Years ago Google hired on its first of many ethnographers to ferret out the meaning of mobile. Intel, too, has an in-house cultural anthropologist, and Microsoft is reportedly the second-largest employer of anthropologists in the world. Today on ‘Dot Complicated with Randi Zuckerberg’ Dr. Andi Simon, corporate anthropologist and author of [Read More]
Turning a children’s book into an animated program is the stuff of dreams. I know because it’s happening to me RIGHT NOW. Shortly after I published my first children’s book, DOT, the Jim Henson Company approached me about creating an animated series based on a [Read More]
72% of all marketers have some sort of content strategy in place, yet 70% of marketers lack a consistent, or integrated, content strategy—meaning sure, they have one, but it’s probably not working. What about the remaining 29% of leading marketers? They systematically reuse and repurpose content as [Read More]
Imagine you could turn your lifestyle blog into a steady income that eventually allows you to quit your day job. It might be the ultimate dream but there’s no easy path to get there. Out of the estimated 70 million blogs [Read More]
Military training is said to be excellent preparation for a career in business leadership. Veterans bring entrepreneurial qualities like discipline, perspective, leadership ability, and handling pressure under fire as some of the most important skills necessary to run a business. There are currently more than 3 million [Read More]
Internationally acclaimed scholar Dr. Brian Little is a personality researcher and psychologist. He’s a Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus at Carleton University and is a former professor at McGill, Oxford, and at my alma mater Harvard, where his course on personality won him the Favorite Professor award [Read More]
Andrea Lauer is a costume, set designer and stylist with Broadway credits like ‘American Idiot’ and ‘Bring it On: The Musical.’ Andrea’s also a multimedia artist working with clothing and interactive and responsive technologies. Her recent fashion meets tech [Read More]
It’s the end of the summer, which means back-to-school time is upon us once again. And according to the National Retail Federation, which has been conducting its annual Back-to-School and Back-to-College surveys since 2003, 2016 back-to-school spending is set to reach $76 BILLION dollars, up from $68 [Read More]
Fashion brand Stella & Dot is a social selling company that creates flexible entrepreneurial opportunities for women through its mission to democratize entrepreneurship. Stella & Dot sells its wares both online and through its tens of thousands independent, in-home sales reps dubbed “stylists.” Founded in [Read More]
Food tech encompasses everything from middleman restaurant delivery to lab created plant-based meat. While the bulk of food tech funding has gone to food delivery startups—which raised nearly $5.5 billion last year and include two of the most well-funded food startups, China’s Ele.me and Germany’s [Read More]
