A new book persuasively argues that extraordinary intelligence and talent are not genetic gifts. David Shenk's new book, "The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything You've Been Told About Genetics, Talent, and IQ Is Wrong," is 300 pages long, and more than half of those pages are endnotes. You need to offer up a lot of evidence when your goal is to overturn a concept as commonplace as the idea that
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"The Genius in All of Us"
Posted by admin 19 hours ago (http://www.salon.com)
For years now I’ve read startup and VC blogs just like many of you. I read a ton of posts about what my business plans should say or how to do financial projections. But in the end, that stuff was always painful for me. I’ve always been more of a doer than a planner, and more of a boostrapper than a fundraiser. The thought of wasting valuable business time working on a business plan made me want
Smart people can rationalize anything
Posted by admin 5 days ago (http://habitatchronicles.com)
One of the things we were able to do at Electric Communities was to attract one of the highest density collections of scary-smart people I’ve ever seen gathered in one place before. There are a lot of nice things about working with smart people. For one thing, they’re not stupid. Working with stupid people just sucks. Smart people are good if you need to do a lot of really hard things, and we did
Ask the attorney: What the heck is Class F stock?
Posted by admin 6 days ago (http://entrepreneur.venturebeat.com)
My buddy and I are launching a new venture, and we’ve read some articles on the web about incorporating in Delaware and other things we need to do from the legal side. One issue that came up that we don’t understand is Class F stock, which we read about on a couple of blogs. What is Class F stock and do you think we should be utilizing it?
Taking on the Times, Google, and, in a sense, his own children, Rupert Murdoch is not going gently into the night.On Saturday, January 9, Rupert Murdoch was on his Boeing 737 returning to New York from a business trip to Los Angeles when he learned that the New York Times had just posted a long profile of Fox News chief Roger Ailes on its website, one that he knew was going to cause a giant heada
MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition
Posted by admin 6 days ago (http://www.mit100k.org)
The MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition is comprised of two rounds of submission. The first submission is open to anyone meeting our eligibility criteria and consists of an Executive Summary and PowerPoint pitch deck. After a round of judging by industry experts, five semi-finalists in each track will move on to a second round. Additionally, the five runners up not selected as the semi-finalis
What Makes the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition Special
Posted by admin 6 days ago (http://venturefizz.com)
This past weekend, the lead organizers of the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition had their annual off-site meeting to discuss our yearly objectives and mission statement. As I sat around the table with some of the most intelligent and dedicated individuals I have ever worked with, it dawned on me that I haven’t taken the time to reflect on something that we as organizers sometimes take for gr
PR for Startup
Posted by admin 6 days ago (http://www.tonywright.com)
When you research this topic, you’ll see lots of technical and how-to articles that talk about how to build relationships with writers, how to use services like PRweb, how to format a press release, and more. In a lot of ways, this reminds me of SEO (search engine optimization). Research SEO and you’ll find a bunch of articles about page markup, link sculpting, meta descriptions, and all sorts of