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Summary List PlacementLaura Vanderkam, podcaster, time management and productivity expert, and author of "Off the Clock: Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done," said that the essence of goal-setting boils down to "figuring out what we can do with the resources available to us."  This year, in light of COVID-19, this includes being honest about your mental and emotional reserves, sources told Business Insider.  ...

Summary List PlacementFor Danielle Magness-Wellmann, 41, dressing like members of the British royal family isn't just a pipe dream — it's an expensive and time-consuming hobby. Wellmann, whose Instagram account has over 5,000 followers, estimated that she's spent about $30,000 over eight years buying regal outfits identical or similar to those of royals like Meghan Markle, Kate Middleton, and Queen Letizia of Spain.  The...

Summary List PlacementIn January 2018, Marisa Corcoran, an Atlanta-based freelance copywriter, leveraged her five years of freelance copywriting experience (intermixed with side jobs) and launched her business Marisa Corcoran, Inc., banking $50,000 that year. In 2019, she quintupled her earnings to $250,000. This isn't an ordinary success story for a freelance copywriter — especially when you consider that the average amount that this job...

Summary List PlacementWhen Elizabeth Rees' friend was setting up a startup in New York back in 2012, she needed an office that would look and feel like the brand she was building. She was in the midst of raising a series A and was working in a transitional office space. Rees, whose family operated a printing company, suggested designing a removable wallpaper that could...

Summary List PlacementAs the pandemic persists, entrepreneurs continue to adjust how they conduct business.  Yet surprisingly, the number of new businesses being registered rose since March, with new business applications seeing a jump of 77% last fall, according to the US Census Bureau. After falling last quarter, new business applications jumped 42% in January, driven mainly by entrepreneurs.  To help small businesses withstand the...

Summary List PlacementBoolean logic — if it sounds like a phrase straight out of an algebra textbook, that's because it is. Developed by a 19th century mathematician, this research method allows people to seek out information using "and," "or," or "not" phrases and is widely used among recruiters as a way to filter through job candidate profiles with efficiency and speed.  And job seekers...

Summary List PlacementIt all started at her mom's dining-room table.  After the 2016 presidential election, Alisha Ramos was experiencing professional and emotional burnout. Ramos, who was 26 at the time, had been working as the design lead for HealthCare.gov, which was undergoing major changes as a result of the new administration.  "I was showing up to work every day, but I had no fulfillment,"...

Summary List PlacementThe twentieth-century literary scholar and philosopher Kenneth Burke once wrote that, "The conventional forms demanded by one age are as resolutely shunned by another." Burke's point was that the ever-evolving nature of communication technologies continuously alters the forms of discourse that dominate our information landscape. In the past 10 years, the world has been undergoing a seismic change in this regard, as...

Summary List PlacementEataly, the Italian marketplace home to multiple eateries, retail, and more, tripled its number of stores in North America between 2016 and 2019, and with it saw its business grow substantially.  The company continued to remain successful through 2020. Of course, Raffaele Piarulli, executive vice president of Eataly North America, who's been with the company for 11 years — including the 10...

Summary List PlacementEarlier this week I was plugging in my Christmas lights when I heard my phone vibrate on the counter — it was a Twitter notification from my company's intern. She said in a direct message, "Read this thread." I stopped what I was doing and began skimming April Christina Curley's Twitter thread about her removal from Google and my jaw dropped. April...

Summary List PlacementThis year, investors poured more than $4 billion into EdTech startups by August, according to Crunchbase, rising to $9.7 billion by November, Wired reports. When the pandemic forced many students into full-time remote learning last spring, people begun reconsidering the value of a traditional college education in its present form. This helped spur the growth of online education options across the educational...

Summary List PlacementThe Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania routinely appears at the top of the list in MBA program rankings. A recent 2021 Global MBA Ranking led by education specialists Quacquarelli Symonds put Wharton No. 2 on the list of the best business schools in the world. But if you aspire to get into this elite graduate business school, be aware of what ...

Summary List PlacementAfter a few hours home alone without looking at her phone, Akvile Les, 30, receives a notification. It's a message asking how she's doing and whether she'd like to chat — but the text doesn't come from a concerned friend or family member. Les is trying out Replika, an app founded by San Francisco startup Luka that allows users to design an...

Summary List PlacementImagine throwing your whole life savings into your startup but at the same time, not risking all of it on the success (or failure) of your company, as beloved as it is you. A new community called FounderPool wants to help startup founders do exactly that, by spreading their financial risk across a spectrum of startups without any cash up front.  It...

Summary List PlacementTelepresence robots — essentially Zoom on wheels — first emerged about a decade ago. Early users ranged from business executives taking "tours" of factories to doctors making virtual rounds with patients to homebound students with chronic illnesses or disabilities. As a result of COVID-19, however, these robots have seen a flood of new interest from people who need to stay physically distant,...

Summary List PlacementCreating a social and professional life through a screen has become the norm in 2020, and while "Zoom fatigue" is real, so are the opportunities that come from a world online.  Even prior to the pandemic, the average person might not be able to jet to Italy for a one-on-one cooking class with a celebrated chef or indulge in bimonthly facials, but...

Summary List Placement What do investors want to see in startup pitch decks? For founders seeking funding for their companies, that's the million-dollar (or multimillion-dollar) question.  And it's one Allison Byers, CEO of Scroobious, a new video pitching-platform for entrepreneurs, has set out to answer — for herself and for her community of startup founders. After years of gathering personal pitching experience — first...

Summary List Placement According to a recent study published by Upwork, "Freelance Forward: 2020," an increasing number of young adults are turning to freelancing for career opportunities. The study found amid a tough job market, made even more difficult due to the recent impacts of COVID-19, half of the Gen Z workforce between the ages of 18 and 22 have freelanced in the past...