Technology is a Drug. Who Got You Addicted?
Guest Speaker: Nir Eyal "Who’s Really Addicting You to Technology?" “Nearly everyone I know is addicted in some measure to the Internet,” wrote Tony Schwartz in a recent essay in The New York Times. It’s a common complaint these days. A steady
You Don’t Need A Billion Dollar Idea—Just Do It
Guest Speaker: Bryce Roberts "You Don’t Need a Master Plan — You Just Need to Start" Startups are overdosing on ambition these days Everything has to be a billion dollar idea that changes the world or it isn’t worth doing. These days, even a billion doesn’t seem
Is Technology Ruining Your Relationships?
Guest Speaker: Bryan Kramer "How Technology Affects Human Relationships" If you’re anything like me, you reach for your smartphone as soon as you wake up to check email and respond to texts. The rest of the day, you’re constantly on a tablet,
A Better and Brighter Future Does Not Depend on Our Technology
Guest Speaker: Bryan Kramer "Why we can’t rely on technology for a better future" A tech revolution is coming. Our future depends on how we decide to use it. Technology has never before played such a large role in our lives. So far, that
It’s a Battle, The World’s Largest Companies are Aggregators
Guest Speaker: Tikue Anazodo "How ‘Aggregation Theory’ is Fueling a Multi-Trillion Dollar Technology Revolution" The Great Commoditization of Distribution Tom Goodwin made the following observation in his March 2015 article in Techcrunch titled The Battle Is For The Customer Interface and it went really viral on
Be like Michael Jordan, Get your Trademark early!
Guest Speaker: Freeman Harris "When should a startup register their trademark?" Setting up a new company is hectic. There’s a large amount of things that need to be created, organised or started. If you’re new to the experience of running a startup,
Reasons Why The 9 to 5 Daily Grind is Dying
Guest Speaker: Tom Wishart "The Death of the 9 to 5" It’s 9.15 on Monday morning. You’ve been involved in the new working week for a whole fifteen minutes and already life seems that little bit greyer. By 9.45 you’re on social
6 Simple Steps Creating Great Business Ideas
Guest Speaker: Alan Hall "How to Create a Winning Business Idea--in Six Easy Steps" I often meet business founders whose minds are overflowing with brilliant business ideas for new products. They seem to develop terrific new concepts every single day of
Wow! How About Reading Through a Closed Book?
Guest Speaker: Stephanie Mlot "MIT Imaging Tech Can Read Closed Book" MIT and Georgia Tech researchers are developing a system that can read closed books. MIT researchers are developing a camera system that can read closed books. A prototype was recently able to correctly
Beware! The Dark and Crucial World of Content Marketing
Guest Speaker: Mike Li "The Dark Side of Content Marketing" What is there to know about content marketing? Well, one thing is for sure; content is king. A blood-thirsty king. Now feed him "Create awesome content." "Deliver value." "WOW your users." "Master the