A 2016 survey conducted by Deloitte indicates that by the year 2020, two in three Millennials are expected to hand in their resignation and quit their job. But it’s not just a salary issue, according to research from PsychTests, turnover isn’t a plague of the young either. The researchers call attention to factors all employers will need to look out for if they hope to keep talented employees, both younger and older.

In the middle of October, a nearly 2,000-foot-long floating device designed to capture plastic trash in the ocean arrived in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, halfway between California and Hawaii. It was the beginning of a first-of-a-kind experiment: Could new technology help remove the 1.8 trillion-plus pieces of plastic that float in the area?

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Since 2010, Seattle has added more than 100,000 new residents — but you may not be able to tell by looking around at the housing stock in most of the city.

According to a report from the Seattle Planning Commission released this week, nearly all of those residents have been absorbed into areas zoned for multifamily living, including the mixed-use “Urban Villages” that the city has targeted for increased density over the past few years.

Image: In this Dec. 13, 2017, photo, a man walks dogs through a single-family neighborhood dotted with bungalows and stately Craftsman homes in Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) - https://nextcity.org

Though this season is meant to be full of joy and maybe even some downtime, most people feel pressure to attend several professional holiday parties and other obligations, all while meeting family demands and finishing out the year with a bang.

If there is a situation that can make even the most experienced entrepreneur nervous, is presenting their business ideas to investors. Let's deep dive and discuss 7 other things that you must know before you reach out to an investor:

I spent eight years failing to act on an innovative idea that I knew would work. It was an idea that had not just technological promise but also societal value. It would help people contribute to the most important, impactful charities in the country. But I kept letting it languish.

The biggest reason I held back wasn’t fear, being too busy or lazy, or any of the other natural blockades to entrepreneurship. It was something else.

The University City Science Center's DHA program created a blind initial application process that focuses on the founders’ ability to communicate their idea with the goal of removing biases associated with how screeners perceive the founding team.

For one accelerator, improving healthcare startup diversity means taking on the challenge of removing bias from the screening process.

Fear is a fundamental part of human psychology. Our brains are wired to feel fear because it helps us avoid calamity; it keeps us safe.

But fear can also hold us back -- if we let it. Fear feeds on fear, meaning the more we try to avoid something we’re afraid of, the bigger and deeper our anxiety grows. To overcome this, we must face our deep-seated misgivings and worries. We have to acknowledge our fears and find ways to move beyond them.

Every entrepreneur has an idea for transforming a market with innovative new technology, or transforming society with a new process. But unfortunately, most of these ideas fail at the execution level, or are not truly innovative. Entrepreneurs who have been really transformative, like Steve Jobs and Walt Disney, seemed to know how to deal with all the right elements.

A decade ago, a wave of companies promised to transform people’s health by allowing them to track data about their eating, sleep, exercise, and other habits. One hot startup of that moment, Zeo, raised more than $30 million from investors to develop a headband that tracked users’ sleep patterns and an accompanying app to serve as their personal “sleep coach.” Despite devoted users and buzz about its product in publications like Wired and Popular Science, Zeo quietly went out of business a few years later.

The rapid rise of variation in everyday goods and services, from which cereal we eat in the morning to which toothpaste we brush our teeth with at night, gives the perception of unlimited choice. For example, if you’re deciding which bottled water to buy, the possibilities range from budget brands, like Deer Park or Ozarka, to higher-end options, like Perrier or S. Pellegrino. But this appearance of choice is actually manufactured. All of the aforementioned brands are owned by one company: Nestle.

Despite the recent drop in Silicon Valley stock prices, there is some good news beneath the surface of technology finance. In their most recent update, PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association showed that US venture investments for the third quarter totaled nearly $28 billion. For the year, it looks like venture investments will top $100 billion, exceeding the previous record by more than $20 billion.

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Like wealthy New York “angels” who funded Broadway productions a century ago, today’s angel investors have a healthy appetite for risk, providing personal capital to fledgling companies in exchange for equity. While angels don’t get the same attention as venture capitalists (VCs), who tend to focus on later-stage investment rounds, they do play a key role in the financial ecosystem for innovative, high-growth startups.

Warning! Scuttle your plans to sleep in 'til noon Sunday! Forget today's power nap! Cancel your membership to sleep cafes like Nap York!

The reason: Too much sleep could kill you, according to scientists.

A global study released by the European Heart Journal reports that sleeping more than the recommended six to eight hours a night increased subjects' risk of stroke, heart failure and other cardiovascular problems, as well as death, by as much as 41 percent. The study attracted attention because of its scope: data came from 116,613 people, ages 35 to 70, from 21 countries. Over a period of 7.8 years, 4,381 deaths and 4,365 major cardiovascular events were reported.

Finland has launched a research and development (R&D) ecosystem which will support developers of the latest IT, including internet of things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI).

The project, which is being managed by the state-run innovation agency VTT (Valtion Teknillinen Tutkimuskeskus/State Technology research centre), forms part of the Finnish government’s plan to reposition Finland as a leading developer of advanced innovations across mobile communications, AI and digital technologies.

We’re all tempted to use words that we’re not too familiar with.

If this were the only problem, I wouldn’t have much to write about. That’s because we’re cautious with words we’re unsure of, and, thus, they don’t create much of an issue for us.

It’s the words that we think we’re using correctly that wreak the most havoc.

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When an entrepreneur is ready to add a key No. 2 position to their business team, there are a few important things to consider.

Startup consultant Gina Catalano gave these tips at Startup Coffee.

“It’s a big challenge when you start going from doing everything to starting to know that you have to bring other people on to help you reach your vision,” she said. “And not everybody makes that leap really well.”

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Starting a new business is always a whirlwind venture. There’s so much to do that organization and communication quickly become critical to continued success. Even if you planned for every outcome, there are bound to be new problems that need your immediate attention. Overcoming these challenges is how an entrepreneur tests his or her mettle.

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When a physician asks health-related questions, they usually expect the wholehearted truth. After all, honesty is supposed to be the best policy. However, if you’ve stretched the truth to your doctor, you may not be alone.

A new study shows that between 60 and 80 percent of patients say that they haven’t told their doctors the truth or have withheld information from them.

This study was published in the JAMA Network Open journal by researchers at University of Utah Health and Middlesex Community College, Connecticut, in conjunction with authors from the University of Michigan, Wayne State University, and the University of Iowa.

Despite the ease of communication through social media, new tools, the popularity of fearless independence and #MeToo, I still see many business organizations that are less than productive due to fear. Yet in my work as an advisor to senior executives, I find that many fail to see reality in their own organizations, and have no idea whether they are part of the problem or the solution.