Radio Show Recap: Mothers’ Day Tips from “Dot Complicated!”
With 4.3 babies born each second, and over 2 billion moms around the world, thankfully motherhood is another thing technology has successfully disrupted. Here’s a few mommy facts: The average age of modern moms is now 25 whereas the age of new moms was 21 in 1970; Currently 72% of moms with children over 1 [Read More]
Elizabeth & Clarke’s Unstainable White Shirts
There's a long held rule that if you were a white shirt, you will spill something on it. That's why we can't wait to get our hands on an Elizabeth & Clarke blouse--a.k.a. the world's first unstainable white shirt. The shirts are made using nanotechnology (teeny-tiny “whiskers” 100,000 times smaller than a grain of sand) that repels [Read More]
Radio Show Recap: How to Make it as an Entrepreneur
Whether you’re making a plan to go it alone or you’re already deep in the trenches of entrepreneurship, the odds of succeeding as a startup have been said to be one out of every 10. So if it really is a one in 10 chance of success, what are the 10% doing right that the [Read More]
nspHire, the Tinder for Job Searches
Tired of sifting through resumes and cover letters? We get it. Avoid all the corporate back-and-forth and cut to the chase with nspHire (free for iOS and Android). The new job matching app for employers and job seekers makes it simple for employers to hire candidates for freelance, full-time, and part-time positions; internships; and virtual assistant jobs. [Read More]
WomenOn20s
Move over, Andrew Jackson: a new national campaign is out to replace the former president with a fresh face on the $20 bill. The "Women on 20s" movement is going viral, with 80,000 people heading online to pick from potential candidates like suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Congresswoman Patsy Mink, and abolitionist Sojourner Truth. Here’s how [Read More]
Radio Show Recap: The Business of Marijuana
Up from $1.5 billion dollars in 2013, legal cannabis and CBD oil sales grew 74% to $2.7 billion in 2014 making these popular new wellness products the fastest growing industry in the US. According to Greenwave Advisors, legal cannabis could be an industry with revenues of $35 billion by 2020 if legalized at a federal [Read More]
Honk, AAA Roadside Assistance for the Modern Age
There’s nothing fun about needing a tow truck. From the frustration of waiting forever for it to arrive to the unshakable knowledge that you’re about to be gouged for a simple service, it’s a situation most drivers would gladly avoid. And like most industries, the experience of ordering a tow truck hasn’t changed in decades. [Read More]
Jon Ronson on Public Shaming
In the United States, public punishments have been banned since 1839. But nearly two centuries later, it seems like someone’s being flogged in a virtual town square on the Internet every day. In his new book, So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, investigative journalist Jon Ronson examines why the digital space has become full of moral policing--and [Read More]