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Tech Gadgets That Will Transform Your Outdoor Living Space

The Startup Magazine

When you think of the latest and greatest technology, you might think about devices we usually use indoors — things like big-screen 4K TVs that are the size of Rhode Island or smartphones that have tons of cool high-tech features. Sprinklers that check the weather forecast. Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash.

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26 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

In contemplating various names on a plane ride coming back to Chicago from Boston, we landed in a bad rain storm with the pilot’s forecast of the storm becoming much worst and that we were very lucky to have beat the severe storm. Our business began on the island of Block Island, Rhode Island.

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Out of the Crisis #7, Brian Chesky Part 1: running Airbnb in crisis mode, being multi-stakeholder, and re-founding the company

Startup Lessons Learned

Brian Chesky : And also humans are not good at forecasting or creating a mental model around something that's never happened before. I went to Rhode Island School of Design. But the problem is, it's super hard to grapple in your mind exponential growth. Eric Ries : Yeah. Humans are not good at this. I'm not a business person.