Designer reality TV shows might be a hit in 2009, but sartorially creative visionaries had their own views on the kind of threads we’d be wearing in the year 2000. We’re still waiting on those glass wedding gowns, people.
US President Barack Obama is hoping to pull his nation out of its economic funk by turning it into a “green machine”. But he faces an uphill battle transforming his land of opportunity and hyper-consumption in the face of entrenched interests, scepticism and inertia.
However, there is cause for hope. As this report from The SMH’s Washington correspondent Anne Davies reveals, Californian venture capital firms are hot for clean tech.
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Every time one of the big dotcom players raises some mega bucks or gets bought for a zillion dollars, it becomes the analogy du jour. For a while there, every startup was going to be the Pinterest for fishing or, maybe the Summly for supermarkets. Right now, Uber is the business model do jour. And,…
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Back in 2009, behavioral economist Dan Ariely, the author of Predictably Irrational, gave a brilliant TED talk. Using classic visual illusions and his own counterintuitive (and sometimes shocking) research findings, he showed how we’re not as rational as we think when we make decisions. I dug it up this week because I feel that by…
To open this year’s D7 Conference, singer Jill Sobule was asked to cobble together some lyrics about meeting Rupert Murdoch at the 2008 D7 Conference, run by the News Corp.-owned Wall Street Journal. I opened it expecting a perfect storm of earnestness and sycophancy. But it’s actually quite whimsical.
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Launched in Australia this May, ExpenseIt, the new expense app from Concur is aimed to make expense reporting quicker and easier than ever. Users simply snap a photo of a receipt with their smartphone on the go and ExpenseIt automatically turns the receipt into an expense. It will definitely come in handy as a time-saving…
Week 6: For me, whether it’s speed dating or a business proposition, a great pitch should help others understand your vision and get them excited about it as quickly as possible. For some reason my spiel has never generated that much enthusiasm in the speed-dating world, but the business environment is different (I hope).
Generally speaking, my pitches usually follow a formula, which explains (in order) the following…
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