Lance McHenry, Author at StartUp Mindset

ConversionPoint’s Robert Tallack Emphasizes Culture in Building Successful Teams

7 years ago

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Everybody talks about teamwork and team-building and yet, in the real work world, achieving success with collaborative partnerships often seems hard-fought. In fact, a study by Behnam Tabrizi, who teaches transformational [..] read more

Tesla Motors Fires Hundreds of Employees Citing “Bad Performance” as the Reason

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Lance McHenry

7 years ago

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Last week, a significant number of employees were dismissed by Tesla Motors following the completion of its annual performance review in spite of the fact that efforts are being made by the automobile manufacturer to enhance [..] read more

Mark Zuckerberg Apologizes for Insensitive VR Tour of Puerto Rico

US & World

Lance McHenry

7 years ago

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Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg was fiercely attacked after streaming a live video of him on a virtual reality tour of the hurricane-devastated Puerto Rico which was aimed to promote his new Facebook [..] read more

Starbucks Shuts Down Its Online Store. Their Reason for Doing it Kinda Makes Sense.

Entrepreneurial Lifestyle

Lance McHenry

7 years ago

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In a world where every business from giant corporations to local mom & pop stores are pushing to make their business more relevant in the online world, Starbucks has decided to say “no thanks”. This [..] read more

Kohl’s will soon allow customers to return items purchased on Amazon.com

Technology

Lance McHenry

7 years ago

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If you live near Los Angeles or Chicago, Kohl’s is about to make returning the things you bought on Amazon.com much easier. Following announcement that Kohl’s would start selling goods from Amazon in ten of its [..] read more

Uber Selects Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi to Replace Travis Kalanick as Chief Executive

Technology

Lance McHenry

7 years ago

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Dara Khosrowshahi is not your typical high-profile CEO, that’s why it came as a shock to many when Uber’s Board of Directors choose him to replace Travis Kalanick as the new chief executive of Uber. Former CEO [..] read more

Elon Musk And AI Experts Call For A Ban On AI Weapons Before They Destroy the World

Technology

Lance McHenry

7 years ago

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In a dramatic turn of events signifying how close the world has probably come to making the “Terminator” series a reality, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Mustafa Suleyman of Google’s Deepmind and 114 other [..] read more

SoundCloud Plans to Replace its CEO as Part of a New “Do-or-Die” Funding Deal

Technology

Lance McHenry

8 years ago

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Thursday Axios reported that SoundCloud is about to get new investment from the Temasek and Raine Group. The investment is estimated to be worth 170 million dollars. A part of this investment will help them pay previous [..] read more

Apple Paid Nokia $2 Billion As Payment for a Patent Lawsuit

Technology

Lance McHenry

8 years ago

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Following a battle over patents between Apple and Nokia that worsened last December before it was resolved in May, Nokia has received an upfront cash payment of $2 billion from Apple . The details of the settlement were [..] read more

Shopify Adds eBay as a Sales Channel for Merchants

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Lance McHenry

8 years ago

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The Ottawa-based e-commerce platform Shopify currently has a number of sales outlets for their merchants including Amazon, Facebook (and Facebook Messenger), Pinterest and Buzzfeed. Now, Shopify has added [..] read more