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☆ Outdoor Voices founder is mocking the athletic brand on social media after her contentious ouster 3 years ago
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Jennifer Ortakales Dawkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Haney founded the activewear brand in 2013 and stepped down as CEO in 2020. She founded Outdoor Voices in 2013 as a direct-to-consumer activewear apparel brand catering to everyday women who participate in recreational activities like jogging and leisure hikes. Outdoor Voices had raised $64 million in funding, reached a $110 million valuation, and gained a cult following of millennial women. Tyler Haney founded the activewear brand Outdoor Voices in 2013. Haney and Outdoor Voices did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

Persons: Tyler Haney, Haney, —, Guy Raz, Mickey Drexler, Rick Kern, Emily Weiss, Away's Jen Rubio, Gabrielle Conforti Organizations: Service, OG, Outdoor, Getty, New York Times, Outdoor Voices, Urban Outfitters, TechCrunch

☆ Why doctors used to think drilling into people's skulls could treat mental illness
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-17 | by ( Carla Delgado | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Lobotomies used to be a horrific way that doctors tried to treat patients with mental illness. Different doctors performed lobotomies differently, but one of the primary approaches was to drill a hole in the side of the skull to access the brain. Doctors thought that severing certain connections in the brain could help treat mental illness. By the 1950s, lobotomies were on their way out, but not before doctors performed over 40,000 of them in the US alone. A drill, shown on the right, is cranked by hand to help doctors access the patient's brain.

Persons: Lobotomies, —, Howard Dully, Dully, Walter Freeman —, National Library of Medicine Lobotomies, lobotomies, Egas Moniz, Mical Raz, Raz, Freeman Organizations: Service, NPR, National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, Singapore Medical, University of Rochester, Library of Medicine Locations: Portugal, Singapore, Europe, North America, California, Tennessee, Colorado, Delaware

☆ Israeli protesters paint 'red line' leading to Supreme Court after Netanyahu spurns compromise
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-16 | by ( Maayan Lubell | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

JERUSALEM, March 16 (Reuters) - Jerusalem woke on Thursday to the sight of a long red line painted by protesters along roads leading to Israel's Supreme Court, hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected a compromise deal for his government's planned judicial overhaul. Drone footage showed a small group of people in protective suits spraying a wide red stripe along mostly deserted roads leading from a police and magistrate's compound up to the Supreme Court in central Jerusalem. A slogan stencilled in red onto the road in Hebrew, Arabic and English by the side of the road read: "Drawing the line." The hard-right government's drive to limit Supreme Court powers while increasing its own power in selecting judges has caused alarm in Israel and abroad about the country's democratic checks and balances as protests have swelled for weeks. His nationalist-religious coalition says the Supreme Court too often overreaches and intervenes in political matters it has no mandate to rule on.

I read the book "Never Split the Difference" which felt like a detailed negotiation course. Chris Voss, the author of "Never Split the Difference," demonstrating a negotiation technique in his MasterClass. "No" is how negotiations start, not end. It was eye-opening to read that the word "no" is the start of a negotiation, not the end of it. Managing your tone of voice is one of the first things mentioned in the book.

☆ How streetwear brand Unless Collective aims to accomplish what brands like Nike and Adidas haven't — fully sustainable sneakers and apparel
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-03 | by ( Matthew Kish | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Unless Collective T-shirts Courtesy Unless CollectiveNo "forever materials"While companies like Adidas and Nike have pledged to use more recycled polyester this decade, Liedtke said Unless Collective doesn't use any polyester in its products. At end-of-life, a tag sewn inside each Unless Collective product gives directions on how to return it. The company's working with an industrial composter in California that can make "nutrient rich soil" out of the company's old hoodies and T-shirts. Like other plant-based apparel companies, Unless Collective has had to completely rethink its supply chain. Instead of relying on factories in Asia, Unless Collective manufactures its jackets in Portugal, T-shirts in the Carolinas in the US, and hoodies in Los Angeles.

☆ Israeli journalists experience chilly reception at Qatar World Cup
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-02 | by ( Hadas Gold | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

Former Israeli football star, and now a commentator Eil Ohana posted a video showing a Qatari police officer driving him in a golf cart. Videos have gone viral in Israel and the Arab world showing football fans yelling at Israeli reporters, refusing to speak to them because of where they are from. Canadian pop star Justin Bieber launched clean water company Generosity at Qatar’s World Cup, to provide premium alkaline water in refillable fountains across the globe. The pitch invader who waved a rainbow flag on the field during Portugal’s World Cup match with Uruguay on Monday said FIFA president Gianni Infantino came to the Qatari police station to free him in order to “avoid more controversy.”Thursday’s Group E FIFA World Cup match between Costa Rica and Germany saw an all-women refereeing team for the first time in men’s World Cup history. Stephanie Frappart, from France, led the refereeing team, making her the first woman to referee a men’s World Cup match.

☆ Adidas' former brand president says streetwear needs a 'Tesla-like moment' to move the industry beyond plastics. His startup now aims to accomplish what brands like Nike haven't.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( Matthew Kish | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Liedtke recently cofounded Unless Collective, which makes plant-based streetwear. At end-of-life, a tag sewn inside each Unless Collective product gives directions on how to return it. The company's working with an industrial composter in California that can make "nutrient rich soil" out of the company's old hoodies and T-shirts. Instead of relying on factories in Asia, Unless Collective manufactures its jackets in Portugal, T-shirts in the Carolinas in the US, and hoodies in Los Angeles. In some cases Unless Collective is working to get a "minimum viable product" on the market in order to keep the company moving forward.

☆ I binge-listened to tech podcasts for a week, and what I learned about Silicon Valley is kind of scary
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-04 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +19 min

2: The hosts don't know what they don't knowThe problem is, VC podcasts don't stick to the core issues of venture capital. 3: The hosts want us to believe what they don't knowThere's a shocking amount of this kind of drivel on the tech podcasts. This is what a good tech podcast should do: Use access to the best and most successful investors and innovators to illuminate the way Silicon Valley works. But that's not what matters in the world of tech podcasts. But after 40 hours of listening to tech podcasts, I feel kind of bad about it.

☆ 'Eat the Rich: The GameStop Saga' review: Netflix presents the David-vs.-Goliath battle that roiled Wall Street
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( Review Brian Lowry | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —The best part of “Eat the Rich: The GameStop Saga” is that it manages to tell a complicated financial story with a fair amount of humor and context, in a way that doesn’t demonize the various parties, which doesn’t spare them from various levels of mockery. The result is a Netflix docuseries that, despite a few excesses, exposes the more ridiculous aspects of stock trading and where all that paper can come to resemble a house of cards. Video Ad Feedback 04:37 - Source: CNN These GameStop traders struck gold. Perhaps the most salient impression watching “Eat the Rich,” though, is recalling just how big the story was – and how quickly media and markets move on, without addressing the vulnerabilities that allowed the GameStop saga to unfold. “Eat the Rich: The GameStop Saga” premieres September 28 on Netflix.

☆ Read the exclusive pitch deck that recruiting startup Joonko used to raise $25 million from top VCs including Insight Partners
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-13 | by ( Jessica Xing | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read the pitch deck Joonko used to raise a $25 million Series B led by Insight Partners. Joonko, a human-resources tech startup in Israel, just raised a $25 million Series B funding round led by the venture-capital heavyweight Insight Partners. Backing its mission with business metrics like annual recurring revenue and a growing client base won over those investors, CEO Ilit Raz told Insider. It raised a $10 million Series A round last year at a $89 million valuation, according to PitchBook. Read the pitch deck that Joonko used to raise its $25 million Series B:

☆ 2 professional home organizers share how business has boomed in the last year thanks to tidying-up shows like Netflix's 'Get Organized'
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-08 | by ( Shanna Goodman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Home organizing became popular earlier in the pandemic, partly thanks to shows like "Get Organized." Two people who recently started organizing businesses share how they've grown in the past year. In her first 12 months in business, Moore and her team of four — which she started hiring three months into her business — helped 80 clients and organized 237 spaces. "There are so many opportunities ahead, and professional organizing is as much a mental-health service as it is a residential service," Klug of Inspired Organizer said. No certifications are required to perform services as a professional organizer, but these professionals said organizing and business training could go a long way.

☆ Un nas artificial capabil să ''miroasă'' bacterii a fost conceput de o echipă de cercetători israelieni
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-21 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

O echipă multidisciplinară de oameni de ştiinţă de la Universitatea Ben Gurion din Israel a inventat un nas artificial capabil să detecteze o varietate de bacterii, informează agenţia TPS.Un nas artificial capabil să monitorizeze în mod continuu contaminarea bacteriană - o realizare ce a fost considerată până în prezent dificil de atins - are numeroase posibilităţi de punere în practică. "Am inventat un nas artificial bazat pe nanoparticule de carbon unice ("puncte carbonice"), capabile să depisteze molecule de gaz, mai ales să detecteze bacterii prin metaboliţii volatili pe care acestea îi eliberează în atmosferă", a declarat profesorul Raz Jelinek, cercetător principal în cadrul studiului.Nasul artificial utilizează reacţii chimice şi electrozi pentru a "mirosi" bacterii. Din punct de vedere tehnic, acesta înregistrează modificările la nivelul capacitanţei induse prin legarea moleculelor de vapori la electrozi interdigitaţi (IDE) acoperiţi cu puncte carbonice ce prezintă polarităţi diferite.Învăţarea automată poate determina senzorul să identifice, cu precizie înaltă, diferite molecule de gaz, individuale sau în mixturi, potrivit Agerpres

Persons: Universitatea Ben Gurion Organizations: Universitatea Locations: Israel

☆ Spanx CEO Sara Blakely: People who 'achieve their dreams' have this trait–'it's not about having brains, money or experience'
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-24 | by ( Taylor Locke | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

"The difference between people who achieve their dreams and those who don't is simple," according to Spanx founder and CEO Sara Blakely. "It's not about having a ton of brains or ton of money or a ton of experience," according to Blakely. Indeed, Blakely started Spanx in 1998 with just $5,000 she had in savings from selling fax machines door-to-door. Without having any background in design, business or manufacturing, Blakely ultimately built Spanx into a billion-dollar brand. "In the middle of my meeting with [the Neiman Marcus rep], I could tell I was losing her.

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