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So why do so many fail? It has to do with how many people you have in your social circles, writes Adam Clark Estes at Gizmodo.
"Our brains are evolution, and our ancestors lived in small groups," he writes.
"So they didn't need to communicate with hundreds of people and didn't get this skill."
In other words, you may have thousands of "friends" on Facebook, but how many of them do you really know? "But running a business implies communication with many more people," Estes writes.
If a company loses the competition, its rivals understand their clients better.
"We don't have a lot of 'brain slots' for business partners, customers, subordinates, and investors," Estes writes.
"And this biases our worldview to an extent.
Who needs your product, and why? Six years ago, I, like many other founders, focused on my product from the opposite perspective from which my customers were...
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The Legacy Foundation in Ottumwa, Iowa, is putting its money where its mouth is.
The foundation has awarded $25,000 in grants to six local nonprofits, including $10,000 to the Cardinal Youth...more
A tiny-home nonprofit in North Carolina is getting $40,000 over the next two years to build three new homes for homeless people.
Pee Wee Homes will use the funds to hire a property or...more
The Legacy Foundation in Ottumwa, Iowa, is putting its money where its mouth is.
The nonprofit has awarded $25,000 in grants to six local nonprofits, including $10,000 to the Cardinal Youth...more
A bank in Kuwait is trying to make it as easy as possible for kids to get their hands on money.
Weyay Bank has launched a podcast called Jeel, in which kids between the ages of 8 and 14 discuss...more
When it comes to getting a driver's license in the US, there's a lot of red tape.
In fact, more than half of the country's DMV offices are still manual, according to a new report from the...more
Virginia Rep.
Jennifer McClellan is the first black woman elected to Congress from her home state, and she's also the first black woman to represent it in the House of Representatives.
But...more
When Beba, a startup based in Waco, Texas, offered customers a chance to buy exclusive products at a reduced price with its digital token, BEBA, it didn't think much about the Securities and...more
If you're in the market for a new website, you might want to check out this list of 30 nonprofit mission statements, rounded up by Nonprofit World.
They're great if you're in the market for a new...more
One of the world's most prominent anti-poverty groups is looking for a senior director of global communications to help it "catch the moment" and "lift up the diversity of IPA's voices," Fortune...more
Atlanta's Emory University is putting its money where its mouth is.
Per the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the university's provost announced this week that the Bill and Carol Fox Center for...more
Here are the star companies that have succeeded in their corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs. The companies were gathered by Civic 50, a national initiative to survey and rank S&P 500 corporations on how they engage with the communities they serve and utilize best practices in their corporate cultures.