Why are these businesses growing? Factors such as the growth of free and automated digital and mobile tools and the expansion of online platforms that make it easy to hire contractors all contribute. But entrepreneurs’ attitudes are changing, too…
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The benefits of solopreneurship are better experienced than reported, yet if you’re curious about the lives of these disentangled, high-risk, high-reward captains of their own fate and are considering taking the same plunge, here’s what you can expect…
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As of 2015, the U.S. Census Bureau reported that there were more than 2.7 million nonemployer firms that are run solely by owners. Of that group, 35,584 were bringing in anywhere from $1 million to $2.49 million a year.
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Workplace robots equipped with AI will let automation creep into many more areas of work. They could replace people anywhere that products need to be sorted, unpacked, or packed.
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The payoff, compared with the time invested (about three minutes per day) was so large that I saw no reason to stop. Tracking my time has changed how I think about my time.
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The foundation is understanding when in your life you were most successful, most productive, and when you were experiencing peak performance. This will be different for everybody, but this is my analysis and interpretation of how and when I function best, and if you are at all similar to me, use this methodology, and this guide, or at least some variation of it.
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Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is addressing the needs of small businesses through access, storage and security while changing the way small businesses store data.
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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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Learning to say “no” is an ongoing challenge, but it’s a skill you can refine every day.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The first foundational quality one must have to achieve success is having guts. It can be extremely intimidating to start a business, and if you lack the courage to face your fears and get started then success will not materialize on any level.
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Singh said the goal was to make it possible for end users to never deal with a password in their day-to-day lives, and to provide instead user credentials that cannot be cracked, breached, or phished.
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It is a capital improvement project the size of the entire planet, replacing one wireless architecture created this century with another one that aims to lower energy consumption and maintenance costs. Sure, you’ll download movies faster on your phone, but that’s not the real reason 5G’s arrival is being accelerated.
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If you still have trouble justifying your price to customers — even after implementing the strategies in this article — then you might not have a pricing problem. You might have a problem communicating the value of your product.
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As a new manager, it’s also critical to share the WHY behind your vision, priorities, expectations, feedback, or requests. Don’t dilute your message. Instead, make it more powerful by sharing more about the context.
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“I’ve been working on a new electronic cash system that’s fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party.” These are the words of Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious creator of Bitcoin, in a message sent to a cryptography-focused mailing list in October 2008. Included was a link to a nine-page white paper describing a technology that some are now convinced will disrupt the financial system.
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Top performers did less and more: less volume of activities, more concentrated effort.
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Overwork kills your creativity because an idle brain is anything but idle. When you take time to rest, your Default Network lights up, connecting pieces of your brain that don’t usually talk to one another. The result is often bursts of inspiration and creativity….
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5 Proven Benefits of Thankfulness
Thankfulness will not only make you happier, it will help you to achieve your very real goals. It will strengthen your relationships, help to maintain your health, and ultimately enable you to live a more productive life. You don’t have to take my word for it; the science of thankfulness is well documented. Here are five proven benefits of thankfulness to get you motivated.
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