New month, new name for our monthly link roundup! Introducing the Ecommerce Link Digest (nee Blogger’s Digest). If you’re new, once a month we highlight posts from other blogs that are of value and interest to online retailers…

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An interview with Heidi Grant Halvorson, motivational psychologist and author of Nine Things Successful People Do Differently.

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The federal government is moving swiftly (by government standards) to make it easier for small businesses to raise capital in ways that haven't been possible before.

Less than two months since the White House included the idea in its…

David Ferrucci, Principal Investigator for IBM's
DeepQA/Watson project, wants me to understand something very, very important about what makes Watson work. The algorithms, software and massively parallel architectures underlying the Jeopardy-winning technology's design are…

FlexWage Solutions

If your employees are mostly part time and/or on the younger side, many of them may not have bank accounts to deposit their paychecks. FlexWage Solutions offers an alternative for employers to allow their employees to receive access…

It was Wednesday night, a full auditorium at the 92nd St. Y in Manhattan’s upper East Side. We’d had a meeting in the late afternoon, got tied up, so we arrived late and took the only two seats left, against…

Congratulations! You're a blog owner. It has a catchy name. After submitting a blog post, you're amazed at the inbound traffic. The ads in your sidebar are paying your mortgage. People recognize you on the street as that "Cool Blogger".…

It's performance review season, and you know the drill. Drag each of your direct reports into a conference room for a one-on-one, hand them an official-looking document, and then start in with the same, tired conversation. Say some positive things…