Supercharged Careers: Elon Musk

By guest author Anne VanderMey

Elon Musk is featured in Zoom: Surprising Ways to Supercharge Your Career by Fortune writer Daniel Roberts. Roberts profiles some of today’s top entrepreneurs and business people who have made Fortune’s 40 under 40 list so that we can actually learn from their success. The excerpt focuses on how Musk’s habit of getting into ventures that seem overwhelmingly challenging and what we can take away from it.

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Catching Up On Readings: A Master Designer on Trech Trends

Designer Hartmut Esslinger, a major player in the creation of the design language that helped Apple change the face of personal computing, talks with Wired about what he expects over the next decade. For this week’s blog posts, click on the paragraph link. >>>

Catching Up On Readings: Money, News and the 21st Century

Mathew Ingram’s recent post on paidContent argues that to expect hard news to be profitable overlooks a long history of subsidized journalism. For this week’s blog posts, click on the paragraph link. >>>

J.J. DiGeronimo’s Interview With Sramana

Getting to Know LA Incubator Be Great Partners

September 17, 2013, marked the first annual Be Great Fest, a red carpet event celebrating the Los Angeles startup community. Los Angeles incubator and accelerator Be Great Partners announced their launch of nine new co-working spaces set to be located throughout the greater Los Angeles area. Before the event, Irina Patterson, who heads up seed financing research and development within 1M/1M, interviewed Lin Miao, the incubator’s founder, to learn more about Be Great Partners and what they do.

Irina Patterson: Tell us in brief about the incubator.

Lin Miao: Be Great Partners is a leading technology incubator in Los Angeles with only one mission in mind: building successful products by investing in talented entrepreneurs.

IP: What year were you established, and where are you located?

LM: We started in 2012 and are on the Miracle Mile in Los Angeles, on the 21st floor of the Variety Building. >>>

Harvard Business Review: When Big Companies Support Start-ups, Both Make More Money

Harvard Business Review has published Sramana Mitra’s piece When Big Companies Support Start-ups, Both Make More Money. You can read the entire article here.

Catching Up On Readings: Disrupt SF 2013 Hackathon

Eager to see the presentations for this year’s hackathon? TechCrunch has you covered. For this week’s blog posts, click on the paragraph link. >>>

Healthcare IT: Making Good Progress

The cost of healthcare administration is a hot issue in America. According to the Center for American progress, in the U.S. healthcare system an estimated $361 billion annually goes to cover administrative costs. That number is a 14 percent of total healthcare expenditure nationwide.

Improvements in IT are expected to reduce these expenditures dramatically. The New England Journal of Medicine, citing the Harvard University Department of Economics, states that “The average U.S. physician spends 43 minutes a day interacting with health plans about payment, dealing with formularies, and obtaining authorizations for procedures.” In the report released by the Center for American Progress in June 2012, experts estimate that adoption of electronic transactions, or adoption of IT, can lead to a potential $26.1 billion in annual savings.
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