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The wellness trifecta: Tech resources to optimize your diet, sleep, and fitness

Mar30
by on March 30, 2014 at 1:00 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, LifeHacks, Roundups

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Ari Meisel is a serial entrepreneur and the author of ”Less Doing, More Living: Make Everything in Life Easier.” No matter how technologically efficient you become, if you aren’t sleeping or eating well, and you have too much stress, there is a limit to how effective you can be. That’s why wellness is the cornerstone of my productivity system, Less Doing. I see optimal health as a triangle with sleep, nutrition, and fitness at the points and supplements in the middle. You need all of these elements and in you have to apply limited resources to the entire triangle. For example, if…

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Samsung Galaxy S5 review: Incremental is the new cool

Mar29
by on March 29, 2014 at 10:01 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Product Reviews

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Apple is under siege. Samsung is moving from strength to strength with every new version of its flagship Galaxy phones and this year is likely to be no exception, with the S5 on the horizon. What started out as a poor alternative to the iPhone is quickly becoming a powerful adversary; Samsung is quickly matching or outpacing features on the iPhone, desperate to keep up in the race, to make sure that it can always be directly compared to Apple’s flagship. Not only does Samsung directly target Apple, it’s also got the most popular Android based handset and most of…

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Why European startups shouldn’t fundraise in the Silicon Valley

Mar29
by on March 29, 2014 at 5:00 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur

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Andrej Kiska is an associate at Prague-based Credo Ventures. “European startups are able to raise just a fraction of the capital at home compared to their U.S. counterparts. And they receive a lot more value from their investors. Why would I ever fundraise anywhere outside of Silicon Valley?” I was not surprised to see quite a few such reactions to my recent blog post analyzing investment sizes and valuations in Europe. Looking at the numbers, the decision to fundraise in Silicon Valley for European startups seems pretty logical… at first glance. However, I am going to argue the opposite. For most European startups…

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