Imagine this… you arrive to your interview confident and excited. You sit across from the hiring manager and he or she says, “Oh, I don’t have a copy of your résumé. Do you have an extra one with you?” Only to realize, you didn’t bring any. Yikes! Being prepared with key documents can increase your chances for a successful interview. …read more
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By David John Marotta, Contributor
Imagine that five years ago, you could put your money either with a bank in Cyprus or America. After those five years, the bank in Cyprus will confiscate 10% of your money with a onetime tax. Where would be the more favorable place to deposit your savings? …read more
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By Meghan M. Biro, Contributor
Imagine a huge, vastly wealthy enterprise with global reach and hundreds of thousands of employees. Now imagine that same organization chooses its leaders exclusively from within its own ranks, in a top-secret conclave, and communicates its decision to the world via smoke signals. Sounds like something out of Game of Thrones, doesn’t it? …read more
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By Peter Kelly-Detwiler, Contributor
Imagine the following: your family doctor says you need emergency heart surgery and books you into the top clinic in the country, which is out of state. The surgeons will be ready for you at 10 AM tomorrow. So you go to the airport, and book a standby ticket rather than reserve a seat. …read more
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Imagine you heard three relatively well-known people share their opinions on investing, all within the same week or so. They don’t know each other, and their backgrounds are quite different. …read more
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Imagine 16 million solar panels blanketing large pieces of land and covering roofs of homes and businesses. That was the number installed in the United States in 2012, when 3.3 gigawatts of the solar equipment materialized to representing a 76% annual growth. …read more
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Imagine a word cloud to represent discussions about how to make data useful in business right now. Based on what I saw at Strata in late February in Santa Clara, you would see “big” in letters about 4 inches high and the word “data” in regular 12 point type. As my pals at Gawker say, “Thatz Not Okay.” …read more
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By Marc Weber Tobias, Contributor
Imagine that you are on a cruise ship in the middle of the ocean, perhaps hundreds or thousands of miles from land, and want to make a phone call or access the Internet. Did you ever wonder how your wireless device works when there are no cell towers or traditional infrastructure available like at home? And more importantly why it does not work better, faster or cheaper for voice and data applications? …read more
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Imagine the synchronicity – a pseudonymous video pouring a syrup of envy over America’s wealthiest “one percent” goes viral the weekend before the 2013 Forbes Billionaire list comes out. The two worldviews – one decrying the accumulation of wealth as unjust and one cataloging the efforts and rewards of (mostly) business success could not be more incompatible. …read more
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Imagine a world with unlimited food, water, and energy—in which we prevent disease rather than cure it and in which our lifespans increase along with our wisdom and knowledge. This is what entrepreneurs are making possible. They are leveraging rapidly advancing technologies in a wide range of fields to do what only governments and big labs could do before: solve humanity’s grand challenges. They are creating technologies that will allow us to go from battling over scarce resources to debating how we share and distribute the bounty that we create. …read more
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By Jan Bruce, Contributor Imagine that you’re a CEO of a bloated company with an under-performing workforce. You’re faced with achieving high growth, better earnings and killer product in a very short time. Your competitors have eclipsed you in innovation. Since you’ve come from their ranks, you know that the secret sauce is shared commitment, innovation, and the ability to stay out front and ahead of the pack, no matter what it takes. Most CEOs turning around a business would likely evaluate the stay-at-home work force under this lens as a very likely group to target for increased productivity and cost savings, which is why I find it so rankling that Marissa Mayer’s leaked initiative to outlaw working from home has sparked so much work-life balance controversy. I also find it ironic that much of the conversation is between journalists and writers, most of whom likely work at home, rather than CEO’s who are faced with the tough choices of cost, productivity and engagement. …read more
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Imagine going on vacation and instead of coming home simply “relaxed,” you return smarter, fitter and more interesting than before. It’s possible, and exactly why “how-to” vacations are becoming popular for busy multi-taskers who want to do more than just get away. Our Startle.com editors have seen an uptick in the kinds of vacations that offer fun, structured ways for travelers to explore new passions, develop skills, make friends and soak up tips from industry experts—and the options for where to go and what to do are endless. …read more
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By Young Entrepreneur Council, Contributor
Imagine a world where you could sell your products and services for top dollar, and …read more
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Imagine if you could completely immerse your fans, consumers, and clients in your brand. …read more
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By Eric T. Wagner, Contributor
Imagine you only have an 8% chance of being alive in 3 years. Think about it: an 8% chance — 3 short years from now. …read more
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By Alex Kantrowitz, Contributor
Imagine you finish up a run, tweet about it, and then, minutes later, see an ad for a refreshing beverage. If you think it’s coincidental, it might not be. Brands are already reading tweets and serving ads based on what’s written to people on mobile devices, and the practice is now set to expand to desktop too. …read more
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By Eric T. Wagner, Contributor
Imagine dreaming of an iconic product in your head for 3 years. On launch day — you press the button on your Kickstarter campaign and walk away. …read more
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Imagine you’ve purchased a group Long Term Disability Income (LTD) plan for you and your employees. Who becomes disabled? You do. The plan pays a standard percentage of income, however when you file the claim you are shocked to discover the monthly benefit you’ll receive is much less than what you expected (and you don’t need a shock, considering you’re disabled). The reason for the surprise reduction in income is that your company is an S Corporation (S Corp), and this particular insurance company measures income by your W-2 wages, ignoring your K-1 income. Had you asked for income to be defined, you might have decided to purchase your LTD from a company that does include K-1 income in its definition. …read more
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By Eli Portnoy, Contributor Imagine a high school freshman who is blessed with enough athletic gifts that he has a long shot to eventually go pro. To do so will require a lot of work and a lot of luck. So far he has been playing a bit of basketball, football and occasionally baseball. He is most passionate about basketball, but his height makes it much more likely that he will have success in football. During his first high school semester the coach of the basketball team sits him down and tells him that in order to be a pro one day, he is going to need to focus on one sport and give it his all.
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By Brian Domitrovic, Contributor Imagine the economic growth we’d experience if the economy were freed of its artificial impediments.
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