About a month ago, my wife and I became parents for the very first time. I had a choice to attend Baylor University or other colleges. I had a choice to attend law school or say no. I chose law school (but I chose out of fear and attended by default because I didn’t know what else to do with my life). In late January 2004, after a 20+ hour flight and traveling almost halfway around the world, I landed on a tiny island in the North Pacific Ocean. MORE

By all measures, it is an amazing time to be a CPG entrepreneur. Just look at the Natural Products Expo West, considered one of the most important natural food and beverage trade shows in the world. When I first attended in 2004, it was one hall of the Anaheim Convention Center. MORE

He was the only older non-student at the time making fund-raising calls for the annual fund I managed while I attended SJSU. Over time his voice betrayed confusion and instability, like spider cracks in a windshield, but I could never discern what if anything was wrong. MORE

But that uncivil and judgmental stuff that came spewing out on Twitter and Instagram is there for all time. Then think about how you would like a potential employer to drag up something you said on Facebook in 2004 and hold you accountable for it. MORE

Mobile phone applications that offer organizations the capability for online learning, enhance productivity and provide effective employee management and development are becoming a chief technology trend in Human Resources. MORE

I haven’t attended Y Combinator, but I suspect that this concept is repeatedly drilled into the minds of the budding entrepreneurs during the program. According to Graham in his 2004 essay ‘How to Make Wealth’, it’s not necessarily easy to get this right: “When you’re starting a business, it’s easy to slide into thinking that customers want what you do.” Selling a product that people only want but don’t care about can turn you into a walking dead company. MORE

GM wanted to understand the effective Toyota Production System, and Toyota wanted to see how that system could work with U.S. For example, the Corolla was ranked “Best Compact Car in North America” in 1999, 2001, 2002, 2004, and 2006. MORE

After 2,022 market transactions, Columbia University Professor Levine and his colleagues observed that some of the clusters only made a few pricing errors and traded accurately about 65 percent of the time. However, other clusters regularly overpriced, created pricing bubbles and traded accurately only 40 percent of the time. Too many approaches and a group will lose productivity as they spend time understanding another team member’s point of view. MORE

This research provides Simpplr, as a solution provider, a deeper understanding of the most pressing issues and challenges surrounding intranets, so we can better focus our product roadmap and service offerings on priorities that matter. Written by: Simpplr Research. MORE