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Stories of the Week
A Surprising Tech Center Emerges In Upstate NY
It’s being shaped by the presence of dedicated business people with a sense of the region’s long manufacturing history.
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The Pandemic Showed Us What Works
Three ideas for investments in infrastructure to make us healthier.
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What You May Have Missed
Big Social Media Doesn’t Work That Well For Small Business. But The Market Is Shifting.
A revelatory story by Lori Ioannou about the realities of dealing with big social media companies: For small businesses, they’re often expensive, with little result.
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Living the dream
Buzzworthy Now that we’re returning to the office, it’s time to pay attention to body language again. In an issue on better relationships, Time Magazine quoted experts advising: Don’t cross your arms or legs. and don’t fidget. Do change your attitude — smiles help, not a tense look — and do tailor your actions to the context. “A firm handshake and a small smile might fit the bill for a third-round meeting with the boss.. Marching someone’s posture and commenting on the environment around you might be suitable if you’re striking up a casual conversation, said Nicholas Boothman, author of How to Make People Like You in 90 Second or Less.
Best Practices Spend no more than 10% of gross revenue on marketing, seek platforms other than Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter (smaller platforms may work better because they’re more targeted) and establish a goal for engagements. These tips and more in the Times of E story on how big social media platforms have started failing small business.
What I’m Reading
A story in The Economist uses home prices as a proxy for where people moved during the pandemic. People want sunshine and low prices.
This article in Futuriom details a new investor in an Alphabet cybersecurity spinoff called Sandbox AQ. The investor? The CIA. It was a reminder of the incestuous relationships between world governments and social media companies (aka defense contractors?).
Along the same lines, The Logic reported that the Canadian government has considered appointing a director to oversee the integrity and national security of the financial sector as the risks of cyberattacks grow.
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4.5 Hour Workweek: A Productivity Hack
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1. Pepperdine Most Fundable Companies
Annual startup competition run by Pepperdine University’s Graziadio Business School. Most Fundable Companies List winners will be featured in Entrepreneur™ Magazine and announced at the October Showcase in Malibu, CA. All US-based startups with <$10M annual revenue, in all industries, are eligible. They can be at any stage from pre-revenue/pre-seed through Series A. Affiliation with Pepperdine not required.
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