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14 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Biggest Accomplishment in 2016

Hearpreneur

I landed my first international travel consulting gig with Blue Marble Dreams and traveled to Haiti to open an ice cream shop. But the thing that I feel is our greatest accomplishment is the fact that we doubled our core team and so far have managed to hire and retain great talent, while keeping our core values consistent.

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50+ Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

Maclendon is a multi-family office wealth management practice. We manage money for entrepreneurially minded families. Office, Maclendon Wealth Management ! #9 The name of my business is Simon Says Social Media. Thanks to Rebecca Simon, Simon Says Social Media ! #31 8 – Basis of Family.

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This Week in the NYC Innovation Community – January 25, 2010

This is going to be BIG.

8AM Regulatory Scrutiny of Social Media: The Impact on PR Communicators in 2010 and Beyond. Join our panel of experts in media law, health care communications and digital/social media as we explore what this heightened government scrutiny may mean for PR practitioners, marketers and media strategists.

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Looking to the use cases of big data

The Equity Kicker

Mining social media and other music sites to predict the next Lady Gaga – GigaOM highlights Next Big Sound as a key company in this market. GigaOM chose to highlight a datacentre management assistant technology called Autopilot from a German company called Arago. Will this idea work? Virtual assistants.

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Out of the Crisis #22: Ron Klain on pandemic response and preparedness, entrepreneurship, and rebuilding trust in institutions

Startup Lessons Learned

He was the White House Ebola Response Coordinator in 2014 and 2015, when the Obama administration set up a pandemic prevention office and created a playbook for managing future outbreaks. The media, our leaders, people on social media keep mentioning this idea, as if we've never seen anything like this before.