El siguiente paso en tecnología wearable pasa por los tatuajes

Tras las pulseras de monitorización física, los relojes inteligentes y las gafas de realidad virtual, los tatuajes inteligentes serán el siguiente gran paso de la industria wearable.

Desde la aparición de los primeros dispositivos comerciales, la tecnología wearable ha experimentado un crecimiento consistente con el paso de los años. Solo en 2015, más de 20 millones de dispositivos wearables han sido vendidos alrededor del mundo, y las previsiones para los próximos años son excepcionales, según analistas de mercado como IDC.

How This Entrepreneur Fought Her Depression and Built a $300 Million Business

Annie Lawless overcame her depression by discovering her passion for fresh, raw, and organic juice. Suja, her non-GMO juices, are now sold in over 10,000 outlets.

Exactly five years ago, Annie Lawless was having a hard time getting out of bed. She was in law school and less than happy. Although she was doing great in all of her classes, she found herself in a deep state of depression she had never experienced before.

How Larry Page’s Obsessions Became Google’s Business

Three years ago, Charles Chase, an engineer who manages Lockheed Martin’s nuclear fusion program, was sitting on a white leather couch at Google’s Solve for X conference when a man he had never met knelt down to talk to him.

They spent 20 minutes discussing how much time, money and technology separated humanity from a sustainable fusion reaction — that is, how to produce clean energy by mimicking the sun’s power — before Mr. Chase thought to ask the man his name.

“I’m Larry Page,” the man said. He realized he had been talking to Google’s billionaire co-founder and chief executive.

Why Bigger Is Better When It Comes To Big Data

There are lots of people out there, who like me, believe that the big data party needs to stop and corporations need to get serious about big data with a bigger focus on ROI. Big data projects need to be held up to the same governance and be measured by the same criteria as other IT projects.

Just to be clear, I’m not bashing the technologies behind big data (both established and brand new) – I think they’re amazing. These technologies have been built to tackle the unique challenges that big data poses and can help organisations get more out of their big data today than ever before.

Uber CEO’s eight traits of great entrepreneurs

Find purpose, and close the gap between perception and reality, Travis Kalanick tells MIT students

Travis Kalanick, founder and CEO of Uber, counted “finding the magic” among eight traits of great entrepreneurs in a talk Dec. 2 in a packed Wong Auditorium.

5 French startups to look out for in 2016

We started the year with some research and the goal to come up with a list for each EU country with 5-10 of the most promising startups to look out for in 2016. After looking at Germany and Italy, we’re now continuing with France. The “Grande Nation” has a very vital startup ecosystem and with Paris one of the main three startup hubs in Europe (the two others are London and Berlin). Below you’ll find 5 of France’s most promising startups. All of them were founded within the last two years.

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies Breaks Ground To Make Elon Musk’s Hyperloop A Reality

 

Plans to construct the beginnings of Elon Musk’s Hyperloop are now underway in Quay Valley, California. Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) announced plans for a 5-mile test track late last year and is about to break ground on an initial framework for what HTT CEO Dirk Ahlborn hopes will become the U.S. transportation infrastructure of the future.

10 Behaviors You Never See in Successful People

When you spend decades working with executives and business leaders, you really can’t help but observe what works and doesn’t work over the long haul. One thing I’ve noticed, it’s not intrinsic characteristics or personal habits that determine whether you’re successful or not. It’s your behavior.

What do I mean by “behavior?” How you react under long-term stress. Whether you meet your commitments or not. How you interact with others. Your attitude toward customers. How hard you’re willing to work to do the job right. Whether you’re focused and disciplined or scattered and distracted. That sort of thing.

Uber’s standalone food delivery app ‘UberEATS’ to go live in 10 cities in March

Today a Wall Street Journal report detailed Uber’s plan to go live with its standalone food delivery app, UberEATS.

For just over a month now, Toronto has provided the proving ground for the service, but now UberEATS is set to go nationwide, well, in 10 cities anyway.

Currently, the UberEATS service is available within Uber’s primary app, but only for those requesting a ride, and a meal. It’s also only available during lunchtime.

In March the service is set to go live in Los Angeles, Dallas, Seattle, Chicago, New York, Austin, Washington D.C., Houston, San Francisco and Atlanta.

7 Lessons From Martin Luther King Jr. Every Entrepreneur Must Learn

Here are several important lessons for entrepreneurs, and businesspeople in general, that we can learn from the life and message of Dr. King.

On Monday, Americans will honor Dr. Martin Luther King, the de facto spokesman of the Civil Rights Movement, for his key role in directing our nation closer to its goal of equality for all. Besides the obvious lessons that we can learn from Dr. King with regard to standing up against injustice, there are several important lessons for entrepreneurs that we can learn from his life and message:

Social Impact B Corporations are on the Rise

New legislation is allowing companies to put social and environmental impact on par with profits.

A little provision was sneaked into the Italian parliament's big end-of-year budget package: it will now be possible for Italian companies, new or already existing, to incorporate as "Società Benefit," or Benefit Corporations. These companies will be officially allowed to put societal benefit on a par with profits.

The Fallacy of “Modern” Management When It Comes to Innovation Management

We’re in an amazing time. The rate of technological change and adoption gives consumers more choice and power than ever before.

For the consumer, this is awesome.

For big business, it’s a threat that must be navigated successfully. Doing so means a new kind innovation management, because the management most of us learned in school won’t quite do the trick.

What will be the top 10 tech trends for 2016? Check out GP Bullhound’s predictions

Always a good read, so we figured we’d flag: tech ‘dealmaker’ GP Bullhound has released its annual report predicting the top 10 technology trends for 2016. The London-born firm has made its research report available online for free, so download the PDF now and check it out.

The report will be presented at roundtables in January and February in Paris, San Francisco, Stockholm, Malmö, Berlin, Munich, London and Manchester. Or you can just read it this weekend.

These are the signs Apple is working on the next major computing platform

Apple may be the iPhone company today, but it'll eventually have to move beyond the smartphone to find the next major computing platform.

It's all but a given that Apple is developing a car (even Elon Musk called the project "an open secret" in the auto industry). But when it comes to a new kind of personal computing gadget, several recent acquisitions and hires hint that Apple is at least exploring augmented reality.

El trabajo flexible está en auge; el remoto, en pañales

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La demanda de trabajo flexible se estará incrementando de manera paulatina en todo el mundo en los próximos años; es por ello, que es importante que todo directivo se sincronice con sus empleados remotos, para asegurarse que éstos están desarrollando su potencial y productividad al máximo.

How A Creative Gum Entrepreneur Is Sticking It To The Industry Giants

Caron Proschan loves healthy living.  She also loves gum.  After finishing an energizing workout at the gym one day, she reached for her pack of gum and realized a huge disconnect.  With plenty of healthy, all-natural food and beverage options, why was her gum a troubling shade of alien blue and packed with un-pronounceable chemicals that would pollute her body?  This a-ha moment led to the launch of a dream and a company – Simply Gum.

6 consejos para emprendedores de Elon Musk

En el mundo de la tecnología hay algunos nombres que conoce todo el mundo como Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg… y hay otros que no tanto. Elon Musk es uno de estos últimos y, sin embargo, debería estar situado entre los genios tecnológicos más importantes de la actualidad ya que es el creador de avances tecnológicos tan importantes y variados como el sistema de pago PayPal, los automóviles Tesla, los cohetes espaciales reutilizables de SpaceX o los paneles solares de SolarCity.

10 Tips For Getting Your Colleagues To Work With You Better

One of the most important hiring criteria for many companies is the ability to work as a team player—yet, so many of us have colleagues who don’t play well with others.

“If you have one bad apple in the bunch, it can really hurt the morale and enthusiasm of an entire department,” says Andy Teach, author of From Graduation to Corporation, and host of the YouTube channel FromGradToCorp. “A department, or company, that works well together, has the most success together. When you enjoy working with your colleagues and look forward to interacting with them, everyone benefits.”

5 tendencias tecnológicas para 2016

Por Pablo Bejerano

Analizamos cuáles pueden ser algunas de las tendencias tecnologías para 2016, como la realidad virtual o la consolidación de los wearables.

Llega un nuevo año y con él viene ese momento en que alzamos la mirada hacia el horizonte, tratando de discernir qué nos depararán los próximos 12 meses. Se podría hacer en cualquier otro momento, pero lo cierto es que las fechas invitan a pensar en un cierre de ciclo, lo que inevitablemente lleva a la apertura de uno nuevo. Este nuevo ciclo estará marcado por algunas tendencias tecnológicas que se desplegarán a lo largo del año.

How the internet of things is already changing the way we cook and eat

In 2016, dozens of companies have developed products that are changed the way we cook, store and eat food.

The evolution of how we eat has brought us to a place where there are fewer limits to what is prepared in your home (or delivered to it). We've come a long way from the time when health or gourmet food was not available to most of society. Now with the help of the "Internet of Things," going healthy is just a click or tap away.

The 10 best TED talks of 2015

By Justin Bariso @JustinJBariso

If you follow my column, you know I'm a huge fan of TED. Billed as the nonprofit organization devoted to "ideas worth spreading," TED's short presentations can teach you a lot about the current state of business and technology and where we're heading as a society. They also inspire continued learning and self-improvement.

Without further ado, here are my picks for the top 10 TED Talks of 2015, separated by category.

1. Regina Hartley: Why the Best Hire May Not Have the Perfect Résumé

When given a choice between a job applicant with a perfect resume and another with one that raises some questions, whom will you pick for an interview? In this insightful talk, Regina Hartley defends the workers she identifies as "scrappers."

8 predicciones y tendencias para startups y emprendedores en 2016

El mundo emprendedor y las startups digitales están viviendo una eclosión en el todo mundo. Durante el año 2015 han pasado muchas cosas en el mercado. Junto con la aparición de nuevas compañías se han producido sonoras compras, ventas, fusiones y adquisiciones pero ¿Cual serán las predicciones y tendencias que viviremos en el mundo emprendedor en 2016?

Los 15 fracasos en tecnología 2015

Los monopatines flotadores, comúnmente conocidos como “hoverboards”, fueron uno de los productos tecnológicos de los que más se habló este año… pero casi por todas las razones equivocadas.1. La explosión de los ‘hoverboards’

Pitching Your Startup to the Media

At Chop Dawg over the past several years, we have had the great fortune to see our clients successfully featured on some of the top digital and print publications on the planet. It’s a truly humbling experience, and above all, it says a lot about the type of people we have the privilege to work with and the products that they have been able to visualize and create.

The New Age Economy

In the past years, the way we dress ourselves, the way we listen to music, the way we watch TV, the way we date, the day we transport… it all has changed a lot. And those changes didn’t happened by a matter of coincidence or just fate. Behind each of these new behaviors there is a strong, innovative and yet a little abstract background: the sharing economy.

How to deliver feedback without arguments

Feedback is one of the most essential skills in life. It is not realistic to expect that everything will always go as planned for you. If you want to correct the errors, or make sure that things improve, you must be able to deliver feedback effectively. When you deliver feedback you are usually commenting on somebody else’s performance. This requires a degree of emotional maturity and sensitivity to ensure that the recipient does not take it personal. After all, when you deliver feedback effectively, you are aiming to help both parties – you get the result that you are looking for and the other person gets some valuable information which helps them improve their performance in future. It really is a win-win situation; if you deliver feedback in the appropriate manner.

Four tips for growing an international business online

New research from PayPal has revealed that the UK is the third most popular destination for online shoppers abroad, with more than 86 million of them buying from the UK in the last year. PayPal’s UK Managing Director, Cameron McLean, spoke to British business Chain Reaction Cycles to find out how the business has grown from a small local shop to one of the world’s largest online cycle stores catering to cycling enthusiasts in over 100 countries...

5 Productivity Tips I Learned From Uber and Other Silicon Valley Superstars

I once asked Mitch Kapor how he stayed productive. The tech veteran smiled and showed me an elaborate Microsoft Word document he used to keep track of all the people, places and projects in his life with keyboard shortcuts to move information around, so he’d know what to do when. Seeing him in action with it was a marvel, because for him, that document was clearly the best tool for the job.

If There Wasn’t a Way Before, It Doesn’t Mean There Never Will Be

"Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, & as a result, they get better answers." ~Tony Robbins

"To succeed, one must be creative and persistent." ~John H. Johnson

When we try to make improvements or implement a new process there will be times where we discover that there are certain obstacles that legitimately prohibit us from moving forward. In many instances that can mistakenly create a perpetual roadblock where we don’t reassess the obstacles in the future. Instead we say, “Well we tried that before and it won’t work.” But in this ever changing business environment that is often not the case. I am positive that there have been a number of changes in your organization, and there’s a good chance that some of those affect those obstacles you ran into before.

Richard Branson: How to start a business with no experience

Is it a requirement to have experience of the industry in which you’re setting up a business? Not at all, argues Richard Branson, just create something different…

"Think about changes you’d like to see as a customer – even if you’ve just noticed little details that need tweaking. Those little changes may add up to a big idea that leads to a new and truly disruptive product or service. This is essentially how we, at Virgin, launched our first successful businesses," explains the Virgin Group founder in a recent blog post.

"We were very sensible when we started out, setting up connected enterprises like most other companies do. We went from running a small record shop to starting up a record label with recording studios and then added our large music megastores to our portfolio".

4 Deadly Pitfalls All Start-ups Must Avoid

Starting a new business in any field is never likely to be a walk in the park. Whatever your specific goals are there will be any number of ways in which your pursuit of success could be scuppered.

But there are also some predictable problems that all start-up operators should be looking to avoid if at all possible.

Here’s a look at 4 such pitfalls well worth having in mind if you’re embarking on a start-up journey of your own.

1. Failing to properly prepare

Quite what amounts to “properly” preparing to start a business is always going to be a matter of opinion and individual judgement but the list of companies that fail because their founders didn’t do their homework is endless.

11 Things Ultra-Productive People Do Differently

When it comes to productivity, we all face the same challenge—there are only 24 hours in a day.

Yet some people seem to have twice the time; they have an uncanny ability to get things done. Even when juggling multiple projects, they reach their goals without fail.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can’t afford to lose." –Thomas Edison

We all want to get more out of life. There's arguably no better way to accomplish this than by finding ways to do more with the precious time you've been given.

It feels incredible when you leave the office after an ultra-productive day. It's a workplace high that's hard to beat.

With the right approach, you can make this happen every day.

GEM - Global Entrepreneurship Monitor

El Global Entrerepeneurship Monitor (GEM) es una investigación anual que estudia la actividad las aspiraciones y actitudes de los emprendedores en más de 70 países.
El GEM es el estudio más grande sobre actividad emprendedora realizado a nivel mundial. Su objetivo es analizar la relación existente entre la actividad emprendedora y el crecimiento económico en la mayor cantidad de países posibles.

Empezó en 1999 como una asociación entre la London Business School y Babson College. El primer estudio abarcó 10 países, desde entonces más de 100 Equpos investigadores de todos los rincones del mundo han participado en el proyecto, que sigue creciendo cada año. El proyecto cuenta con un presupuesto global estimada de casi USD $ 9 millones. Participan del estudio alrededor de 500 especialistas.


GEM explora el papel de la actividad emprendedora en el crecimiento económico nacional. Para hacerlo analiza características nacionales y las características asociadas con la actividad emprendedora. Los datos recogidos son trabajados por un equipo central de expertos que garantiza su calidad y facilita las comparaciones entre países.

Mark Suster Speech at NYU

Un emprendedor puede ser empresario; ¿y viceversa?

La motivación, el capital social y la capacidad de buscar oportunidades distinguen a los innovadores que pueden ser independientes o estar al frente de una compañía. La clave para encarar proyectos sigue siendo la pasión.

Un emprendedor, con el tiempo, puede llegar a ser un empresario exitoso. Y un empresario, ¿puede perdurar como emprendedor durante su carrera? Puede que ambos términos sean un simple eufemismo, pero en el fondo encierra una característica innata del que encara permanentemente nuevos desafíos: su pasión. Eso, en muchos casos, lleva a que el capital -necesario, por cierto- pase a un segundo plano. Un emprendedor es un espejo para el trabajador, que busca captar el espíritu muchas veces idealista y soñador de esas personas que inician un negocio, con la idea que perdure en el tiempo y se convierta en una verdadera escuela de negocios, más allá de la rentabilidad.