Category Archives: Business
This Furniture Startup Wants You To Meet The Craftsman Who Made Your Sofa
An ex-Birchbox executive is looking to bring radical transparency to furniture buying, and it’s about time.
This year, my husband and I decided to finally shed the beat-up Ikea furniture we had acquired in our twenties. We’d just bought a house and it seemed like the right time to start investing in a proper, well-made sofa, dining set, and bed that would (hopefully) last until our toddler is off to college.
Source:: Fast Company
Huge Swaths Of America’s Communities Are Economically Stagnant: How Can We Make Them Grow?
There’s an enormous need to develop and implement policies that support the establishment and growth of businesses in stagnant communities–and redirect some VC dollars away from the coasts.
After the dust from the 2008 recession settled, the consensus around the U.S. economy has: We’re doing fine. From 2011 onward, national-level jobs reports have shown a fairly steady uptick in employment and new business formation. From an unemployment rate of around 10% in 2010, we’ve dropped down to just 4.4%.
Source:: Fast Company
This Is Why Job Candidates Should Interview Each Other
You can learn a lot more about what it will be like to work with someone when you sit back and let them ask the questions.
In a traditional job interview, the interviewer is in the driver’s seat, controlling the questions, pace, and format of the meeting. This may be standard operating procedure, but it’s the worst possible way of identifying a good fit, says Udemy leadership coach Lawrence Miller.
Source:: Fast Company
Is CRISPR the favorite to win this year’s Nobel Prize? Maybe
CRISPR (that’s short for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) is the coolest gene-editing technique around, and it is revolutionizing the field of biochemistry by making it faster, easier, cheaper, and more precise to delete, repair, or replace genes. Radiolab has a great explainer on the tech, which you can listen to here, and we …
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Source:: Fast Company
Apple, Google, And Microsoft Ranked Three Most Valuable Global Brands Of 2017
Interbrand’s 2017 Best Global Brands list also features newcomers Ferrari, Netflix, and Salesforce.com.
Over the last 18 years, Interbrand has been ranking the value of global brands, and for the last five years Apple and Google have held the top two positions. The newest Best Global Brands report and ranking saw Microsoft hit double-digit growth to jump up to No. 3. The remaining Top 10 are Coca-Cola, Amazon, Samsung, Toyota, Facebook, Mercedes, and IBM.
Source:: Fast Company
