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How to Use Philosophy as a Personal Operating System: From Seneca to Musashi

(Photo credit: Graphistolage) The following interview is a slightly modified version of an interview that just appeared on BoingBoing. It explores philosophical systems as personal operating systems (for better decision-making), the value of college and MBAs, and the bridge between business and military strategy, among other things. Avi first reached out to discuss my practical [...]
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Art Center Students Display at ICFF

At last week’s International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) in New York, 25 designers from Art Center were honored in a retrospective celebrating the completion of a series of five innovative interdisciplinary studios sponsored by Bernhardt Design.
Personally championed by Bernhardt Design President Jerry Helling and Environmental Design Chair David Mocarski, the course was created to educate [...]
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Bugaboo Donkey: A Convertible Stroller For Kids And Goods

The Bugaboo Donkey is a convertible stroller for kids and goods that can accommodate a growing family. In a matter of seconds, the Bugaboo Donkey converts from a full-sized mono to a full-sized duo stroller.

With its movable, modular parts and expanding frame, the Bugaboo Donkey can shape-shift into a variety of modes. It has settings [...]
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Famous Inventors – B Start

The famous inventors and inventions of history – listed wih patents and biographies.
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Bob DeMatteis

Inventors on all levels will benefit from the patenting and marketing tips provided in this article.
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Stephen Key talks about how he Licenses Invention Ideas (Podcast)

Stephen Key from www.inventright.com is an inventor who has successfully licensed his ideas for many years. In this podcast he explains how he started licensing ideas and the method he uses.
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Heineken Bottle Opener

Transcript by www.newsy.com BY MARIA LOPEZ ANCHOR MEGAN MURPHY You’re watching multisource tech video news analysis from Newsy. Call it a social-media connected bottle opener. Just pop open a beer with your Heineken church key- and check out what happens. “When a beer is opened, it directly creates a Facebook event at your location, inviting friends from your city.” A blogger for Crafted calls it brilliant. “It’s an undeniably amazing concept. Use a special Bluetooth-enabled bottle opener to open a Heineken, let your friends know that you just cracked open a cold one, and invite them to join you via Facebook — all in one fell swoop.” If enough friends show up at your “Heineken party”- you win a whole case of beer. But a blogger for Social Times wonders- is it really worth it? “Would you really want your Facebook page to be updated every time you cracked open a Heineken? And just because you felt the urge to drink a Heineken would you really want Facebook to automatically invite everyone in your area to come over to your house?” A writer for TIME agrees- sarcastically saying– “I know that every time I sit down to enjoy…a delicious craft IPA… I’m thinking, ‘Hey, I wish everyone I knew on Facebook could be here to watch me drink this thing.’ Thankfully (or unfortunately), this is all still just a concept at the moment.” A reporter for Media Week points out- Heineken is in the process of reviving its “innovation team”– trying to stay on the forefront of social media

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Which is the best open source project management software

The world is moving at a fast pace and the businesses needs to restructure themselves in order to move along with the pace. The widespread innovation in the field of information technology has greatly impacted the way the businesses are being done. Today, organizations are keen in undertaking various beneficial projects as a part of achieving the organizational level strategic goals. Now that it is difficult to carry on every such project under the early conventional methods, IT has blessed the Continue reading »

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Salventrex Business Plan

Salventrex Business Plan — Business Plan (audio script) — Powerful and simple can also be used to describe our business plan. The main elements are schedule, partners, marketing, and finance. The demo video is done. We plan to release an API to our partners in May. Beta release in June. Product release with revenue in September. Salventrex is developing several partnerships throughout the financial industry. Online broker dealers, data vendors, and development partners can integrate into the DOT Trader framework through our API and browser. Partners have access to the streaming data, database, and data filters. Modules are available for download by our clients. Partners receive all licensing royalties from their module. If desired, we can manage the monthly billing and licenses as a service. The Internet offers an unlimited variety of news and research. HTML, streaming video, and RSS feeds are a few examples of website views. Our marketing plan targets both retail and institutional clients from various perspectives. To achieve global mass market sales we will offer this powerful tool at a very low cost. A $50 monthly license fee fits all budgets. Our social media campaign includes Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Blogs. Salventrex has four Twitter accounts with an average of 70K followers per account. Our LinkedIn network has over 2500 financial industry professionals including 40 CEOs and 110 Vice Presidents. Our LinkedIn network represents all areas of the market

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The Random Show, Episode 14/15 – Bourbon, Photography, iPhone Apps, and Start-ups

Random Episode 15 from Glenn McElhose on Vimeo. In this long-overdue episode of Random, Kevin Rose and I discuss everything from start-ups and photography to naming products, iPhone apps, and survivalist training. Fueled by bourbon and pizza — cheat day, of course — we had a blast. Hope you enjoy! The mentioned links, assorted goodies, [...]
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