Radio Recap: Mother’s of Invention
Since its inception in 2012, Toyota has cultivated the Toyota Mothers of Invention program by awarding more than $1 million to women-led companies with Driving Solutions grants and facilitating networking opportunities, building relevant connections, and providing access to intellectual capital to help their organizations grow. These women, who are leading the charge to work on [Read More]
Radio Recap: Julie Zhou’s Making a Manager + Family Tech w/ Verizon
Julie Zhuo is the Vice President of Product Design for Facebook, having led the design team responsible for the app and its services. Julie was just 25 when she became a rookie manager at the Facebook. Her knowledge was limited but she was open to learning. Now, years later Julie outlined her first-time management experience [Read More]
Radio Recap: Cannabusinesses
2018 was a pinnacle year for the cannabis industry. Michigan voted to join 8other states that have gone fully recreational, while Missouri joins 30 states that have already gone the medical route. And Canada legalized the entire country. Also worth mentioning is the first cannabis-based drug treatments approved by the FDA and the rise —and [Read More]
Radio Recap: Transportation Sharing
According to Balance Small Business, the sharing economy is one of the fastest growing business trends ever in history, with investors putting inmore than $23 billion in venture capital funding since 2010 into share-based model startups. Since most of these businesses are private, it’s impossible to know the actual size of the sharing economy but there [Read More]
Radio Recap: FemTech + Global Mobility
Historically, tech that caters to women's health issues hasn't received much, if any, funding—but the tide is turning. According to a study from Frost & Sullivan, it’s estimated that by 2025, Femtech will be a $50 billion industry. The term ‘Femtech’ was first coined in 2016 by Ida Tin, the founder of menstrual tracking app, [Read More]
Radio Recap: Niche TV Content
Whether it’d be from a device, at home, in a restaurant, or on top of a taxi, with 81% of the U.S. population currently living in an urban area, people are increasingly more exposed to a multitude of screens throughout their day. So it’s crucial that what goes on those screens not only needs to be [Read More]
Radio Recap: The Psychology of the Unfollow
Back in the pre-Internet days when we had a blowup with a friend or a breakup with an ex, we simply didn’t hang out with them anymore. Nowadays we unfollow, mute, unfriend, and block people we no longer want to hear from. But more and more studies are showing that the psychology of the unfollow [Read More]
Radio Recap: False Advertising
Federal law states that all advertising—that means radio, print, billboard, TV, or anywhere else—must be truthful, not misleading, It also states that when possible, ads should be backed by scientific evidence, yet a 2018 study called the ‘Deceptive Marketing of Hope,’ conducted by the nonprofit, Truth in Advertising, or TINA, found that out of the [Read More]