By the time a cyberattack is discovered, the hackers responsible may have been inside a network for months. During that time, hackers lurk persistently and become increasingly undetectable within the network, where they uncover and later extract an organization’s most valuable information.

It’s estimated the average rugby player runs about seven or eight kilometres during an 80 minute match. No matter how quickly your team dips or how well they throw, if they’re unfit, it’s worth nothing. It’s the same in business. Prepare for your day, prepare for meetings, and plan how you’ll split the day to get everything done.

Think ahead

People underestimate the importance of mental preparation too. Identify objectives for every task, then analyse whether you’ve completed them or not. Be conscious of what’s ahead.

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In their book Bold, co-authors Peter Diamandis and Stephen Kotler, highlight the exponential technologies poised to disrupt many of the world’s established industries and companies. These technologies include: networks and sensors, artificial intelligence, 3D printing, robotics, genomes and synthetic biology and Blockchain, and are detailed below.

If you are considering or have even already started a business as a couple, take the opportunity to read “Let's Make Money, Honey”. Not only will it determine whether you are suited as a couple to run a business together, it also contains a wealth of practical information to use when running a service business. Furthermore, it really is a truly interesting and inspirational story of the couple’s time spent in business together.

The innovation process and the structures build into our organization certainly need to be changed. Innovation is not delivering, our innovation systems are breaking down.

Our current structures and processes for innovation are holding us back and will continue to not deliver the expected results needed today or the future, giving real growth and sustainability. We do need a far more radical approach to a solution for managing innovation inside our organizations.

YOU can increase the size of your muscles by pumping iron and improve your stamina with aerobic training. Can you get smarter by exercising — or altering — your brain?

This is hardly an idle question considering that cognitive decline is a nearly universal feature of aging. Starting at age 55, our hippocampus, a brain region critical to memory, shrinks 1 to 2 percent every year, to say nothing of the fact that one in nine people age 65 and older has Alzheimer’s disease. The number afflicted is expected to grow rapidly as the baby boom generation ages. Given these grim statistics, it’s no wonder that Americans are a captive market for anything, from supposed smart drugs and supplements to brain training, that promises to boost normal mental functioning or to stem its all-too-common decline.

The government of the Australian state of New South Wales is deploying drones, sonar and helicopters this summer in a bid to protect beachgoers from sharks.

At an event at Sydney's Coogee Beach on Sunday, Minister for Primary Industries Niall Blair formally announced a world-first A$16 million (US$12 million) shark strategy.

It’s no secret that the tech community has historically reacted with hesitation at the thought of collaborating with the public sector, what with the red tape, bureaucratic processes, lengthy sales cycles and a generally poor standard of implemented technology (remember Healthcare.gov before Marketplace Lite?). Clashes with Uber and Airbnb have created an image of our government as the hard-fisted guardian of the status quo. With this story so dominant in the tech scene, it’s no wonder that we in Silicon Valley have largely avoided working with the government.

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Every VC says they are looking for great founders that are solving real problems in big markets. So why is it that so many “good” companies that seemingly meet these requirements still fail to raise money from VCs?

Venture capital is a hits driven business, with ~4.5 percent of dollars invested generating ~60 percent of total returns. This is why the VC model is built on the expectation that most returns will come from companies that pay 10X+ on investment, and on the expectation that many investments will lose money.

Over the last ten years, the U.S. government has dealt serious damage to American innovation by altering how our patent system has worked for more than two hundred years and shifting it in favor of large corporations at the expense of small inventors. Today, inventors cannot reasonably defend patents and most patents are no longer capable of attracting capital to build the next generation of American innovation.

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Innovation is a mysteriously difficult thing to dictate. Technology seems to change by a sort of inexorable, evolutionary progress, which we probably cannot stop—or speed up much either. And it’s not much the product of science. Most technological breakthroughs come from technologists tinkering, not from researchers chasing hypotheses. Heretical as it may sound, “basic science” isn’t nearly as productive of new inventions as we tend to think.

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Many entrepreneurs forget that their success is more about helping other people than about personally becoming famous, or overcoming the odds and getting rich. A successful business has to satisfy customers with a strong team, by helping them solve problems, save money, or experience more pleasure. That means more focus on helping others achieve their goals.

In this video, Dana Mead, Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, talks about venture capital. He offers insight about Silicon Valley and life as a venture capitalist. Mead begins his discussion, talking about his work at Kleiner Perkins. He says that he has been in the business for about 39 years.

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Building a business is hard work.

Asking for money? That can be torture.

If you need proof, just tune in to ABC's "Shark Tank." Watch the parade of nervous entrepreneurs wither under the scrutiny of Mark Cuban or Mr. Wonderful. When they get shot down, you can feel their pain.

Those optimistic self-starters can show up with a dream and limp away shattered and broken. Their million-dollar ideas turn out to be worthless.

I am pleased to announce that an updated version of the University’s Intellectual Property and Commercialization Policy was approved by the Board of Trustees in early October and is now available online. This comes as the result of a substantive collaboration between the Office of the Vice President for Research, the Provost’s Office, the Office of the General Counsel and faculty and staff at both UConn-Storrs and UConn Health.

A banana a day may not keep the doctor away, but a substance originally found in bananas and carefully edited by scientists could someday fight off a wide range of viruses, new research suggests. And the process used to create the virus-fighting form may help scientists develop even more drugs, by harnessing the “sugar code” that our cells use to communicate. That code gets hijacked by viruses and other invaders.

We’ve been hearing a lot of buzz around how wearables will continue to enhance our everyday lives. From steps and calories, to sleep and diet, wearables are starting to show their influence on our personal lives. But what about the business opportunity and benefits to our professional lives?

If an entrepreneur can’t build a culture of excitement and commitment at a startup, the chances of long-term success are negligible. It simply doesn’t matter how great your solution is. Every investor knows this. That’s why they insist on spending a day with your team as part of the due diligence process. A winning culture is easy to see, and a culture of fear and desperation is hard to hide.

WESTLAKE — Jeff Suttle runs a preschool for professional adults.

They play on the floor with toys. Scribble on smartboards. Make models with 3D printers. Hold up flashcards to express themselves. Learn how to share and play nice. Get put in timeout when they don’t.

“We’re big believers in the science of adult learning,” says Suttle, Deloitte University’s client experience leader. “If you’re up and moving, you engage better and remember more.”

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