Bluesmart: World’s First Smart, Connected Carry-On Luggage

What is Bluesmart? Bluesmart is a high-quality carry-on suitcase that you can control from your phone, like a boss. From the app you can lock and unlock it, weigh it, track its location, be notified if you are leaving it behind and find out more about your travel habits. You can also charge your phone 6 times over with a built-in battery. Isn’t that awesome? After decades of no innovation in the luggage industry, we re-imagined the suitcase to solve all the problems of the modern traveler. N...
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The Power of the “AND” Philosophy

Guy Kawasaki: Influencer -- Chief evangelist, Canva ~ Like many entrepreneurs, Daniel Lubetzky’s path has been a series of ups and downs that alternately made him deliriously excited and desperately worried. Lubetzky is the CEO of KIND, founder of PeaceWorks and OneVoice, cofounder of the apparel company Maiyet, and author of the New York Times bestseller Do the KIND Thing. According to Lubetzky, people often let circumstances force them into choosing between two seemingly incompatible opt...
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Isabel Allende: How to live passionately—no matter your age…

We have curated the post below from TED because we felt that it was a very interesting and an appropriate way of delivering a presentation on the topic of living passionately and because we wanted to introduce TED (an acronym for Technology, Entertainment and Design) to anyone who may not be aware of it. We feel that  the  presentations at TED are always good for expanding ones horizons and the topic of ... How to live passionately—no matter your age piqued our interest as a topic that applies ...
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The Entrepreneurial Opportunities in the Coming “Resource Revolution”

Author: Reid Hoffman, Entrepreneur. Product Strategist. Investor - April 03, 2014 Over the next decade and a half, 2.5 billion people in China, India, and other developing countries will join the global middle class. They are going to need skyscrapers to live in and super-stores to shop in. They are going to want smartphones, cars, flank steaks, air conditioning, pet clothing, Disneyland vacations, and probably some throw pillows. How is a planet already straining under the pressure of tod...
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Jobs are Over: The Future is Income Generation- Part 1

Author: Heather McGowan - Academic Entrepreneur + Innovation Strategist, June 20, 2014 This is part one of a three part series on the changing shape of employment, the emergence of the collaborative economy, and the potential impacts on higher education. The era of using education to get a job, to build a pension, to then retire is over. Not only is average is over and the world flat, but this is the end of employment, as we once knew it. The future is one of life-long learning, ser...
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