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☆ I quit my six-figure tech job because I couldn't work abroad. Now I make half the money at a startup but get to travel wherever I want.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-24 | by ( Hannah Towey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Sergio Najera quit a six-figure engineering job because the company didn't allow international travel. Courtesy of Sergio NajeraFast forward a couple of months and I'm planning a bigger trip: a month and a half in Peru. I decided to take the startup job because it would give me the flexibility to work from wherever I wanted to and I really prioritized that. From making friends to making sure you can work productively, traveling full-time comes with challengesEverything I need to work remotely. I just want to be happier — that's really what it boils down to.

Hector Carvajal, 26, is the founder of Don Carvajal Cafe, a Dominican-sourced coffee roaster, and lives on $25,000 a year just outside New York City. Today, the 26-year-old runs Don Carvajal Cafe, a coffee roasting company out of the South Bronx that sources its beans from the Dominican Republic. "In the countryside of the Dominican Republic, we farm, we harvest, we roast coffee," he says. For the first three years of running his business, Carvajal lived rent-free with his mom in the Bronx in her rent-stabilized apartment. It's also why it's so important to him to source his coffee from farmers in the Dominican Republic.

☆ Workers who tested 4-day workweek say they'll never return to 5 days—or only with a huge pay bump
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( Jennifer Liu | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

And leaders say they're willing to continue because the business didn't suffer. On average, businesses decreased their schedules by six hours, from about 41 to 35 hours per week per employee. 'Once you give people a four-day workweek, how do you take it back?' But company president Mike Neundorfer, who's been interested the four-day week concept for a while now, says they're trending the right direction. There's no going back, Mathew says, for the organization or for her personally: "Once you give people a four-day workweek, how do you take it back?

☆ An activewear startup backed by Michael Jordan's son hit its first fundraising goal. Here's how Äktiiv plans to take on Lululemon and Nike.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-05 | by ( Matthew Kish | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Äktiiv products are biodegradable and made from plants. The Portland, Oregon, startup Äktiiv, which rhymes with black sleeve, launched its first products on Kickstarter in November and recently hit its fundraising goal. Cash from the campaign will be used to scale the company, including its marketing. But there's a twist: Äktiiv products are biodegradable and made from plants, not materials derived from oil or plastics. Similarly, Äktiiv products are designed to be worn in the gym, not while running errands.

☆ Forget smartwatches, consumers are buying up these quirky, alternative wearable devices
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-03 | by ( Samantha Murphy Kelly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

People turned to activity trackers, smartwatches and other devices to keep tabs on their steps, vital statistics and more. Rather than sitting inside or on top of the ear canal, bone conduction headphones rest in front of the ear, leaving it uncovered. Bone conduction headphones by Shokz. Shokz ($125) pioneered bone conduction headphones, but the market has since expanded with other brands offering similar designs. But some audiophiles say the sound quality on bone conduction headphones and open earbuds is less than stellar.

☆ Global 4-day week pilot was a huge success, organizers say
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Anna Cooban | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

London CNN Business —The verdict is in: A four-day work week is good for business. None of the 27 participating companies who responded to a survey by 4 Day Week Global said they were leaning towards or planning on returning to their former five-day routine. About 97% of the 495 employees who responded said they wanted to continue with a four-day week. 4 Day Week Global, a nonprofit organization, collaborated with researchers at Boston College, University College Dublin and Cambridge University for the trial. A separate six-month trial in the United Kingdom, also run by 4 Day Week Global, and which included 70 companies and 3,300 workers, wrapped up this month.

☆ Read the pitch deck for a startup that's aiming to disrupt film production in Hollywood with an app that's 'like fantasy football for film buffs'
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Reed Alexander | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Startup production company Legion M is crowdsourcing funds and promising to give movie fans greenlight power. Legion M, founded by Paul Scanlan and Jeff Annison, lets investors buy shares for as little as $40. Legion M now has four films in post-production slated to be released in 2023, the cofounders added. Legion MLegion MLegion MLegion MLegion M'A company with a built-in audience for everything it creates'One slide spells out the potential power of one million fan-investors — as consumers, promoters, and predictors of successful projects. Legion MThe Nicolas Cage film 'Mandy' was an early success for Legion MLegion MLegion MLegion MLegion MLegion M says its annual revenue has surpassed $1 millionLegion MLegion MLegion M

☆ Check out the 15-page pitch deck that Legion M, a Hollywood production startup, is using to recruit movie fans as investors for as little as $40
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( Reed Alexander | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

☆ How this 37-year-old aerospace engineer is designing a spacesuit for women
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-01 | by ( Magdalena Petrova | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Although women ages 25 and older now represent a majority of the college-educated workforce in the U.S., they still trail men in many of the STEM fields, particularly in engineering and computing jobs. The 37-year-old aerospace engineer is also the CEO and founder of Girl in Space Club. The direct-to-consumer fashion brand also has a mentorship arm, aimed at getting more girls interested in STEM education through fashion. One of the group's largest projects is designing a women's in-vehicle spacesuit to be worn by astronauts during takeoff and re-entry. Thompson and her team have launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funding.

☆ How this activewear startup funded by NBA legend Michael Jordan's son plans to take on Lululemon and Nike
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-01 | by ( Matthew Kish | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Äktiiv products are biodegradable and made from plants. Two Nike veterans, including the basketball legend Michael Jordan's son Jeffrey Jordan, are launching a brand for sustainable workout apparel that hopes to compete with the likes of Lululemon. If it's successful, cash from the campaign will be used to scale the company, including its marketing. But there's a twist: Äktiiv products are biodegradable and made from plants, not materials derived from oil or plastics. Similarly, Äktiiv products are designed to be worn in the gym, not while running errands.

☆ How Peloton went from a pandemic-era success story worth $50 billion to laying off more than 4,000 workers and losing 3 top execs in a month
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( Avery Hartmans | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

Peloton's stock has been trading well below the IPO price of $29 per share, at one point dropping as low as $8.22. Prior to founding Peloton, Foley was president at Barnes & Noble, overseeing its e-commerce business. "I would say that it took about five years for the really smart money to start getting involved," Foley told Insider in 2018. The ad, featuring a woman whose husband gifts her a Peloton bike for Christmas, was viewed as being sexist and playing into outdated standards of beauty. Public outrage over the ad sent Peloton's stock plunging 9%, wiping out $942 million in market value in a single day.

☆ How Peloton went from a pandemic-era success story worth $50 billion to laying off more than 4,000 workers and losing 4 top execs in a month
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( Avery Hartmans | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

☆ Investors once shied away from funding sex-tech, but now they're 'gung-ho.' Here's the pitch deck sexual-wellness startup Dame used to win over VCs and raise $7 million.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Samantha Stokes | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Once a crowdfunding darling, sexual wellness startup Dame has now raised a $7 million Series A. The 8-year-old startup believes that women's sexual wellness is key to their overall health. Here's the pitch deck Dame used to raise funding from investors like Amboy Street Ventures. One startup linked the importance of sexual pleasure to overall health and well-being in order to secure $7 million in fresh funding from VCs. But sexual health startups make up a small but growing sub-sector of the $175.6 billion global digital health market, with a few that specifically focus on women's sexual pleasure.

☆ U.S. tech execs hone approach to counter unions amid growing worker interest
▼ + stars: | 2021-11-24 | by ( Julia Love | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

Mapbox's response offers a window into how tech companies are pushing back as unions seek to bring workers into the fold. The CWA also formed the Alphabet Workers Union, a so-called minority union that does not have collective bargaining rights. For many tech workers, the promise of a generous payday is no longer enough. They also want sound working conditions and assurances that the products they are building will not harm society, tech employees and organizers say. On their website, members of the Mapbox Workers Union wrote that they banded together "to build a lasting, accountable, inclusive Mapbox."

☆ Meet the Nigerian board game creator trying to change an industry
▼ + stars: | 2021-09-22 | by ( Aisha Salaudeen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Created in 2017, "Homia" is a memory and recognition game card game where players race to build their Nigerian home to win. "Wan wan touch" is a football-based board game. But in Nigeria, there is hardly any data about the tabletop game industry. There is also no access to tabletop games cafes and other value chains surrounding these games," he explains. People can come there to play," he says, with 60 Nigerian-made board games and another 300 non-Nigerian games.

☆ Ce este, cum susține creatorii entuziaști și cât costă să ai un cont pe Patreon, unul dintre cele mai populare portaluri de crowdfunding
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-26 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | Corespondentă Din Liceu | ) diez.md time to read: +4 min

Patreon a reușit să atingă aceste culmi înalte datorită impactului extraordinar din ultimii ani. Patreon a adus o serie de avantaje pentru mulți oameni care activează într-un spectru larg de domenii. Conform datelor obținute exclusiv, cele mai populare categorii ale Patreon din ultimii trei ani au fost muzica și jocurile video. După un început pasiv, canalul a prins la public și a ajuns la 1,5 milioane de abonați. #diez a pregătit și o listă a inițiativelor din Moldova cu mai puțin de 50 de susținători, care merită sponsorizate pe Patreon.

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☆ 23 Black leaders who are shaping history today
▼ + stars: | 2021-02-01 | by ( Courtney Connley | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +39 min

Following the lead of trailblazers throughout American history, today's Black history-makers are shaping not only today but tomorrow. —Cory StiegRosalind Brewer, 58, Walgreens' next CEO and only Black woman to currently lead a Fortune 500 firmWalgreens' next CEO Rosalind Brewer. When she steps into this new role, she will be the only Black woman currently leading a Fortune 500 firm, and just the third Black woman in history to serve as a Fortune 500 CEO. "When you're a Black woman, you get mistaken a lot," she said during a 2018 speech at her alma mater, Spelman College. —Tom Huddleston Jr.Jason Wright, 38, first Black president of a National Football League teamWashington Football Team president Jason Wright.

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☆ Ce-a trimis Bojica. Tocană aromată de toamnă, din dovleac și linte — Moldova.org
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-26 | by ( Autor Invitat | Diana Preașcă | ) www.moldova.org time to read: +10 min

Aceasta este echipată cu un senzor infraroșu, vizor de realitate augmentată, dar și o cameră care poate citi coduri QR. Aceasta distruge bacteriile, virusurile și alți microbi dăunători, deteriorându-le ADN-ul și ARN-ul și împiedicându-i să se înmulțească. Utilizatorii pot pune până la patru umerașe în husă și o închid cu un fermoar. Mai mult, masca WOOP oferă protecție și împotriva gazelor, a vaporilor și particulelor nocive, fiind utilă în special celor care lucrează cu astfel de substanțe. Masca WOOP poate fi ușor sterilizată și reutilizată rapid și ușor.

☆ Invenții ca în filmele SF, generate de pandemie — Moldova.org
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-11 | by ( Diana Preașcă | Autor Invitat | ) www.moldova.org time to read: +10 min

☆ Birou, restaurant și autobuz: analiza a trei focare de Covid-19 — Moldova.org
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-03 | by ( Diana Preașcă | ) www.moldova.org time to read: +10 min

Aceasta este echipată cu un senzor infraroșu, vizor de realitate augmentată, dar și o cameră care poate citi coduri QR. Aceasta distruge bacteriile, virusurile și alți microbi dăunători, deteriorându-le ADN-ul și ARN-ul și împiedicându-i să se înmulțească. Utilizatorii pot pune până la patru umerașe în husă și o închid cu un fermoar. Mai mult, masca WOOP oferă protecție și împotriva gazelor, a vaporilor și particulelor nocive, fiind utilă în special celor care lucrează cu astfel de substanțe. Masca WOOP poate fi ușor sterilizată și reutilizată rapid și ușor.

☆ Alege un cadou pentru jumătatea ta la Farmacia Familiei — Moldova.org
▼ + stars: | 2020-02-13 | by ( Diana Preașcă | ) www.moldova.org time to read: +10 min

☆ Tot mai mulți turiști străini sunt atrași de tradițiile de iarnă de la pensiunile rurale din satul Trebujeni — Moldova.org
▼ + stars: | 2020-01-09 | by ( Diana Preașcă | ) www.moldova.org time to read: +10 min

☆ În an aniversar, rețeaua Linella va număra 100 de magazine – De 100 de ori mai aproape de tine (VIDEO) — Moldova.org
▼ + stars: | 2019-10-17 | by ( Diana Preașcă | ) www.moldova.org time to read: +10 min

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