According to the U.S. Department of Labor, 60% of all new jobs in the 21st century will require skills that only 20% of employees have. In a market increasingly penalized by a lack of strategic skills and talent available, it is absolutely imperative that your staff are able to meet your goals. Management solution for […]
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1600 – The British East India Company is chartered. 1695 – A window tax is imposed in England, causing many householders to brick up windows to avoid the tax. 1759 – Arthur Guinness signs a 9,000 year lease at £45 per annum and starts brewing Guinness. 1879 – Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the
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If you want to be prepared for tax season next year, now is the time to absorb all the information you’ll need and make a few changes. Several of the enhanced deductions available to business owners and the self-employed have to do with the purchase and depreciation of assets. And currently, the IRS designates different
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WSJ: Christmas tree geneticist John Frampton rubs the sprigs of a two-inch seedling, planted two years ago from the seed of a fir cone from the Uludag Mountain region in western Turkey. This Uludag seedling tube is one of thousands in a greenhouse at North Carolina State University, where Mr. Frampton tests DNA and blends
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Parenthood inspires moms everyday. It also inspired Julie DeFruscio. When her young daughter was diagnosed with diabetes and needed to carry an insulin pump around, she decided to find a way to make clothes her daughter would love, reports The Wall Street Journal. “It was awful to see such ugly medical-looking items that were our
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Once again, young entrepreneurs can compete their way into a change to pitch their business ideas to Warren Buffet. Young people, aged 7 to 16, individually or in teams of 2 to 4 can submit their entries to the second annual “Grow Your Own Business Challengeâ€, with a chance to win prizes and the ear
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Last night was the first episode of season two of the History Channel show Invention USA. If you missed it, you can watch it here. Invention USA follows Scotty Ziegler and Reichart Von Wolfsheild as they search the country looking for the next brilliant invention, the next bold innovation, the next million-dollar idea. I haven’t
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FTCAdLaw: From Vermont to California and Oregon to Florida, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has wasted no time enforcing its beefed up Business Opportunity (“Biz-Opâ€) Rule. Last month, it filed its first six cases across the country (three are the author’s) to enforce the rule, which took effect last March. Some of the companies had
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Mary Meeker has published her annual Internet Trends slideshow. Lots of good insights and ideas in this year’s presentation below. 2012 KPCB Internet Trends Year-End Update from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
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The Moxie Awards are given out by the Electronic Retailing Association honoring the “best” infomercials of the year. The blog, Ridiculous Infomercial Review, has up a review of this year’s Moxie Awards. You can watch the entire thing below. All of the nominees are below. The bolded ones are the winners in their category. Marketer
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