Workshifting:
Heard this term and loved it. Many thanks and a shout out to term creator: @JustinLevy and @workshifting!
It’s working from any location (your home, hopefully close to your home or your vacation spot of choice:) The location can vary from day to day. Remember with workshifting environments or satellite offices, you can grow as much as you want with no overhead while also preserving the environment by limiting CO2 Emissions that you’d otherwise use driving to the office. Whatever, wherever inspires you. Literally a "virtual corporation"
There’s no reason with all of the technology today that people cannot work from home or any remote location if they so choose and their position allows. (Obviously this wouldn’t apply to all fields, however an office environment does apply) If off the bat you have trust issues with an employee then you really need to evaluate your own ability to hire. Put a few common sense rules in place then treat people like grown-ups…until they prove their not. Then cut bait. Due to child labor law’s there’s NO room for children in the work place I always say. ;) Let them go home and play in their own sandbox and waste their own sand. No warnings. You can’t lock them in Fabric Cells (cubeland) and expect change.
A new crowdfunding platfrom, Sponzu.com, is set to help individuals, non-for-profits, and cause-related initiatives get exposure, build following and raise money to drive their ideas and projects.
(I-Newswire) New York, NY, February 10, 2011 - Sponzu.com, a new crowdfunding site that was launched in December 2010 is off to a great start. Only a few weeks after it's debut on the web, the site has attracted a number of non-for-profit organizations that are seeking exposure and funding.
Gaia Psychology Foundation, Green Theater Collective, and My Sister's Place, are among the organizations that see the benefits of Sponzu's unique approach to crowdfunding.
Breaking down the technical and legal barriers are essential if technology transfer from academia to industry is to be done efficiently and effectively, according to researchers in Spain. Antonio Hidalgo, Professor of Technology Strategy at the Technical University of Madrid and José Albors, Professor of Business Administration at the Technical University of Valencia explain that publicity and prestige are not enough to allow the smooth transfer of knowledge from universities to the commercial sector.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Republican legislators want to boost job growth by giving tax breaks to millionaires who invest in fledgling South Carolina companies.
Supporters said Thursday the proposal is meant to encourage rich investors to put their money in startup businesses that will create high-paying jobs in a state struggling with high unemployment.
SPRINGFIELD — As Wisconsin and New Jersey governors work to lure Illinois businesses away, new legislation backed by the state treasurer would work to attract new startup technology companies and retain existing firms.
Senate Bill 107 would authorize the state treasurer to invest up to 2 percent of the state's portfolio into venture capital funds, which then would invest money into Illinois-based technology companies.
Similar legislation has been introduced in the past and failed to gain enough support from lawmakers. But now, the state’s treasurer is pushing to get the new plan approved.
Surprise: we’re writing about an incubator. (OK, it might not come as a surprise. There’s been no shortage of news surrounding programs designed to create and accelerate tech startups across the nation, as my colleague Greg recently noted.)
The Education Ventures Program, which will kick off later this month, is a bit different, though. It’s not necessarily looking for the next billion-dollar Web or software startup, but is entirely focused on developing businesses and technologies out to improve education.
Steve Burrill, the biotech prognosticator/meeting impresario/speaker/writer/banker/investor, likes to say he’s “geographically agnostic.” To me, that sounds like one way of saying he hunts for the best biotech investing opportunities in the world. It also essentially means he could care less about the chamber-style boosterism and sentimentality that sometimes clouds the judgment of well-intended folks who just want to support local business and stir local economic growth.
As Burrill told me this week, talking on his mobile phone during a taxi ride in London: “Our paycheck comes from building great companies.” He added: “You can build a powerful company anywhere.”
For a decade now U.S. city planners have obsessively pursued college graduates, adopting policies to make their cities more like dense hot spots such as New York, to which the "brains" allegedly flock.
But in the past 10 years "hip and cool" places like New York have suffered high levels of domestic outmigration. Some boosters rationalize this by saying the U.S. is undergoing a "bipolar migration"--an argument recently laid out by Derek Thompson in The Atlantic. On the one hand the smart "brains" head for cool, coastal cities like New York and Boston, while "families" and "feet"--a term that seems to apply to the less cognitively gifted--trudge to the the nation's southern tier--a.k.a. the Sun Belt--for cheap prices and warm weather. "College graduates with bachelor's degrees or higher," Thompson notes, "have been moving to the coasts, like salmon swimming against the southwesterly current."
Last week, I had the amazing opportunity to consult with dozens of entrepreneurs — at 35,000 feet in a jet over the Atlantic. Now, I've done a lot of consulting, including at New York's Grand Central Station, but this was the first time I've ever been in a 747 filled entirely with entrepreneurs.
These were winners of British Airways' "Face of Opportunity" contest, and I'm a member of the advisory board
New research from Warwick Medical School published today in the European Heart Journal shows that prolonged sleep deprivation and disrupted sleep patterns can have long-term, serious health implications. Leading academics from the University have linked lack of sleep to strokes, heart attacks and cardiovascular disorders which often result in early death.
Professor Francesco Cappuccio from the University of Warwick Medical School, explained: “If you sleep less than six hours per night and have disturbed sleep you stand a 48 per cent greater chance of developing or dying from heart disease and a 15 per cent greater chance of developing or dying of a stroke.
The top ten electronic paper devices that consumers can expect both near term and in the next ten to 20 years, according to an article in the February issue of the Journal of the Society for Information Display, are:
Coming later this year:
* Color e-readers will be out in the consumer market by mid year in 2011. However, cautions Heikenfeld, the color will be muted as compared to what consumers are accustomed to, say, on an iPad. Researchers will continue to work toward next-generation (brighter) color in e-Readers as well as high-speed functionality that will eventually allow for point-and-click web browsing and video on devices like the Kindle.
A new model for developing cures is winning battles in the war against disease in laboratories, clinics and research centers around the world. The hallmarks of this movement are collaboration and the sharing of intellectual property in a wide-open manner that cuts against the grain of traditional for-profit drug discovery.
The new initiatives take many forms. Some target conditions ranging from Alzheimer's to tuberculosis through alliances of foundations, nonprofits, universities, corporations and government agencies. Others make years of research available at the click of a mouse button to scientists around the world. Still others are carving out new financial and regulatory paths for bringing drugs to market at an accelerated pace.