The document, officially titled the “Kauffman Index of Main Street Entrepreneurship,” measures the activity of United States businesses that are more than five years old with less than fifty employees, tracking them from 1997 to 2016. Here’s what they found. Entrepreneur Activity Is Higher Than It Has Been Since the Great Recession, levels of entrepreneurship, measured across the nation, have never been higher. Here’s what the report had to say:...

Founded in 2009, the Herndon, Virginia-based nVisium is focused on providing individuals and organizations with the tools and research to ensure that the security of software isn’t compromised at any point during the development process. The company is responsible for establishing the OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) Mobile Security Project, a centralized resource for developers and security teams across the globe to help them create and maintain secure mobile apps....

Pitchbook, one of the leading research firms for private equity and venture capital, recently analyzed the top industry verticals in which VC firms invested, and presented that in an infographic. According to the data, it’s pretty clear that not all VC firms are equally interested in every vertical; while one VC firm invests a lot of money in financial tech, the same firm may not care so much about the Internet of Things....

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Unfortunately, the answer is a bit more complicated than “eating blueberries.” While there are a number of good habits that geniuses have in common, bad habits are just as likely to be found in these titans of intelligence. While the dichotomy of being smart is what makes it such an interesting and productive condition, the last thing you want to do is take advice from a bad habit. A few good habits of smart people include their persistence, their ability to set goals, their avid readership and their self-discipline....

Experts from high-retention companies weigh in on the best perks for retention. Extra Time Off Matt Paddock of Grow, a digital agency in Norfolk specializing in the creative tech space, is seeing a big connection between retention and work-life balance. Along with closing shop for the holidays (Christmas through New Years), they also have a 1 week summer break for their employees. Getting Paid to Take a Vacation Eden Elder, Chief People Officer at FullContact, also believes in perks that focus on work-life balance, which is why FullContact offers perks like unlimited flex-days, $7500 in cash to use on vacation each year (employees who check into work lose the stipend!...

Digital Dos: Most of us are effective participants in the digital world, which means we post, comment and share photos, videos and other information about ourselves. Sometimes, this can be private or sensitive information that we don’t share publicly, but only with a friend or a selected group. Nonetheless, we are not always safe from hackers and online predators, so the best way to protect ourselves is to post only those things we wouldn’t mind everyone else seeing....

This fall, the Microsoft Ventures Accelerator Tour will be stopping off in 11 different cities across the US. It’s all so they can spread the word about their Machine Learning Accelerator program running in seven cities: Bangalore, Beijing, Berlin, London, Paris, Seattle, and Tel Aviv. Microsoft is interested in putting a heavy emphasis on their Seattle program, the only stateside offering, which is currently accepting applications. The next cohort of startups will kick off the accelerator on February 2, 2016....

The report pinpoints which countries are the best and worst when it comes to cybercrime — congratulations, Denmark; sorry, Myanmar — but it also ranks the top internet crimes across the United States last year. We don’t know if you will personally be surprised by the most common threats, but they included a few that we didn’t see coming. Here are the risks to know about. Okay, Phishing Isn’t Too Surprising Granted, the number one online security concern in the US in 2020 isn’t a shocker: Phishing attacks are the biggest problem you’re likely to face, with 241,342 victims accounting for 32....

Thanks to the Alleywatch (with some help from Crunchbase), the top twelve edtech funding rounds of 2016 have been established in New York. Check out the startups below and find out what makes an edtech startup great: CareDox – $2.8 Million CareDox delivers free health technology for K-12 public schools. We help school nurses deliver care and keep students safe. They raised their seed round from Prolog Ventures (lead), TEXO Ventures, Giza Venture Capital, and First Round Capital....

Notably, Secret has found early traction in the tech startup industry, where a fair share of veiled commentary is shared by entrepreneurs, investors, and employees alike. In practice, this makes a lot of sense. Created by former Square and Google employees David Byttow and Chrys Bader, messages posted on the app are shared with one’s immediate contacts and the friends of those contacts; if you start with a comment from any party with numerous connections in the tech industry, it’s only logical that adoption of the platform take place most frequently in the Valley’s tech sanctuaries....

Every hour, on the hour, Shelley tweets out a new story, which consists of approximately two or three tweets followed by #yourturn, asking her Twitter followers to write a line of the story themselves, and then finishes it off with a chilling twist of her own. And the results are truly and sincerely terrifying. I don’t know about you but, noooooooooope! I’ll admit that I’m fairly adverse to horror stories in the first place, requiring a well-lit room, a thick blanket, and at least three friends to watch even the tamest of scary movies....

Dog Vision is a compact web application that allows you to upload any picture and turn it into an image that reflects how your dog would see that same image. Whereas we may see the world in its different shades of red, green, blues, yellows, and all other colors, dogs view the world in red-green color blindness; it is very sad. Using the app you can disable some features like the Deuteranopia filter (red-green color blindness) or brightness discrimination, but why would you?...

The app, called 19 Crimes, paired with wines from Curtis Park Market, makes for a pretty amazing experience. Just point your smartphone at a bottle of 19 Crimes wine and watch the convicts depicted on the label come to life. This is objectively awesome. Not only does it turn Harry Potter lore into everyday reality, it also brings about one of the most intriguing historical stories to life right on your dining room table....

In 2017, Uber has fallen from grace faster than anyone could have predicted. Between unceremonious exits and unsettling scandals, the ride-sharing company has made news in all the wrong ways. Their former employees are speaking out, their current employees are far from happy, and users around the world have started uninstalling the app like it’s going out of style, which it very clearly is. The disappointment is palpable. When diversity reports and company culture studies started making the rounds, executives began falling faster than kids in a game of “Duck Duck Goose....

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LinkedIn released the Top 50 U.S. Companies of 2017 list where people want to work. Data was gathered from their platform which included the number of people applying for jobs at companies, how many non-employees are viewing and asking to meet with a certain company’s employee, and if employees are sticking with their job. The analysis was only conducted on companies with over 500 employees within the last 12 months....