Monthly Archives: March 2016

ClassPass, the hot New York startup that gives you access to a smorgasbord of fitness classes for a monthly fee, has snagged Amazon’s Sam Hall to be its Chief Product and Technology Officer Read More

Tease new products to your fans.

Some brands still worry that social use can be self-destructive and lead to a host of problems with managing user engagement. But others are jumping in, because marketers can make a serious impact with product launches using apps like Snapchat. Read More

We hear a lot about “10,000 hours” being what it takes to become an expert. But the majority of people totally misunderstand the idea.

So I decided to go to the source and talk to the guy who actually created the theory. Read More

It’s officially tax season—that time of year when most people aim to sail through the onerous process as quickly as possible.

But there’s a major downside to rushing. Read More

In 2004, Leeward Bean was happily retired. He’d helped build a scientific instrument company, Ocean Optics, and sold it for $50 million. But when a pair of former employees, Christina Bacon and Ron DeFrece, pitched him on an online novelty shop called Uniquely Geek, the science nerd couldn’t resist: He agreed to give them seed funding and advice. And soon enough, this little side project would spawn an entire new business for him. It all began when he stopped into Uniquely Geek’s south-Florida office one day; the staff had just written 100 nerdy slogans for T-shirts, and wanted to print them all. Read More

Apple founder Steve Wozniak loves the Amazon Echo, a smart speaker that users can talk to.

In an interview with CNBC that aired Friday, he said he thought it was “the next big platform for the near future.” Read More