December 8, 2021 - Getting a Startup Job as a Late-Career Candidate

View online | Unsubscribe Too many emails? Get just one newsletter per day - Morning / Evening

From the Editor's Desk When Data Creates Competitive Advantage Many executives assume that customer data can give you an unbeatable edge. The more customers you have, the more data you can gather, and that data, when analyzed, allows you to offer a better product that attracts more customers. You can then collect even more data, repeating the cycle until you eventually marginalize your competitors. But this thinking is usually wrong. Though the virtuous cycles of data-enabled learning may look similar to those of network effects—wherein an offering increases in value to users as more people adopt it and ultimately garners a critical mass of users that shuts out competitors—they are not as powerful or as enduring. Continued here TradeBriefs: Newsletters for Decision-Makers! Our advertisers help fund the daily operations of TradeBriefs. We request you to accept our promotional emails. Want the newsletters, without the promotional mailers? Get an (ad-free) subscription to TradeBriefs Premium for just $2 per month. Access to premium content | No advertisement mailers Work Getting a Startup Job as a Late-Career Candidate The first step is to assess whether its really the right move for you. Work Zuck Is A Lightweight, And 4 More Things We Learned About Facebook From 'An Ugly Truth' Facebook is such a hot mess, a major new book about it is already out of date. But its underlying lessons are timeless. Work Americans Still Have a Bunch More Savings Than Before the Pandemic Why, exactly, do savings seem to have stayed stable? Work This Startup Couldn't Give Away Its Products. Now It's a $1 Billion Unicorn | Inc.com The silver lining of hitting rock bottom. Work A Study of 597 Logos Shows Which Kind Is Most Effective Is your logo too simple for its own good? Work Here's what people searched for on Google in 2021 Work Apples ugly China deal mostly bought time | Reuters Apple could pay an even bigger price for its secret deal in China. Chief Executive Tim Cook signed an undisclosed agreement in 2016 promising Beijing $275 billion of investment in the country over five years in exchange for relaxing pressure on its business, according to a report published on Tuesday. He may have had little choice, but it muddles the return calculus. Work How Great Coaches Ask, Listen, and Empathize Leadership doesnt mean having all the answers. Work Should Firms Encourage Their Customers to Vaccinate? | INSEAD Knowledge Private firms can boost their bottom line while promoting pro-social information. Work Early risers get more support and are happier than night owls, study says | The Independent Night-oriented people tend to be out of sync from others during the day, which could lead to negative perceptions about them Work Millions of Followers? For Book Sales, 'It's Unreliable.' Social-media fandom can help authors score book deals and bigger advances, but does it translate to how a new title will sell? Publishers are increasingly skeptical. Work Your Face Is, or Will Be, Your Boarding Pass Tech-driven changes are coming fast and furiously to airports, including advancements in biometrics that verify identity and shorten security procedures for those passengers who opt into the programs. Work Your damp or sweaty mask still works fine Whether you sweat or pant through a cotton or surgical mask, a team of researchers have found that your mask is still doing its job. Work China claims its authoritarian one-party system is a democracy -- and one that works better than the US As some 100 countries prepare to convene virtually for US President Joe Biden's Summit for Democracy, China is busy trying to convince the world that it's also a democracy -- and its version is superior to the United States. Work Debt ceiling: House takes step toward preventing U.S. default The House passed a bill that would allow the Senate to raise the debt ceiling with a simple majority vote. Work 8 Negotiation Tips for Introverted Entrepreneurs The business world puts a lot of emphasis on knowing how to talk. This emphasis can make certain aspects of the entrepreneurial world daunting for an introvert. Negotiation skills can feel like overwrought drama when compared with the plain-speaking findings of research and investigation. And, on top of that, many people view negotiation as a [] Work U.S. priority should be American chipmakers, not TSMC: Intel chief - Nikkei Asia Washington needs to invest more in domestic companies, Gelsinger says Work Inside Karlie Klosss New Life The supermodel, philanthropist and new mom is making her mark beyond fashion: I wanted to change how I was using my job and my platform as a model. Work 5 Ways to Focus Your Energy During a Work Crunch You can still be in control. Work A tale of 2 markets: America's $100bn club grows as China's shrinks - Nikkei Asia Innovation lifts valuations in U.S. while Beijing's crackdown takes a toll Work How to Convince Yourself to Do Hard Things Our brains are wired to conserve energy when were tired or stressed. Work Why Grief Is Isolating Even When You're Surrounded by People | Time Barbara Lazear Ascher, author of Ghosting: A Widow's Journey Out, writes about what it's like to be consumed by grief after a spouse's death and to feel isolated even though death is universal. Work What Prince Harry doesnt understand about finding 'joy' at work Work may not set your soul on fire each day, but that doesn't mean it cant bring you satisfaction and a sense of belonging Work Techno-optimism for 2022 What you should be excited about Work Disneyland Faces Backlash in China After Its Beloved Fox Was 'Rude' to Fans Chinese fans have accused a Disneyland performer of ruining the perfect image of their beloved fox, LinaBell. Work The 50 best albums of 2021, No 8: Olivia Rodrigo Sour | Olivia Rodrigo | The Guardian The 18-year-olds wildly successful debut may show its influences very plainly, but its anxious, barbed emotions announce a new and singular talent Work Make Twitter less toxic by fixing your notifications I closed my DMs, changed my notification settings, and got my life back. Work Japanese billionaire Maezawa blasts off to International Space Station | Reuters Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa set out to became the first space tourist in more than a decade to travel to the International Space Station (ISS) when he blasted off on Wednesday, a voyage he sees as a dry run for his planned trip around the moon with Elon Musk's SpaceX in 2023. Work If You Do This for 2 Minutes Every 2 Hours, Scientists Say You'll Be Much Smarter | Inc.com Especially if those two minutes occur just before you need to do something important. Work When meditation turns toxic: the woman exposing spiritual sexism | Life and style | The Guardian Since suffering a miscarriage at a womens retreat, Tara Brach has tried to reform the world of meditation by arming its practitioners with a single weapon: self-compassion Work Germany's Olaf Scholz takes over from Merkel as chancellor Olaf Scholz is confirmed as chancellor, leading a three-party coalition after 16 years of Merkel rule. Work Adele: Unvaccinated fans banned from Las Vegas residency shows | The Independent Easy on Me singer is performing a series of shows at the Caesars Palace Colosseum Work Is a vegan diet healthier than eating meat and dairy? Work Find the Coaching in Criticism The right ways to receive feedback Work Im the TikTok Couch Guy. Heres What It Was Like Being Investigated on the Internet. The invasive TikTok sleuthing I experienced was not an isolated instance, but rather the latest manifestation of a large-scale sleuthing culture. Work China to make it harder for tech start-ups to raise foreign funding, FT reports China is drawing up a blacklist targeting new companies in sensitive sectors that use the variable interest entity structure, reported the Financial Times. Work How to Make Your Hybrid Workplace Culture Work | Inc.com Your company culture doesn't depend on being onsite Work A 48-Hour Culinary Tour Of Mendocino County Mendocino County is home to a treasure trove of culinary delights. From the bounty of the sea to the bounty of the earth, its a place that offers locally sourced ingredients that make dining in the area exceptional. For your next getaway, check out these spots worth your time and your appetite. Work Enterprise escalator Impact Rooms rises to prepare African startups for growth and investment A few years ago, at the start of the fintech services boom in Africa, Oliver Blantern got an opportunity to work in the continent offering advisory services to high-growth startups. For slightly over three years his company, Riverhouse Technology, helped the emerging tech firms in talent sourcing a Work TrueNorth has raised $50 million from Sam Altman and others to empower independent truckers Jin Stedge studied aerospace engineering at MIT, but after she found herself at Scotty Labs, an SRI International spin-out focused on autonomous driving, she says she came to appreciate how far away the tech is from large-scale adoption. Indeed, when Scotty was acquired by DoorDash in the summer of Work Lydia grabs another $100 million for its European financial super app Just a few weeks after announcing stock and crypto trading, French fintech startup Lydia is announcing that it has raised a $100 million Series C round. With this funding round, the startup has reached a unicorn valuation, which means that it is currently valued at more than $1 billion. Dragoneer a Work Better.com CEO Vishal Garg apologizes to current employees for 'blundering' of mass layoffs; SPAC delayed Better.com CEO Vishal Garg apparently realizes hes done wrong. (As if the barrage of negative publicity wasnt enough evidence of that.) Today, a letter to current employees was leaked on Blind by a verified Better employee.In the letter, Garg apologized for the way he (mis)handled the layoff new Work Therify hopes to build a more diverse and inclusive therapist network with $1.3M seed round Finding the right therapist is never an easy task, but it gets even harder when, as a person of color or someone with disabilities, there are few or no people sharing your experience available. Therify hopes to change that with a network of providers from and catering to marginalized populations. & Work Autonomous driving startup Deeproute.ai prices L4 solution at $10,000 Deeproute.ai, an autonomous vehicle startup with offices in Shenzhen and Fremont, California, unveiled an ambitious self-driving solution on Wednesday. The package, named DeepRoute-Driver 2.0, is a production-ready Level 4 system that costs approximately $10,000. The price tag is incredible given t Work Covid live: over-40s in England now eligible for booster after three months; South Korea surge sparks alarm | World news | The Guardian Millions of over-40s in England can book a top-up jab from today; South Korea PM Kim Boo-kyum says hospital capacity under strain as cases rise Work England skittled for just 147 by Australia in dramatic start to Ashes series | The Ashes | The Guardian England began their Ashes tour in disarray at the Gabba, flopping to 147 all out on a dispiriting first day which saw Rory Burns dismissed by the first ball of the series Work Australia's fertility rate falls to record low in 2020 | Australia news | The Guardian Registered births fell by 3.7% in 2020, with the total fertility rate at an all-time low of 1.58 babies per woman Work Journalists in China face 'nightmare' worthy of Mao era, press freedom group says | China | The Guardian Reporters Without Borders calls increasing media oppression in China a great leap backwards and says Hong Kong journalism is in freefall Work Tennis Australia denies seeking loopholes for unvaccinated players as Novak Djokovic included in draw | Tennis | The Guardian Australian Open organisers say all players, participants and staff must be vaccinated as Djokovic, who has not revealed his vaccination status, is included in tournament draw Work James Bond: acclaimed writers explain how they would reinvent 007 | James Bond | The Guardian Producer Barbara Broccoli has not yet decided how Bond will return in the next film but here are some ideas Work The inner lives of cats: what our feline friends really think about hugs, happiness and humans | Cats | The Guardian They do what they want, all the time and can teach us a lot about how to live in the present, be content and learn from our experiences Work Power companies band together for coast-to-coast EV fast-charger network | Ars Technica Coalition will focus on Interstate Highway System to alleviate range anxiety. Work Google is working on making Chromebooks less sluggish at startup | Ars Technica ARCVM can hog up to 300 percent of the CPU before you even open an Android app. Work Covid: Pfizer CEO says omicron appears milder but could lead to more mutations "I don't think it's good news to have something that spreads fast," Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla told The Wall Street Journal. Work Goldman CEO Solomon sees policy, not the pandemic, as the biggest risk ahead for markets Congress and the Fed will have more impact on what happens than the pandemic, Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon said. Work Couple reunited with abducted son in China after 14-year search that inspired 'Dearest' movie A couple in southern China were reunited with their missing teenage son in an emotional ceremony on Monday, ending their 14-year-search which inspired a hit movie. Work Hollywood Loves a Monstrous Mommy. Can It Do Her Justice? Cinema is finally capturing, with uncanny precision and furious energy, more honest and complex versions of the mother. Work Republicans Attack Child Care Funding As 'Toddler Takeover' | HuffPost Latest News Democrats believe it will be difficult for Republicans to oppose popular elements of Build Back Better, like new child care funding. But the GOP isn't playing along. Work Congress Fumbles Marijuana Reform Again--But That Might Be Good By not sneaking federal marijuana banking reform into the annual defense spending bill, Congress may make it easier to pass more ambitious marijuana legalization proposals, some advocates believe. India Air Force chopper crash LIVE | CDS Gen Bipin Rawat chopper crash | Coonoor news latest An Air Force helicopter, with CDS General Bipin Rawat and some of his family members on board, crashed in Tamil Nadu's Coonoor on Wednesday. Some senior officials were on board the chopper which crashed in Coonoor. Of the 14, four people have lost their lives and three have been rescued. There is no information on General Bipin Rawat. Stay with Indiatoday.in for LIVE updates on Gen Bipin Rawat's chopper crash news. India Nestle cuts L'Oreal stake by selling $10 billion worth of shares, Retail News, ET Retail Following the deal, Nestle said it would own 20.1% of L'Oreal, down from 23.3% previously. L'Oreal, meanwhile, would buy back shares representing 4% o.. India Exclusive: Ahead Of $250 Mn IPO Snapdeal Converts To Public Company Shareholders of Snapdeal have approved the conversion of company and issuance of fresh issue of shares worth INR 1,250 Cr for the IPO offer India Serum may cut Covishield's monthly production by half as govt orders dry up | Business Standard News The Pune-based firm has 500 million doses of Covishield in stock India We cant be like China, need to focus on our strengths: Raghuram Rajan | Top takeaways from interview In an exclusive interview, former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan said that Indias worst mistake would be to think we can be like China and to try and walk their path. "We need to focus on our strengths," he said. Here are the top takeaways from the interview. India Flipkart IPO 'very much on the cards', no timeline for it: Walmart CFO | Business Standard News Flipkart IPO: Timing will depend on where the business is and market conditions, says Brett Biggs India Did rats, common cold make Omicron a super-spreader? India News: First detected in southern African nation Botswana last month, the Omicron variant of the coronavirus has now spread to every continent barring Antarc India Meet Anil Menon, born to immigrant parents, chosen for NASA's 2021 astronaut class- Technology News, Firstpost Anil Menon is a lieutenant colonel in the US air force and was SpaceXs first flight surgeon India The Massive Growth of Mobile Gaming Thanks to a dramatic rise in subscription gaming services and cloud gaming amid the pandemic, India is now the world's fastest-growing mobile gaming market, helping many enthusiasts turn into professionals. Will the momentum sustain? India Tripura Violence: Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Journalist Shyam Meer Singh's Plea Against Tripura Police FIR The Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed all proceedings against two women journalists accused by Tripura Police of spreading "fake visuals" of communal violence in the northeastern state last month. India 110-year overdue book returned to US library A children's book issued out from an Idaho (US) library in 1910, was returned anonymously recently. India MoEngage Raises $30 Mn For Product Innovation, Growth Strategy MoEngage will continue to invest in AI-powered and insights-driven cross-channel engagement solutions, the startup said in its statement. India Forbes India -- Data Analytics: How Venkat Viswanathan Built LatentView Analytics Into India's IPO Blockbuster The 15-year-old data analytics company has taken the conventional road to growth and profitability by focussing on global clients and Indian talent India Allow port out SMS facility irrespective of tariff offer: Trai to telcos | Business Standard News The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India took a strong note of telecom service companies not providing outgoing SMS facility in certain pre-paid vouchers India Connectivity for the next Decade: Mukesh Ambani shares five ideas Speaking at the India Mobile Congress 2021 (IMC 2021), Ambani said, Roll-out of 5G should be Indias national priority India Vir Das is all set to develop and star in American country music comedy series; details here-Entertainment News , Firstpost The comedy series is about a young wealthy man from India who moves to America to restart his life with his family, a press release from the makers said. India What is Mi-17V5 helicopter that crashed with CDS Gen Bipin Rawat onboard The Mi-17V5 helicopter had taken off from the Sulur airbase on its way to Wellington in Coimbatore. India Indonesian fintech Flip secures $48M in Series B to support expansion Flip, an Indonesia-based fintech startup, announced today it has raised $48 million in a Series B to accelerate its growth. The funding brings Flips total capital raised to $65million. Sequoia Capital India, Insight Partners and Insignia Ventures Partners co-led the Series B round. Flip is Insigh India Indian edtech giant Byju's acquires Austria's GeoGebra in a $100 million deal Byjus has acquired Austria-headquartered GeoGebra, the latest in a series of purchases by the Indian edtech giant this year as it scales its online learning platform across the globe. Neither of the firms disclosed the purchase price, but a source familiar with the matter said the deal size is abo India India economy: Reserve Bank of India holds interest rates steady The Reserve Bank of India's monetary policy committee voted to keep the repo rate the rate at which the RBI lends to commercial banks unchanged at 4%. TradeBriefs Publications are read by over 10,00,000 Industry Executives About Us  |  Advertise Privacy Policy  |  Unsubscribe You are receiving this mail because of your subscription with TradeBriefs. Our mailing address is GF 25/39, West Patel Nagar, New Delhi 110008, India Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Followers Blog Archive ►  2024 (7) ►  August (1) ►  May (2) ►  April (3) ►  March (1) ►  2023 (432) ►  December (9) ►  November (25) ►  October (20) ►  September (33) ►  August (72) ►  July (6) ►  June (77) ►  May (12) ►  April (2) ►  March (8) ►  February (85) ►  January (83) ►  2022 (115) ►  December (13) ►  November (10) ►  October (2) ►  September (12) ►  August (25) ►  July (1) ►  June (15) ►  May (13) ►  April (8) ►  March (12) ►  February (1) ►  January (3) ▼  2021 (111) ▼  December (21) Most Popular Editorials: How to Talk to an Employe... Most Popular Editorials: How to Talk to an Employe... December 11, 2021 - Decoding the Digital Talent Ch... December 11, 2021 - This Secretive Billionaire Has... December 10, 2021 - Ray Dalio Says America's Decli... December 10, 2021 - Google execs tell employees th... December 9, 2021 - Covid News: Over 200 Million Am... December 9, 2021 - Omicron: Pfizer CEO says we may... December 8, 2021 - Getting a Startup Job as a Late... December 8, 2021 - Android phone update lets you k... December 7, 2021 - Instagram Parental Controls Are... December 7, 2021 - U.S., Taiwan discuss semiconduc... Admissions Closing for Stanford's Advanced Cyberse... December 6, 2021 - Aung San Suu Kyi sentenced to f... December 6, 2021 - Covid: Travel changes too late ... December 5, 2021 - These 10 states are America's w... Most Popular Editorials: Are you stuck in a "logic... December 2, 2021 - What Would Life on Mars Look Li... December 2, 2021 - WHO says omicron has been found... December 1, 2021 - Brene Brown Thinks You Should T... December 1, 2021 - Here's why unemployment claims ... ►  November (7) ►  October (17) ►  September (24) ►  August (18) ►  July (2) ►  June (20) ►  May (2) ►  2020 (388) ►  June (58) ►  May (17) ►  April (74) ►  March (89) ►  February (118) ►  January (32) ►  2016 (11) ►  August (1) ►  June (1) ►  March (2) ►  January (7) ►  2015 (6) ►  December (3) ►  November (3) ►  2013 (7) ►  May (1) ►  April (5) ►  March (1) ►  2012 (4) ►  October (1) ►  May (2) ►  March (1) ►  2011 (7) ►  August (7) About Me Rijo Stephen Cletus Bangalore, Karnataka, India BE Medical Electronics, PGD Hospital and Health Care Management, CMT and MBA Finance. Pursuing MBL from NLSIU. Experienced in Domestic and International Consulting. View my complete profile