by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Nov 12, 2018
Legendary Silicon Valley venture capital investor John Doerr still remembers the pitch he heard from two Stanford students in 1999. Larry Page and Sergey Brin delivered the most concise, compelling mission statement he had ever heard. Google, they said, existed to...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Nov 7, 2018
Real estate mogul and Shark Tank investor, Barbara Corcoran, calls it the most emotional pitch she’s seen in the show’s 10 seasons. The young entrepreneurs showed “inspiring strength,” she said. Corcoran was referring to three siblings who...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Nov 5, 2018
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has launched an ambitious effort to prevent one million heart attacks and strokes by 2022. In its initiative—Million Hearts 2022—the CDC says heart disease and stroke are “largely preventable.” In other words, we...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Nov 5, 2018
What are the odds of winning Tuesday’s record-setting $1.6 billion Mega Millions jackpot? Intuitively, you know it’s a massive number. For the record, the odds of choosing all six numbers correctly in Tuesday’s lottery are one in 302,575,350. Does...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Nov 3, 2018
Forbes.com Article Recommends Talk Like TED Forbes recommends Carmine Gallo’s Talk Like TED and Dale Carnegie’s The Art of Public Speaking as the best communication books. READ...