As Reuters reports, communist Cuba’s newfound interest in foreign capital does have its limits. French doctor Philippe Pouletty is working to develop a therapeutic vaccine to treat chronic Hepatitis B. But when he pitched the idea of floating a company on the pan-European stock market Euronext, with the Cuban state as a shareholder, that was clearly too much. Pouletty’s…
As Reuters reports, Amazon.com is in a race against Google to store data on human DNA. Inherently, academic institutions and healthcare companies find themselves having to pick sides between their cloud computing offerings – Google Genomics and Amazon Web Services. A number of clients view Google and Amazon as doing a better job at storing…
Until now, hyper-intelligent quantum computers were destined to stay cocooned in the laboratories in which they are patented. But after decades of languishing in the lab, quantum computers are now attracting commercial interest. What will allow these super computers to be commercialized by companies such as Google, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Microsoft? A certain principle that will…
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Founder of multiple of startups, and nurturer to many more, Bill Gross was curious why some startups succeeded and others failed. So he gathered data and researched hundreds of organizations, including his own, and ranked each using five key factors. Gross found one key factor that stood out from all the other reasons why startups succeed. His finding surprised us all,…
Communication. We talk about how important it is. How critical it is to have in any endeavor in order to move the ball down the field and, ultimately, for success. Yet in almost every instance where there is failure, we can almost always trace back to one of the root-causes for the failure being a…
Amazon-owned shoe retailer that’s part of the Zappos family, Holocracy, is the largest and most famous business to embrace the philosophy that replaces the traditional top-down hierarchy with an autonomous alternative. But the transition over the last year and a half has by not been all smooth sailing. In fact, this philosophy has prompted more than 200 Holocracy employees…
