Margie Pritchard
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I have had several great meetings in Australia, many terrific products ready to take to the market. The guest on my global radio show today on VoiceAmerica Business Channel is Paul O’Byrne who worked with Cate Blanchett for several years. When it comes to the most critical business skills, most startup entrepreneurs have simply taught themselves. …
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Tesla is all-in on its plans to take over the ride-hailing industry. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has revealed the company’s plans to compete with Uber and Lyft by using an autonomous ride-hailing fleet, which will be made up of what are described as robo-taxis. These robo-taxis will operate on the Tesla Network, which is basically…
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Employees at Pinterest, which had its initial public offering last week, are each reported to have an average of $700,000 in company stock. Pinterest, an image-sharing site, has 1800 employees. After its IPO it closed at $24.40, up 28 percent from its $19 pricing, taking these staff to within a whisker of being millionaires. The…
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UPS, in partnership with the drone technology company Matternet, operates a daily drone delivery of medical supplies in WakeMed’s campus in Raleigh, North Carolina. The drone delivery cut the transport time of crucial medical samples from about half an hour to just over three minutes. That can be challenging when the material being moved is…
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I have a fabulous leather collectable Mickey Mouse Wild One jacket and every time I wear it I get offers to buy it. At a studio party the other day I was offered $500 for it. The thing is that I only paid $80.00 for it at a street market. That’s the great thing about…