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5 Things Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Traveling the World

Up and Running

Part of the program was setting up our own business meetings related to our venture—n New York, Denver, and an international location of our choosing (the group I was in did Tokyo and Kyoto—in five days!). If I ever chose to go global, Japan will get its green-tea-flavored froyo!

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11 Brilliant Businesswomen Who Were Way Ahead Of Their Time

YoungUpstarts

Cashman was born in Ireland and immigrated with her family in 1850 after some hard years due to the Irish Potato Famine. Hetty Green. Hetty Green was nicknamed “The Witch of Wall Street,” largely because of her dour taste in fashion but also because she possessed a certain sort of magic when it came to investments.

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Create High-Impact Data Visualizations: Nine Effective Strategies

Occam's Razor

Are you a whale-load more scared as you contemplate the red and the green? Cyprus and Ireland. One solution I love is a visualization strategy used by the team at the New York Times. Here's a better visual showing the National Debt Burden, with four additional elements of context… ( Source ). Blue vs.

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