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Office Productivity Takes a Hit in the Afternoon, Particularly on Fridays
A Texas A&M study shows productivity dips in the afternoon and on Fridays among office workers, advocating for flexible work to boost efficiency and well-being.
An innovative study from the Texas A&M School of Public Health offers objectiv...
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Preparing to Raise Debt or Equity Financing
Once a start-up’s financial needs exceed what personal funds, friends and family, and bootstrapping can provide, debt and equity are the two most common sources of funds. The most important thing an entrepreneur must do at this point is determine p...
Sources of Personal Financing
Typically, the seed money that gets a company off the ground comes from the founders’ own pockets. There are three categories of sources of money in this area: personal funds, friends and family, and bootstrapping.
1. Pe...
Business Idea: Create a Website and a smartphone app that provides a visual guide to great food and where to find it.
Company: Foodspotting
Business Idea: Create a Website and a smartphone app that provides a visual guide to great food and where to find it. Instead of reviewing restaurants, users will share where to find their fa...
Business Idea: Create an online community that links interns (primarily college students) with entrepreneurial start-ups and change-oriented nonprofit organizations.
Company: YouTern
Business Idea: Create an online community that links interns (primarily college students) with entrepreneurial start-ups and change-oriented nonprofit organizations.
Pitch: Int...
52 Tips for Losing Weight
A Tip a Week
If you add one of these tips a week to your daily routine, in one year you will have developed some very healthy habits!
1. Eliminate one tablespoon of fat a day and you will lose 10 pounds in a ye...
The Law of Cause and Effect – Everything happens for a reason; there is a cause for every effect.
This is the “Iron Law” of human destiny. This law says that we live in a world governed by law, not chance. It says that everything happens for a reason, whether or not we know what it is. Every effect, success or failure, wealth or poverty, has ...
Organizing Buying Groups to Cut Costs and Maintain Competitiveness
One challenge that businesses confront is cutting costs in ways that don’t erode their ability to remain competitive. Many cost-cutting techniques, such as scaling back on hiring, lowering marketing expenses, or reducing inventory, may save money b...
What's In A Business Name?: A Lot Of Trouble If You Aren't Careful
Introduction
While at first glance naming a business may seem like a minor issue, it is an extremely important one. A company’s name is one of the first things people associate with a business, and it is a word or phrase that wi...
Vesting Ownership in Company Stock: A Sound Strategy for Start-Ups
If you’re not familiar with vesting, the idea is that when a firm is launched, instead of issuing stock outright to the founders, the stock is distributed over a period of time, typically three to four years, as the founder or founders “e...
99designs: Making Partnering with Freelancers the Essence of Its Disruptive Business Model
Start-ups typically have a variety of design needs including logo design, brochures, stationery, and business cards. Traditionally the most important design work, like a business’s logo, is either done by the business itself or contracted out to a ...
Thriving in a Crowded Industry by Creating Meaningful Value and Differentiation from Competitors
Firms do well in a crowded industry when two conditions exist: (1) they create meaningful value for customers at a fair price and (2) they effectively differentiate themselves from competitors. In fact, diminishing the impact of thre...
Shield your brain from decline
Use the SHIELD acronym to remember the lifestyle habits that will help protect your memory and thinking skills.
We are making encouraging progress in finding medications that prevent or even reverse cognitive decline. Until we get there, however, ...
Business Idea: Provide musicians a platform to reach out to their fan base to financially contribute to upcoming recordings or other musical projects.
Business Idea: Provide musicians a platform to reach out to their fan base to financially contribute to upcoming recordings or other musical projects.
Pitch: Musicians often have creative ideas for recordings or s...
Finding the Right Business Partner
One thing that becomes clear to many potential business founders, while conducting organizational feasibility analysis, is that they need one or more partners to help launch their business. You might be a Web developer who has a great idea for a Web ...
ScriptPad: Interesting Idea—But Will Doctors and Pharmacies Sign On?
To ScriptPad founder and CEO Shane Taylor, the problem his company solves is personal. Taylor’s father, who is fighting both heart disease and cancer, takes 26 different medications to fight his illnesses. Any mix-up or error associated with taking...
Want Help Fine-Tuning a Business Idea? Find a Mentor
Fine-tuning a business idea isn’t easy. While fairly course-grained ideas are rather easy to develop, like creating a cell-phone that’s designed specifically for elderly people, fleshing out the details is where experience helps. This reality put...
Working Together: How Biotech Firms and Large Drug Companies Bring Pharmaceutical Products to Market
Large firms and smaller entrepreneurial firms play different roles in business and society and can often produce the best results by partnering with each other rather than acting as adversaries. The pharmaceutical industry is an excellent example of ...
Learning how to meditate
Meditation has been practiced for thousands of years and it continues to grow in popularity. This mindful practice can help aid anxiety and depression, chronic pain, cancer, bowel diseases, high blood pressure, insomnia, addiction and so much more.
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PatientsLikeMe: Allowing People with Serious Diseases to Connect with One Another and Exchange Support and Advice
PatientsLikeMe: Allowing People with Serious Diseases to Connect with One Another and Exchange Support and Advice
Web: www.patientslikeme.com
Jamie a...
How Companies and Organizations Build Credibility and Trust
How Companies and Organizations Build Credibility and Trust
There are several ways companies and organizations can build credibility and trust. We present eight techniques that are essential in nearly all cases in the following list.
Te...
Business Idea: Provide a user-friendly, affordable, and effective platform for authors to self-publish books, and obtain real-time feedback on the books they’re working on.
Company: FastPencil
Web: www.fastpencil.com
Business Idea: Provide a user-friendly, affordable, and effective platform for authors to s...
Business Idea: Create a single place for music lovers to track or keep up with their favorite bands, so they’ll always know where and when the bands will be performing in their area.
Business Idea: Create a single place for music lovers to track or keep up with their favorite bands, so they’ll always know where and when the bands will be performing in their area.
In addition, create an online platform for c...
CREATING A NEW-VENTURE TEAM
Those who launch or found an entrepreneurial venture have an important role to play in shaping the firm’s business concept. Stated even more directly, it is widely known that a well-conceived business plan cannot get off the ground unless a firm ha...
Discuss the differences among sole proprietorships, partnerships, corporations, and limited liability companies.
When a business is launched, a form of legal entity must be chosen. Sole proprietorship, partnerships, corporations, and limited liability companies are the most common legal entities from which entrepreneurs make a choice. Choosing ...
Airbnb: How Listening to Customers and Iterating the Business Model Helped Shape and Mold a Successful Start-up
Airbnb: How Listening to Customers and Iterating the Business Model Helped Shape and Mold a Successful Start-up
Web: www.airbnb.com
Introduction
It all st...
Components of an effective business model
1. Core strategy (how a firm competes)
2. Strategic resources (how a firm acquires and uses its resources)
3. Partnership network (how a firm structures and nurtures its partnerships)
Six distinct ways of making money online
Six distinct ways of making money online (the way an online company makes money largely defines its business model)
1. Affiliate programs
An affiliate program is a way for online merchants, like 1-800-FLOWERS, ...
COMPETITOR ANALYSIS
After a firm has gained an understanding of the industry and the target market in which it plans to compete, the next step is to complete a competitor analysis. A competitor analysis is a detailed analysis of a firm’s competition. It helps a firm u...
Some excellent ways to increase your self-awareness
1. Personal diaries
An excellent way to increase your self-awareness is to keep a diary. In it make a daily note of the important things that happen. Be honest and open with yourself. Be willing to reflect upon your beliefs, thoug...
Maintaining positive thoughts
• E. G. S. Emotional Guidance System - Your inner guide
It is said that the average human being has approximately 64,000 thoughts per day. Protecting all of your thoughts 24 hours a day can be a full-time job. There is a better way to gauge how ...
TECHNIQUES FOR GENERATING IDEAS
In general, entrepreneurs identify more ideas than opportunities because many ideas are typically generated to find the best way to capitalize on an opportunity. Several techniques can be used to stimulate and facilitate the generation of new ideas f...
The 3 sources of business ideas
1. Observing Trends
The first approach to identifying opportunities is to observe trends and study how they create opportunities for entrepreneurs to pursue. The most important trends to follow are economic trends, social trends, ...
Success depends on Well Concentrated Efforts
The Successful Lives Are the Concentrated Lives.
Concentration means success, because you are better able to govern yourself and centralize your mind; you become more in earnest in what you do and this almost invariably improves your chances f...
Scientists Reveal Two Simple Words That Can Improve Your Relationship
The research found that greater levels of perceived gratitude protect couples from common stressors such as ineffective arguing and financial problems and promote relationship stability.
• The power of “thank you” – Feeling appreciated by ...
Study: People With Depression Are Less Likely To Have Children
Depression is a mental health condition characterized by persistent feelings of sadness, hopelessness, and lack of interest or pleasure in activities. It can also cause physical symptoms such as fatigue, changes in appetite and sleep patterns, and di...
Writing a thank-you note is more powerful than you think
Writing thank-you notes is not just good manners. It can have a strong psychological effect for both the sender and receiver, suggests research published in the September 2018 issue of Psychological Science.
While most people consider showing an ...
Giving thanks can make you happier
Each holiday season comes with high expectations for a cozy and festive time of year. However, for many this time of year is tinged with sadness, anxiety, or depression. Certainly, major depression or a severe anxiety disorder benefits most from prof...
Eating Ultra-Processed “Ready-To-Eat-or-Heat” Foods Linked to Premature Death
A new study found that increased consumption of ultra-processed foods was associated with more than 10% of all-cause premature, preventable deaths in Brazil in 2019. This is especially alarming, because Brazilians consume far less of these products t...
Study shows the power of 'thank you' for couples
Gratitude has been a trendy sentiment in recent years – sparking an industry of journals, knickknacks and T-shirts touting thankfulness as a positive force in individuals’ lives.
New research suggests that gratitude from one’s partner may be...
Mini relaxation technique to overcome grief
Dealing with grief and loss is extremely stressful. During this time it may help to take mini-relaxation breaks. If you have three minutes, try this: While seated, take a break to check your body for tension. Relax your facial muscles and allow your ...
Scientists: Put Down Your Devices and Let Your Mind Wander
Taking some time to just sit and think might be far more enjoyable than you expect.
People don’t realize how enjoyable it is to sit and think.
According to research from the American Psychological Association, people often underestimate how m...
Using digital media to relax is related to lower-quality parenting
Caregivers who consume digital media for relaxation are more likely to engage in negative parenting practices, according to a new multinational study.
The new study led by the University of Waterloo aimed to investigate the relationship between ...
Vitamin B6 supplements could reduce anxiety and depression
Taking high-dose Vitamin B6 tablets has been shown to reduce feelings of anxiety and depression by new research.
Scientists at the University of Reading measured the impact of high doses of Vitamin B6 on young adults and found that they reported ...
Cyberbullying puts targeted adolescents at risk for suicide, study suggests
Beyond the many stressors that young adolescents face, being a target of cyberbullying is an independent risk factor for suicide -- above and beyond traditional offline bullying, according to a study released Monday.
That's the finding of a new st...
Study reports first evidence of social relationships between chimpanzees, gorillas
2 years ago (Sun, Oct 02, 2022 at 10:47 AM)
A long-term study led by primatologist Crickette Sanz at Washington University in St. Louis reveals the first evidence of lasting social relationships between chimpanzees and gorillas in the wild.
Drawn from more than 20 years of observations at Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park in the Republic of Congo, researchers documented social ties between individual chimpanzees and gorillas that persisted over years and across different contexts. The research was conducted by scientists from Washington University, the Wildlife Conservation Society, the University of Johannesburg (South Africa) and Linco... Continue reading ››
Drawn from more than 20 years of observations at Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park in the Republic of Congo, researchers documented social ties between individual chimpanzees and gorillas that persisted over years and across different contexts. The research was conducted by scientists from Washington University, the Wildlife Conservation Society, the University of Johannesburg (South Africa) and Linco... Continue reading ››
Over 200 Million Years Old – Scientists Discover Africa’s Oldest Known Dinosaur
2 years ago (Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 02:30 PM)
During two digs in Zimbabwe in 2017 and 2019, a graduate student from Virginia Tech discovered and unearthed the fossil with the assistance of other paleontologists.
A new, early dinosaur has been found and named by an international team of paleontologists under the direction of Virginia Tech. The skeleton was discovered by a graduate student in the Virginia Tech Department of Geosciences and other paleontologists over the course of two excavations, in 2017 and 2019. Astonishingly, most of the skeleton is still complete.
The findings of this new sauropodomorph – a long-necked dinosaur ... Continue reading ››
A new, early dinosaur has been found and named by an international team of paleontologists under the direction of Virginia Tech. The skeleton was discovered by a graduate student in the Virginia Tech Department of Geosciences and other paleontologists over the course of two excavations, in 2017 and 2019. Astonishingly, most of the skeleton is still complete.
The findings of this new sauropodomorph – a long-necked dinosaur ... Continue reading ››
Researchers Discover That Wolves Can Show Attachment Toward Humans
2 years ago (Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 12:16 PM)
When it comes to showing affection towards people, many dogs are naturals. Now a report in the journal Ecology and Evolution reveals that the remarkable ability to show attachment behavior toward human caregivers also exists in wolves.
The findings were made when scientists at Stockholm University, Sweden, tested 10 wolves and 12 dogs in a behavioral test specifically designed to quantify attachment behaviors in canids. (Canids are members of the Canidae family of carnivorous animats, which includes domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, foxes, jackals, dingoes, and many other extant and extinct d... Continue reading ››
The findings were made when scientists at Stockholm University, Sweden, tested 10 wolves and 12 dogs in a behavioral test specifically designed to quantify attachment behaviors in canids. (Canids are members of the Canidae family of carnivorous animats, which includes domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, foxes, jackals, dingoes, and many other extant and extinct d... Continue reading ››
Female monkeys with female friends live longer
2 years ago (Sun, Aug 14, 2022 at 05:12 AM)
Key takeaways:
1. Strength of female-female relationships. Female capuchin monkeys who are better integrated into social networks with other adult females tend to survive longer.
2. Social interactions are helpful. These include giving and receiving grooming, foraging nearby and helping each other in conflicts by fighting or making aggressive sounds and facial expressions.
3. Monkeys test their friendships. Researchers observed capuchins engaging in interactions that involve risky or uncomfortable elements — such as poking a finger into a friend’s eye socket — to test the qualit... Continue reading ››
1. Strength of female-female relationships. Female capuchin monkeys who are better integrated into social networks with other adult females tend to survive longer.
2. Social interactions are helpful. These include giving and receiving grooming, foraging nearby and helping each other in conflicts by fighting or making aggressive sounds and facial expressions.
3. Monkeys test their friendships. Researchers observed capuchins engaging in interactions that involve risky or uncomfortable elements — such as poking a finger into a friend’s eye socket — to test the qualit... Continue reading ››
More dogs in the neighborhood often means less crime
2 years ago (Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 04:34 PM)
If you want to find a safe neighborhood to live in, choose one where the residents trust each other – and have a lot of dogs to walk.
In a study conducted in Columbus, researchers found that neighborhoods with more dogs had lower rates of homicide, robbery and, to a lesser extent, aggravated assaults compared to areas with fewer dogs, at least when residents also had high levels of trust in each other.
The results suggest that people walking their dogs puts more "eyes on the street," which can discourage crime, said Nicolo Pinchak, lead author of the study and a doctoral student in soc... Continue reading ››
In a study conducted in Columbus, researchers found that neighborhoods with more dogs had lower rates of homicide, robbery and, to a lesser extent, aggravated assaults compared to areas with fewer dogs, at least when residents also had high levels of trust in each other.
The results suggest that people walking their dogs puts more "eyes on the street," which can discourage crime, said Nicolo Pinchak, lead author of the study and a doctoral student in soc... Continue reading ››
When male buddies become less important than female mating partners
2 years ago (Thu, May 26, 2022 at 09:26 AM)
Close friendships among males are rare in the animal kingdom, as males usually compete for rank and access to females. However, male friendships can also be beneficial for male reproduction, as friends can provide support in climbing the rank ladder or defending females from other males. Scientists have now investigated the benefits of male friendships in wild Guinea baboons in Senegal.
Spider can hide underwater for 30 minutes
2 years ago (Tue, May 10, 2022 at 12:13 PM)
A tropical spider species uses a “film” of air to hide underwater from predators for as long as 30 minutes, according to faculty at Binghamton University.
Why do cats’ eyes glow in the dark?
2 years ago (Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 12:44 PM)
Cats and many other animals, including most dogs, can reflect light from their eyes. That’s why cats’ eyes will usually shine brightly in photos taken in a dimly lit room or glow when illuminated in the dark by a flashlight or a car’s headlights.
Researchers Discover Dolphin Females Have Working Clitoris – “Surprisingly Similar” to the Shape in Humans
2 years ago (Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 02:19 PM)
Like humans, female dolphins have a functional clitoris, according to a study appearing in the journal Current Biology. The findings are based on the discovery that the clitoris-like structure positioned in the vaginal entrance of bottlenose dolphins has lots of sensory nerves and erectile bodies.
“The dolphin clitoris has many features to suggest that it functions to provide pleasure to females,” says first author Patricia Brennan, an assistant professor of biological sciences at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts.
“The dolphin clitoris has many features to suggest that it functions to provide pleasure to females,” says first author Patricia Brennan, an assistant professor of biological sciences at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts.
Elephants Solve Problems with Personality
3 years ago (Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 02:57 PM)
Just as humans have their own individual personalities, new research in the Journal of Comparative Psychology shows that elephants have personalities, too. Moreover, an elephant’s personality may play an important role in how well that elephant can solve novel problems.
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