Eighteen months ago, I left a great job at a global financial institution to join a fintech startup just coming off its seed funding round. At the time, the company had just three employees who were designing our early products out of a small coworking space. Like many professionals taking a less-trodden path, I found […]
At Ohio’s Southern State Community College, the “big man on campus” isn’t a star athlete or a teenage genius—in fact, it isn’t even a human; it’s a robot. Specifically, it’s a Beam Telepresence robot—what amounts to a motorized, remotely controlled computer monitor that allows students, instructors or other faculty members to virtually attend or teach […]
A 2015 poll of 3,000 people found that 22% of American adults, or 45 million people, have offered some kind of good or service in the sharing or “gig” economy. These kinds of services — including ride-sharing, home-sharing and direct-selling as some of the more popular options — are growing in diversity and size across […]
More and more tech companies are using a portion of their profits to find the next promising innovation. Companies, especially in the tech and biotech industries, are progressively investing in startups, bringing them in-house to leverage greater control, probing for new ideas, innovations and the next strategic advantage. Venture capital (VC) is nothing new — […]
