Data, data, data. It’s said to be the new currency. What is it telling you? How are you tracking it? Does it matter?
Bacteria may light up the future. Glowee, a start-up company based in Paris, France, is developing bioluminescent lights to illuminate shop fronts and street signs.
The most wonderful time of the year is just about here, whether we’re ready or not — but what the Earth is definitely not ready for is the impact the holiday season has on it.
“Safety is the biggest barrier for people who don't cycle,” British entrepreneur Emily Brooke tells Forbes. “You could be lit up like a Christmas tree, but if you’re caught in a vehicle's blind spot you can't be seen.”
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27 Female ‘FamTech’ Founders Come Together To Care For Families During The COVID-19 Crisis
Last year, I joined an incredible collaborative of female founders all changing the ways we support families. Almost the entire group is mothers or caregivers, most of us started our businesses, non-profits, and projects because of the lack of support in our own experiences
Female Founder Provides Small Loans To Help College Students Avoid Dropping Out
When I interviewed Jeannie Ringo, founder and CEO at Funding U, I remember what Larry Keeley, president and co-founder at Dublin Group, and managing director at Deloitte Consulting told me — men and women innovate differently.
Magnus Carlsen Interview: The World Chess Champion Prepares To Take On Fabiano Caruana
The Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen is widely considered the greatest player the game has ever seen. The key to his success? Not overthinking, he tells Giles Whittell
The Entrepreneur Stopping Food Waste
The BBC's weekly The Boss series profiles different business leaders from around the world. This week we speak to Mette Lykke, co-founder of fitness tracker Endomondo, and chief executive of food waste app, Too Good To Go.
Where Some See Disabilities, Alivia Sees Art for Fashion
The brand's cofounder coaxes and nurtures creativity by employing artists with autism to create vibrant art printed on the brands garments.
Buy Me Once: The Online Shop For Stuff That Lasts, From T-shirts To Tweezers
Whether you’re talking about appliances, cars or clothing, it’s true: they don’t make ’em like they used to. Here’s an easy way around a persistent problem
Undiscovered Features
How I Used Squid To Produce Light
Rey ultimately hopes to be able to bring light to the one in six people on Earth without electricity.
Do You Value Women’s Work Yet?
In the three weeks since people across the United States have been relegated to self-isolation in the interest of public safety, many Americans are discovering, for the first time, that women do a lot of work. And that women’s work is really hard.
Revealed: Food waste guru lauded by Meghan Markle in her guest-edited British Vogue magazine is a former boss of ‘loan shark’ firm Wonga
A businesswoman lauded by the Duchess of Sussex in Vogue magazine is a former boss of Wonga, the 'legal loan shark' firm vilified for preying on desperate borrowers, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
An At-Home HPV Test Could Be Game-Changing—but Proceed With Caution
We can order cabs using an app, pay for coffee with a tap of our phone, and talk to friends across the globe as if they were right in front of us. So why is addressing something as important as reproductive health still so damn inconvenient?
Partake Foods building a more inclusive food system
The quality assurance specialist at Partake Foods is a six-year-old named Vivienne. She is the daughter of Denise Woodard...
The Entrepreneur Lesson: ‘don’t Be Endlessly Concerned With Small Things’
The following applies to entrepreneurship: people learn by doing. By making mistakes or doing things differently next time, a company can flourish. In Lesson learned, entrepreneurs share how they themselves have become wise through damage and shame. This week: Founder of iLost Hanneke Stegweg keeps her goals in focus by dancing away from everything.
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