Last July, PaySimple.com released an infographic that discussed five amazing facts about small businesses. In the United States alone, there are 30 million small businesses established with more than 500,000 started up each year – approximately one business each minute!
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Among the upgrades in the Windows 10 Creators Update are changes to how you manage and control your privacy.
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A competitive analysis tells you what exists, not why it exists.
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It’s time to pick that perfect gift for your dad. In this guide and the accompanying video, I’ll show you affordable robots, drones, robot drones, grill cleaning robots, remote-controlled robotic cameras, and more. (Hint: The Grillbot is available on Amazon).
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Which had the most impact on society: Two decades of MS-DOS compatible computing, or the first truly portable personal computer?
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After examining their product successes and failures they have distilled their process down to three questions:
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Do you have a process you use to guide your product or service development?
Learning to say “no” is an ongoing challenge, but it’s a skill you can refine every day.
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Do you say no often enough?
Today, we must compete in a networked world in which the key to competitive advantage is no longer the sum of all efficiencies, but the sum of all connections. Strategy, therefore, must be focused on widening and deepening linkages to access ecosystems of technology, talent and information.
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How is this revolution changing your business?
Busy people are hell-bent on fitting in more things into their day. Productive people cut their to-do list thoughtfully by 50 percent.
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Have you merged your contact lists?
It takes a little grunt work at the beginning, but after the initial setup, you can automatically add new contacts to your list as they come. But first, let’s compile your existing contacts into one, centralized location.
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A great tool serves only one purpose: to put control in your hands at all times, whether you’re wielding it or not.
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In this 50-year retrospective, we’re not just looking at technology year by year, we’re looking at technologies that had an impact on us, paved the way for the future, and changed us, in ways good and bad.
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It’s impossible to keep everything we need in our heads and choosing what to prioritize each day determines our results.
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Just as positive words can build us up, negative words have the power to cut us down.
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What have you been telling yourself lately?
You are often your own worst enemy. It starts with the words out of your mouth and the voices in your head.
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What have you been telling yourself that has been sabotaging you?
Google was a driving force in the technology industry ever since its disruptive entry in 1998. But in a world where people despised ads, Google’s business model was not innovation-friendly, and they missed several opportunities to pivot, ultimately rendering their numerous grand and ambitious projects unsustainable. Innovation costs money, and Google’s main stream of revenue had started to dry up.
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What will replace Google and/or Amazon?
We’ll take a look as to why to-do lists fail and whether an online solution is the way to go.
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Do you use an online to do list?
“This is no longer about data theft or business disruption. Someone can get hurt. It’s about physical consequences,” said Dan Scali, senior manager for FireEye’s industrial control system security consulting practice.
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What contingency plans do you have if your business is disrupted?
Don’t kick off a sales presentation by talking about your product, your headquarters locations, your investors, your clients, or anything about yourself. Instead, name the undeniable shift in the world that creates both (a) big stakes and (b) huge urgency for your prospect.
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The FBI has recently seen a new trend emerging for scammers to retarget past tech-support victims by posing as government officials or law enforcement, and offering assistance recovering lost funds for further fees. Some scammers also threaten legal action if victims don’t pay to settle outstanding debts for tech-support services.
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If you don’t prioritize and maximize your morning hours, you’ll always be left wondering what your life could have been. You’ll never know what you could have had.
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When you do start to work?
As you’ll see, some of these companies have made the job easier than others. It’s also important to note that downloading your data doesn’t take it away from the company in question. Each tech giant will still retain the data it has about you. But at least you’ll have a better sense of what they know.
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A free Google Chrome extension will tell you if your password has been leaked.
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All websites with login pages have been hit with bad bot traffic and face Account Takeover (ATO) attempts, according to a Tuesday report from Distil Networks.
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Are you sure your business website is safe from attack?
In machine learning, there’s something called the “No Free Lunch” theorem. In a nutshell, it states that no one algorithm works best for every problem, and it’s especially relevant for supervised learning (i.e. predictive modeling).
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Social media has matched, and in some cases, surpassed search engines as a means to reach a large and relevant audience.
Parse.ly found that 46% of their referral traffic comes from social media. Facebook alone accounts for 41.2% of that traffic.
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Has Facebook been helpful to your business?
If you use an iPhone or iPad, you owe it to yourself to be able to get the most out of your hardware, and the best way to do that is to know how to get the most of iOS 11.
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Which tip will help you the most?
As I started thinking about who was going to make money in AI I ended up with seven questions. Who will make money across the (1) chip makers, (2) platform and infrastructure providers, (3) enabling models and algorithm providers, (4) enterprise solution providers, (5) industry vertical solution providers, (6) corporate users of AI and (7) nations?
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Most people I know who suffer from high levels of burnout, stress, and anxiety have one thing in common… They compare themselves forwards instead of backwards. What do I mean by this?
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Are you burnt out?
