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permalink Slate Magazine’s ranking of the top 50 companies making the most out of Facebook.

Slate Magazine’s ranking of the top 50 companies making the most out of Facebook.

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The Power of the Pentatonic Scale

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“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change” Charles Darwin

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Love this idea! RT @zippgo @MelodyMcC Instead of cardboard boxes rent ZippGo reusable moving boxes. We deliver: http://bit.ly/2mcXYH

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There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
— Peter Drucker
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Entrepreneur monkey

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Research conducted by both Catalyst and McKinsey & Company demonstrates that companies with significant numbers of women in management have a much higher return on investment. In addition, a recent study from London Business School shows that when work teams are split 50-50 between men and women, productivity goes up. Gender balance, the research posits, counters groupthink — the tendency of homogenous groups to staunchly defend wrong-headed ideas because everyone in the group thinks the same way.

My favorite study, published last October by CERAM Business School, showed that firms in the CAC 40 (the French equivalent of the Dow Jones Industrial Average) with a high ratio of women in top management showed better resistance to the financial crisis. The fewer female managers a company has, the greater drop in its share price since January 2008.

The facts couldn’t be clearer: smart women equal stronger companies.

As we begin to emerge from the global recession, far-seeing firms are building bench strength through programs that provide traction for both their high-performing and high-potential women.

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an AIM conversation about entrepreneurship

Me: who even does that

Rod: successful entrepreneurs. they can do anything they want

Me: i’d go back to aol dial-up if i were them. just because i could.

Rod: hell…you know what. I’ll go ahead and mail you my response. like with the postal service.

Me: RTMO. snail mail. actually, please send me your pitch via 8 track.

Rod: i went ahead and did these projections using marbles. you can see that 5 is greater than 3. so? done.

Me: point made. You don’t get it? well then maybe you should build a multi-million dollar company and sell it to google. then it might make sense to you. where’s my meatloaf.

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Made a I just made a hip hop ElfYourself w/ @alexiatsotsis @caro @mbaratz & @megan.

permalink Thanks for the email Google Voice, quite helpful. I’ll call Rick/Rita back at that 6 number phone number and let them know if I have any Levin.

Thanks for the email Google Voice, quite helpful. I’ll call Rick/Rita back at that 6 number phone number and let them know if I have any Levin.

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I’ve been listening to This Week in Startups lately, Jason Calacanis’ podcast. It’s actually really interesting and worth checking out.

http://su.pr/1gJ4qu (link will launch iTunes)

permalink I wish we weren’t posing in front of this wall, but I like that you can tell we’re having a good time.

I wish we weren’t posing in front of this wall, but I like that you can tell we’re having a good time.

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From same man friend: “Why so many drawers and so little food. I’m on a mission for a tiny bottle of champagne and there’s nothing here. I hate this. Oh, found one. The top is off the jig is up. POP. Great, there’s champagne everywhere. UGH.”