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21 May

Posted at 23:10h in Uncategorized

  "Singapore is knocking it out of the park in their approach to COVID-19 and they still had to succumb to lockdown.  The United States is no where near their game and we are already trying to reopen. We've got to scale up our response to this virus.  That's the topic of this week's Healthcare Triage." Says Aaron Carroll, MD.  Singapore had one of the world's most robust and effective responses to coronavirus and COVID19. Despite that, the country still had to enter lockdown and struggled to control the spread of the disease. What can this tell us about how the US has responded, and how and when American society can reopen? Aaron E. Carroll, MD, MS  a healthcare speaker, professor of pediatrics at Indiana University School of Medicine who speaks/blogs on topics such as COVID-19, health research and policy at The Incidental Economist and speaks LIVE on Healthcare Triage.  ...

11 May

Posted at 00:18h in Dave Knox, entrepreneurship, innovation, marketing

John Tabis, CEO of The Bouqs Co, believes that the consumer brands that are going to win are the ones that are where customers want them to be. That is why he thinks of Bouqs as much more than just an e-commerce company, with plans to be in retail and anywhere else a customer might want them to be. I sat down with John to talk more about the journey of Bouqs, his viewpoint on business models, and how launching a brand has changed in the last decade. Dave Knox: Let’s start with the origin story of Bouqs. How did the company come to be? John Tabis: This whole thing started with my good friend, Juan Pablo Montufar, at the University of Notre Dame. Born and raised in Ecuador, his family was in the floral business. Even as a teenager, he had a passion for floral and he had always planned to move back to Ecuador...

01 May

Posted at 22:50h in Rohit Bhargava

Six weeks ago nearly every event got cancelled, postponed or moved to virtual. Like many professional speakers, I started delivering my talks virtually. But taking a 45 minute talk and doing it over Zoom doesn't work. It's too long, tech gets in the way and it just feels boring. I knew I had to get better at this. So I started researching. At first it was YouTube videos. I watched a 34 minute overview on selecting the right cardioid microphone. I took notes from a masterclass from a Hollywood lighting pro on techniques like loop and butterfly lighting. I consumed hours of videos on acting techniques, professional studio setups, and product demos. I also asked for advice from some professionals in the entertainment business from my network and read what my friends and fellow speakers were sharing on social media. And I started writing a book all about everything I was learning when...

27 Apr

Posted at 17:26h in Uncategorized

Dave Knox sat down to talk about the rise of cybersecurity and why today – particularly in our new work from home environment – it is becoming a topic of board room discussion. In 2002, Scott Price was 26 years old when his employer, Arthur Andersen, went out of business following Enron. With his focus on auditing security around technology controls, Scott started his first company, growing it to $11 million in revenue seven years later. Sensing a broader opportunity, Scott left to start A-LIGN in 2009. As CEO and Founder of A-LIGN, they help companies comply with different regulatory and information security standards globally. Dave Knox: When you started your career, audits and compliance were mostly financial. Early in your career, you saw that a change was coming and that need would broaden. How has cybersecurity changed compliance over the last decade? Scott Price:  I think compliance really allows businesses to trust each...

08 Apr

Posted at 17:05h in Uncategorized

Everyone wants to know when we are going to be able to leave our homes and reopen the United States. That’s the wrong way to frame it. The better question is: “How will we know when to reopen the country?” Any date that is currently being thrown around is just a guess. It’s pulled out of the air. To this point, Americans have been reacting, often too late, and rarely with data. Most of us are engaging in social distancing because leaders have seen what’s happening in Europe or in New York; they want to avoid getting there; and we don’t have the testing available to know where coronavirus hot spots really are. Since the virus appears to be everywhere, we have to shut everything down. That’s unlikely to be the way we’ll exit, though. Some cities or states will recover sooner than others. It’s helpful to have criteria by which cities or states could determine they’re ready. A recent...

07 Apr

Posted at 23:56h in Uncategorized

In January, virologists in China isolated a new virus. In March the Coronaviridae Study Group of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses named the virus SARS-CoV-2. Most people call it the coronavirus. The virus causes a disease called Covid-19. The vocabulary can be very confusing. The goal of this article is to shed some light on the various terms. Let’s start with taxonomy, a scheme of classification of things, especially living things. A Swedish naturalist named Carolus Linnaeus is considered the “Father of Taxonomy”. In the 1700s, Linnaeus developed a method we still use today to name and organize species. The table below shows one version of the Linnaean Classification of Humans. Kingdom Animalia Phylum Chordata Subphylum Vertebrata Class Mammalia Subclass Theria Infraclass Eutheria Order Primates Suborder Anthropoidea Superfamily Hominoidea Family Hominidae Genus Homo Species Sapiens The level of detail can make your head hurt. We humans are often referred to simply as Homo Sapiens. There is much more detail beyond the table if you want to drill down. When it comes to viruses, the taxonomy makes...

03 Dec

Posted at 20:07h in Timothy Chou

By Timothy Chou

There are no shortage of research development teams (R&D) that built great -- yet ultimately unsuccessful -- products. And while any manufacturer -- no matter the industry -- is capable of doubling its revenues and quadrupling its margins by building digital service products, it's a task that's more easily said than done....

27 Sep

Posted at 21:41h in Rohit Bhargava

By Rohit Bhargava

The first time I wrote about trends, I was inspired by bullshit. I remember reading an article with a headline that promised “5 Trends That Will Change The Future.” The first trend on the list was “Mobile Usage Will Continue To Rise.” That was the moment when I understood deeply why so many people mistrust trend predictions....

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