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When facing what seems to be a problem, we nearly always cure/fix the symptoms and not the core issue itself. Distinguishing symptoms from the problem itself is however quite simple. Symptoms, a necessary alarm There is nothing more natural for a person than wait for symptoms to come up so as to identify a given problem. For example, many dentists and doctors will agree that most patients are brought to ...

I know you just read Recession in the title and just want to run away read something less stressing. Just hold it's right there! The fact that there is a crisis, a pretty bad one, is undeniable. HOWEVER people, and in particular entrepreneurs and venture capitalists (VCs) have bought it so much that they just take it for granted. Before they even have felt any damage or impact on their venture ...

In this excellent article published in Fortune Magazine, Chuck Huff (Invention Marketing Expert) and George Davison (Product Development Manager) bring their lights and advice on the key steps to commecialize an invention. To a wide extent, this approach can be applied to business ideas that don't rely on a patent, especially the last part on how to sell the idea/product/licence to interested companies. In brief : There is 2 ways ...

Research papers often present interesting results to the community, by describing in extended detail the conditions under which they obtained some sort of interesting result. However, it is not generally advised to say anything up about the thousands of tries (failures). Yet, any researcher does has the same story:  a long list of changes of parameter, in order to obtain incrementally something successful. Some of those changes yield improvement, other ...

Currently looking forward to start some business activity in Singapore, I was seriously wondering how that is done AS A FOREIGNER of Singapore. Briefly, you either start a "business" (French equivalent: EURL), with one person only, your income is taxed based on Income Tax, or your "company" (French equivalent: SARL), in which at least two people are needed and 1Euro is enough, tax being based on Company Tax. Most ...

There is a number of seducing aspects of being an entrepreneur and running you own company. As for any other job, one is how it is IMAGE. For most jobs there is no real danger or risk in giving a lot of importance to the image you are giving through your job. But when it comes that of entrepreneur, you should really avoid trying to fit the perfect image ...

Today I roughly compared the income and company tax in Singapore and in France. France : Company Tax = 36% / Income Tax = 40% if you earn over 65K Euros / year. Singapore : Company tax = 22% / Income Tax = 15% up to 60K Euros / year and the max is 20% if you earn more. Consequence, as an individual entrepreuneur, you keep for yourself: In France: (1-0.36)*(1-0.4) = ...

Online Social Networks : How to cross the bottom line ? GENETICS. Forget about Facebook and Meetic, 23andme.com, a website specialised in individual DNA analysis (which in an acceptable and innovative service), prepares a transformation into a dating/networking website based on people's genetic code. Facebook has that application called "The Most Likely" which invites your friends to tell what you're the most likely to do or to be...Well you're going ...

The Harvard / Altran course "Innovation in Science and Engineering" is a course that addresses students in any Grandes Ecoles or universities based in Île-de-France. From April to May 2007, four student from INT took this course. Namely Florian Fainelli, William Germain, Youssef Barhomi and myself Youcef Banouni. I am posting this article primarily for INT student, to invite the most motivated to join this class. There is only 3 ...

Here is what can probably be seen as the state of the art quadripedal robot. It walks like a dog, a big one though. Its major skill ? Balance and ability to progress on almost any type of field : woods, rocks and even ICE are no major problem for this insane robot. Check this out : Big Dog, le robot quadrupède de Boston Dynamicsby VENT0LINE