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Backstage Capital Is Funding Startups by Underestimated Entrepreneurs

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Dickson had started Flat Out with $100,000 from her personal network, but realized she would need more money to produce vending machines that could take credit cards, track inventory, send emails and engage with customers via artificial intelligence and facial recognition.

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How to Name Your Business

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An internal team was assigned to meet once a month to brainstorm and examine potential names. We get lots of engagement with Facebook campaigns and click-throughs on Google AdWords as well as email promotions. This article was published in May 2013 and has been updated. We needed to succeed and fail on our own identity.

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Why Traveling the World Is the Best Investment in Yourself

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This is what we do: My husband monitors travel sites and email subscription services for super-cheap flights or error fares. And it makes sense: When you’re away from your daily to-do list and you know an auto-response is catching your emails, your perspective changes. Sometimes one of us travels for work and the other tags along.

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Administrative/Clerical: Will Technology Replace the Administrative Assistant?

Office Dynamics

The resulting shift from conversation to email, text, and shared applications has led to widespread speculation of an imminent technological takeover. In August 2013, Japan sent a 13-inch-high android called Kirobo to the International Space Station, where it uttered the first robotic words ever spoken in space.

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Christoph Fleischmann of Arthur | Bridging the Hybrid Work Divide with Mixed Reality

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Since joining the industry in 2013, Christoph Fleischmann has made a tremendous impact in the world of AR, VR and ML. Today, my guest, Christoph Fleischmann of Arthur Technologies, has joined the Virtual Reality World in 2013. Guest Episode Video Transcript. Christoph Arthur. CEO and Founder of Arthur. About this episode.

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Shorter, More Effective Meetings

Office Dynamics

Just ask each selected, vital participant to email you his or her top three input items and questions on the meeting objective. Summarize their responses, draw conclusions, make a decision or decision recommendation and email it back to all the vital participants for final input and agreement. Copyright 2013 WorkLifeBalance.com, Inc.

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Shorter, More Effective Meetings

Office Dynamics

Just ask each selected, vital participant to email you his or her top three input items and questions on the meeting objective. Summarize their responses, draw conclusions, make a decision or decision recommendation and email it back to all the vital participants for final input and agreement. Copyright 2013 WorkLifeBalance.com, Inc.

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