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10 Office Gadgets Every High-Tech Business Startup Needs

Is it a cool place to work? Before benefits, before travel time, before even salary, one of the first questions any hiring manager will hear from a young, talented tech startup recruit is if the job they’re offering is at a cool workplace. Aside from employee consideration, flexible scheduling, good money and a familial atmosphere, […]

Food Revolution: The High-tech Restaurant Industry #foodtech

By Michelle Cook Avocado oil cocktails. Chocolate cauliflower. Fork-and-knife peanut butter and jelly. According to Huffington Post Canada, foodies can expect some exciting new dining developments in 2014. For restaurant owners, even bigger changes are happening behind the scenes. Recent technological developments will change the way that the food industry is run forever, specifically in four […]

Busuu – small company, big impact

Original post by Jason Hesse , TechCityNews What it’s like to work at Busuu While busuu is the world’s largest social network for language learning, with 35 million registered users across the globe, it is run entirely by a staff of 30. Small company, big impact. Busuu only relocated its office to London in late 2012, moving from […]

10-Month-Old Startup Buys 93-Year-Old Business for $100 Million

Original post by Seth Fiegerman via Mashable Before Jeffrey Raider and Andy Katz-Mayfield even launched Harry’s, an online service for men’s grooming products, they had their eyes set on a first acquisition. The pair wanted to buy an old German razor factory for $100 million. That isn’t how most new startups operate, but then again this wasn’t Raider’s […]

4 Ways Six Sigma Can Increase Overall Productivity

Motorola developed Six Sigma, a strategy that allows manufacturers to create products that are 99.9999998 percent defect free, in 1981. However, it wasn’t until the mid-1990s that the strategy was popularized and mainstreamed by General. There is no exact protocol behind the concept, but Six Sigma instead is a collection of tools, resources, and strategies […]