By Laura Desmond If the U.S. continues to reward only the rich or remarkable, what will happen to future generations? “I’m having a procedure called a D&C on Wednesday and won’t be home that night. Are you fine to stay alone?” I was in the passenger seat of my mom’s lime-green Opel Manta on the […]

By Millena Miller Cybersecurity is the latest of the non-traditional industries turning to apprenticeships to recruit talent While many employers now are grappling with the tight job market and historically low unemployment rate, one industry in particular is facing a severe hiring shortage. Cybersecurity companies have struggled to find enough good, qualified hires for decades and the situation is only getting […]

But can any company afford to manufacture one-off medical treatments? The first time someone pitched Genentech’s senior leadership on a personalized cancer vaccine, it did not go well. “I thought there was going to be a riot,” Ira Mellman, then Genentech’s head of research oncology, recalls. From across the table, he watched the scientific review […]

By Patrick Hall To achieve ‘blitzscaling,’ you have to go against common sense When it comes to startups, there’s growth, and then there’s ultra-rapid growth—what I like to call “blitzscaling.” Blitzscaling a company isn’t easy; if it were, everyone would do it. Like most things of value in this world, blitzscaling is contrarian. To succeed, you’ll have […]

  Elon Musk has reportedly entered the world of cryptocurrency, with the entrepreneur’s startup The Boring Company now accepting Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin. Founded in 2016, The Boring company’s mission is to eliminate traffic in major cities by creating a web of underground tunnels that provide a new way to rapidly move from […]

Entertainment giant Sony has just announced the development of a blockchain-based system to handle digital rights management (DRM) of its digital content. The system builds upon a previous platform that handles authenticating, sharing and rights management for Sony Global Education. The new system will also incorporate functionality for processing rights-related information. It opens the way […]

Over the years, we have witnessed many hacks, violations, frauds, and lots of money disappearing virtually overnight. Transparency still remains one of the greatest challenges in  crypto businesses. Criminal activities, like exchange hacks or ICO scams, as we have seen in the past, have greater implications for the prices of cryptocurrencies and the general crypto market […]

  By Laura Desmond In the modern scenario where we have Tokens, ICOs, Private Equity, and IPOs, how the fusion of these financials instruments can help enterprise companies and startups to create new values and in a SEC compliant way? The 2017’s ICO bubble was not only a bad thing, because a lot of projects […]

This is a great way to recycle those old milk cartons and decorate your front yard as the kids come knocking! What you need: Large plastic milk bottles Black Sharpie Glow sticks How to do it: Wash your bottles with warm, soapy water and remove any labels. Use a Sharpie to draw eyes and a […]

Suicide rates have jumped substantially among young military veterans, according to new data from the US Department of Veterans Affairs. Veterans aged 18 to 34 have higher rates of suicide than any other age group, the VA says in its National Suicide Data Report. The rate for those young veterans increased to 45 suicide deaths […]