The gift card business has nearly quintupled from $20 billion in 1999 to $100 billion in 2010. Along with the growth has come a unique problem: nearly $5 billion worth of cards go unclaimed every year. Cardpool, a San Francisco-based startup, wants to solve that problem. Read More »
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“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious,” Albert Einstein once said. False modesty? Perhaps. But Einstein actually placed a premium on curiosity — not intellect. Why? Because, he pointed out, “we can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we… Read More »
Our weekly wrap-up of stuff you need to read, or bookmark for future reference. This week we’ve got stabs at various aspects of leadership — and in two cases, examples of what not to do. Several others come out of an email blast we got from… Read More »
If you had to pick one mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) whose success has spawned dozens of copycats (most of them failures), then you have to go with Virgin Mobile USA. By focusing on the younger demographic, the company has snagged about 4.83 million… Read More »
