Thinker-Tinker is designing toys for the new Trolls franchise and its Octobo product was named one of the Top 10 new gadgets at the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show. Back in 2016, Yuting Su was a University of Southern California grad student tinkering away on a children’s toy prototype. She hoped that combining digital and physical …
Rajiv Gandhi argues that there’s a fine art to building effective teams and operations takes a combination of servant leadership, motivation, clear evaluation standards, and rebelling against negative office politics. Gandhi is a Product Manager with American Express and has experience building products and teams that have served 80 million users in 300 companies.
Steven Levy has been writing about technology for years. He’s interviewed Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs. He chronicled the rise of personal computers, online search, and cryptocurrency. However, he still remembers an August 2015 news alert that stopped him in his tracks — 1 billion people had logged into Facebook on the same …
How did Yuting make such a drastic leap in four short years? She attributes part of her success to being part of the Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, powered by Techstars in 2018. There she worked from Comcast’s global headquarters in Philadelphia, refined her business model and made valuable connections in the tech and entertainment industries.
What does it take to create healthy workplaces where employees are engaged, empowered, and secure? Two popular authors argue that a combination of implicit bias and antiquated leadership practices are hampering the modern workplace, and talk about how you to recognize these behaviors to help succeed in the workplace. Laura Huang is a professor at …
If you’re looking for startup capital, consider applying for a federal grant. Each year, agencies like NASA, the Department of Defense, and the Department of Agriculture are required to invest millions in small businesses — and they run highly competitive grant programs to pick the most promising ideas.
In his world, there’s no room for small talk and attention spans are short. If a pitch hits the right notes, it could make a filmmaker’s career and bring a movie to the masses. If it misses the mark, a potentially great movie could be shelved forever.
