Category Archives: Business
Are You a Real Entrepreneur or Just an Entrepreneur Lite?
It all comes down to facing your fears, challenging yourself and breaking out of your comfort zone.
Source:: Entrepreneur
You Can Learn Arabic–And Empathy–By Connecting With Refugees On Skype
NaTakallam provides an income for refugees struggling to find work and connections after being displaced from their home country.
Every time she speaks at a conference, the humanitarian-worker-turned-entrepreneur Aline Sara asks her audience to close their eyes, and think of the word “refugee.” What comes to mind for almost everybody, she tells Fast Company, are crowded camps or boats adrift in the Mediterranean. Almost nobody thinks of someone with a degree, someone with knowledge and skills to offer.
Source:: Fast Company
Don’t Obsess Over the Competition
Valeria Basso, owner of Symphonic Communications, says that you always need to do work that you believe in because it can reflect who you are.
Source:: Entrepreneur
Rethinking Sales and Marketing in the ‘Post-Truth’ Era
In the Post-Truth Era, you might be wondering, “Will I need to be even more liberal in my treatment of ‘the truth’ to compete?”
Source:: Entrepreneur
Boy Genius Boyan Slat’s Giant Ocean Cleanup Machine Is Real
A system of trash-collecting booms will launch in 2018, and–the 22-year-old inventor claims–will collect half the plastic trash in the Pacific Garbage Patch in five years.
When the oceanographer Charles Moore first discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch–an area of the ocean where currents concentrate the plastic we throw into the ocean–in 1997, he was shocked by its magnitude and persistence. “It seemed unbelievable, but I never found a clear spot,” he wrote later in Natural History magazine. “In the week it took to cross the subtropical high, no matter what time of day I looked, plastic debris was floating everywhere: Read More
Source:: Fast Company
