Every new business or product owner wants to attract the broadest possible audience, so they are prone to adding more features, multiple sales channels, and appealing to every demographic. Unfortunately, often the result is potential customers who are confused, the limited resources of your business are spread too thin, and customers and investors look elsewhere for a better fit.

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John F. Kennedy, known for his charm and public speaking, is the youngest man -- at 43 years old -- and the first Roman Catholic ever elected to the office of the president. His life was cut short only three years later when he was assassinated in Dallas in 1963. Today, Americans remember him fondly as an inspirational figure who's among the most beloved presidents in history.

Like most people, Kevin Hall used to think the reason people get fat is simple. "Why don't they just eat less and exercise more?" he remembers thinking. Trained as a physicist, the calories-in-vs.-calories-burned equation for weight loss always made sense to him. But then his own research--and the contestants on a smash reality-TV show--proved him wrong.

Between now and 2024, the healthcare field is projected to experience the fastest employment growth, which is creating opportunities for people who are passionate about healthcare and considering a career in the industry.   

“The healthcare field is broad and dynamic,” said Doris Savron, executive dean at University of Phoenix College of Health Professions. “A career path in healthcare can range from IT to nursing to administrative staff, and each path is unique in what level of degree, time commitment and licensing are required.”   

Michigan enacted an intrastate investment crowdfunding exemption back in 2013 with broad bipartisan support. But legislators are looking to expand the reach of the current rule by updating the law.

According to the Michigan House Republicans, State Representative Bronna Kahle’s new legislation (HB 4305) will broaden the reach to allow Michigan residents the opportunity to invest in small businesses primarily doing business in the state – not just Michigan based businesses.

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Based on my years of experience as a new business advisor, I always find leadership to be more important to business success than any new technology or innovative solution. The challenge is to adequately define leadership in terms of everyday activities. Most entrepreneurs believe they are leaders, even though the feedback I get from their team and partners may indicate otherwise.

Back in the day, (not too long ago - shout out to the class of 2011!) I was a new college graduate crossing the stage with a guaranteed job.

Months before, I’d secured a position at a top media company in New York City. I should have been ecstatic. But I wasn’t. I was grateful, and recognized how rare it was to graduate with a job but I felt like I let myself down. I felt like I’d already let the real world chip away at my dreams by settling and entering the workforce.

With the growth of technology and new ways of working, innovation is playing a huge role in the workplace. The most successful organizations are those that can prep for the future and push the envelope creatively to find the next innovative idea. But what if how we have been thinking about innovation is all wrong? Open innovation is a newer idea that is spreading across industries and changing how companies work together and plan for the future.

Innovation is the new industry buzzword. It has been used widely in various scenarios and organisational set-ups in the past decade or more.

This has become an important parameter of success since many companies have started factoring it into their Balanced Scorecards to assess it. For a startup it is usually a benchmark of external growth and internal empowerment. They use it to define the direction of their business and if their internal work culture is empowering enough for employees to innovate or think of growth ideas. So for most startups, scaling up to the next phase of growth is clearly linked to Innovation in practices, ideas, products, technology and people!

The University of Michigan has a long-standing record of being home to some of the leading innovators, entrepreneurs, and world-changers. Since 1817, when the University of Michigan first began with the College of Literature, Science, & Arts, students and faculty within this institution were itching with a need to impact the world and improve upon what they already had. With this mindset, the past 200 years have been packed with some of the most innovative thinkers and entrepreneurial problem-solvers the world has seen.

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NEW DELHI, MAY 28:   Indian tax laws are perceived to be second most complex in the Asia-Pacific region, becoming even less predictable over the last three years, a Deloitte survey has said.

India ranks only after China in having most complex jurisdiction for taxation and most complicated requirements of tax, the Asia Pacific Tax Complexity Survey conducted by Deloitte said.

Japan, Australia, Indonesia and South Korea trail India in the complexity index.

“In these two jurisdictions (China and India), well over half of the respondents believe complexity in the regime has increased in the last 3 years,” it said.

If you want to land job interviews, your entire resume needs to be great, but only one part of it has to be really great. Think of it this way: recruiters and hiring managers are most likely to encounter your resume as an email attachment or a PDF you submit through a company’s online submission form, right? When they open the file, only the top half—at most—is going to fill their screen. That’s the part you need to lavish the most attention on. If you don’t give them a reason to scroll down and read more, it’s all over for you.

A new study has shown that university researchers have been crucial in 40 per cent of the most significant inventions since the 1950s. The study also revealed that universities contributed to around 75 per cent of the world’s important inventions.

The results of the study, conducted by Steven Brint, professor of sociology and public policy at the University of California, Riverside, have come as a surprise, given the relatively low share of research and development funding awarded to universities.

The firm's managing partner, Jenae Pitts, will work out of the 43North incubator as OneTen Capital seeks to make significant investments in local engineering or manufacturing startups.

As population growth increases the need to ramp up food production, tech startups are creating a range of agricultural software, services, farming techniques, and more aimed at bringing more data and efficiency to the sector.

We used CB Insights data to identify more than 100 private companies in agriculture tech and categorized them into nine main categories. We define ag tech as technology that increases the efficiency of farms, in the form of software, sensors, aerial-based data, internet-based distribution channels (marketplaces), and tools for technology-enabled farming.

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Often entrepreneurs entering the startup arena are exposed to a completely new business vernacular. Unless these brave souls peddling their new ideas have a background in finance, they find themselves lost in conversations with people throwing around terms like angel investor, crowdfunding, seed funding, VC (venture capital) -- and the list continues to grow daily. Another misconception from early entrepreneurs is the use of accelerator and incubator interchangeably as synonyms, which is understandable but incorrect.

After months of preparing, refining their applications, perfecting pitches, and waiting to hear back on their acceptance, 128 finalist startups are ready to enter the 2017 MassChallenge Boston Accelerator program. These startups, representing just 8% of over 1,500 companies that applied, represent the highest-potential ideas in the world.

All I do is work. I merely exist. I don’t get out much because traffic is terrible and parking is terrible. I don’t like that public transportation takes a long time to travel a short distance, eg 30 minutes for 4.5 miles not including the time waiting on a bus or train. More deets in the comments

A shortage of homes for sale has bedeviled U.S. house hunters in recent years, so why don’t builders build more? One problem is that they’re running out of lots to build on—at least in the places that people want to live.

Cities that were sprawling before the Great Recession have begun to sprawl again. Space-constrained cities, meanwhile, have run out of room to build. That reality has spurred developers to focus on center-city neighborhoods where high-density building is allowed—and new units command exceedingly high prices.   

In a recent scathing statement, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), a key, top-ranked U.S. science and technology think tank, has criticized the Trump administration’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2018 as being terrible for innovation and new economic growth. Stephen J. Ezell, VP, global innovation policy, ITIF, made a full statement in which he wrote: