartphones in a single day, you'd get a number around 8 billion.

Youth unemployment is one of today’s big global challenges. The World Bank estimates we need 600 million new jobs in the next 10 years just to keep global employment rates constant and according to the International Labor Organization, 73.3 million of the world’s unemployed are young people (about 36%). Add ‘under-employed’ youth to this and the number triples; over 169 million young people earn less than US$2 per day. The problem is even greater in rural communities where increasing migration to urban areas around the world means a higher concentration of rural poverty.

Older households need to save more money for retirement, and plan to possibly work longer, according to research just published.

But the same labor market pressures that have made it harder for people to save, such as increasingly unstable labor markets, have also made it more difficult for people to work longer as wage and salary employees, according to the authors of the paper, Christian Weller, a University of Massachusetts Boston professor; Jeffrey B. Wenger, University of Georgia professor; Benyamin Lichtenstein, a University of Massachusetts Boston professor; and Carolyn Arcand, a University of New Hampshire professor.

You don't have to be a nature lover to be "green." A new survey suggests that Americans' attitudes about protecting the environment aren't just linked to their love of the great outdoors.

Turns out, religion and politics might be strongly tied to how people perceive environmental issues, according to the survey of 1,500 Americans who answered questions about their interactions with the natural world, their religious and political beliefs and their stance on environmental issues, such as global warming.

One of my old bosses once told me, "It doesn't matter what your title is. Whatever the company needs, that's what you do. If they made me Director of Toilet Cleaning, we would have the cleanest toilets in the city, period."

I now carry this mentality with me through any endeavor I take part in.

A lot of people join the startup world because they get jazzed up about the boost in responsibility, increased versatility of tasks, elevated power and job title. Tech startups are "sexy," and many entrepreneurs let this go to their head.

Many people feel that they just aren’t smart enough to be an entrepreneur, yet there seems to be no convincing evidence that a high IQ is a prerequisite for this lifestyle. We all know of successful businesses started by first-time entrepreneurs who dropped out of school, and according to many sources, “street smarts” (experience) tends to trump “book smarts” (intelligence) every time.

INVESTMENT into research and development and nurturing start-up friendly ecosystem are key to innovative and creative economy, says Korean Ambassador to Slovakia, Sang hoon Park. This is an aim that Korea is looking to share with Slovakia as well as other countries of the Visegrad Group (V4).

In an interview with The Slovak Spectator, Ambassador Park describes the cooperation between his country and the V4 region, about Korean way to multiculturalism, and also about how Skalický trdelník made it to Seoul.

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With the money flowing freely in Silicon Valley, there's been little incentive for startups to face the public markets, says Bill Maris, CEO and president of Google Ventures.

Corporations are raising cash like a startup, absorbing mountains of money from venture capitalists rather than facing a fickle public market. As a result, tech IPOs in 2015 are markedly down from previous years.

The U.S. Department of Education’s College Scorecard is a web tool allowing users to access an array of information about the quality of colleges and universities throughout the country. It shows how much students earn 10 years after enrolling, which helps them evaluate institutions and decide how much debt to assume. Ranking Your College: Where You Go and What You Make ranks colleges and universities strictly on earnings, but then tests how sensitive the ranking of a university is when adjustments are made to earnings. The data attempts to help answer several questions: How important is student academic preparation? How much are average earnings skewed by major choice and by the selection of majors available at a particular university? What is the likelihood of graduate degree attainment?

Culture is one of those words that’s thrown around a lot but is rarely understood. It’s a bragging point of nearly every company in business today, from a startup with three employees to multinational corporations.

Yet, few companies seem to understand what they’re talking about. Culture isn’t just an attitude. It’s a set of behaviors. Culture is an intention of management, but it also has to be embraced by an entire organization.

Every year jobs and career site Glassdoor publishes the 10 best large companies to work for, as ranked by employees.

Typically, it's not hard to predict who will make the list. Benefit-happy tech companies like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter are safe bets. Case in point: Last year, Google nabbed the top spot.

When publicist Jennifer B.* was just starting out in her career, her job was so demanding that she tried to take a few shortcuts.

"I was pitching all the major beauty and fashion publications, and I cut and pasted the same pitch into about 50-plus emails," she recalls. "I ended up addressing two top editors with the wrong names, so it was clear I was ‘mass’ pitching. It made me look incompetent and lazy. Huge mistake."

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Over the past three decades at IDEO, I’ve worked with some of the most innovative companies in the world and seen a lot of creative leaders in action. I’ve paid attention to how the best of them operate — how they nurture creativity all around them — and I’ve noticed three things:

What does Ben & Jerry’s have to do with the Paris climate conference? No, the company isn’t providing free ice cream to attendees (at least not that we know of). The connection is actually much deeper and more meaningful. Ben & Jerry’s represents a crucial thread of progress that has global implications for business in a world responding to the increasing effects of climate change. To understand this, however, we need to go back a few years.

Many of us are familiar with the hazards of Groupthink - when teams or organizations operate on autopilot and feel a general false sense of invulnerability. They wind up maintaining course without appropriately considering emerging risks, debating alternative scenarios, or exploring new courses of action.

Groupthink happens because of basic social and interpersonal dynamics that include a wish for group harmony, pressures for conformity, increased commitment to ill-advised or outdated strategies, and punishment of dissenters.