Chances are you’ve been reading about the Swiss Startup Factory because you are an entrepreneur and you’re curious. You may be aware that Mike Baur, the co-founder of SSF is forging ahead with this endeavor because he is more passionate about helping the young entrepreneur get started. Baur has more than 20 years’ experience in the banking industry which has given him the insight he needs to help startups get off the ground with their finances as well as to help them hone their long-term vision.
The Swiss Startup Factory was founded just a few years ago in 2014 ,and since that time it has become the foundation for which young entrepreneurs get their start. This Zurich-based organization is helping startups get the counsel they need to get started, as well as their long-term vision to grow and gain momentum. Any startup needs fundraising to get moving, and Baur along with Hartweg can work together to make big things happen in Switzerland for these young businessmen and women that are anxious to strike out on their own.
Mike Baur and Hartweg credit the strength of their organization with their large network of entrepreneurs as well those that would be potential customers and advisors along the way. The accelerator program that is offered by Baur and Hartweg is for three months. This is like a three month training period, allowing entrepreneurs the opportunity to have access to the best mentors, advisors, and even prime office space in the heart of the city of Zurich. The core concept of the factory was to build a network of entrepreneurs that could make a sound contribution to the business world, by offering startups the cream of the crop when it comes to the financial foundation of their business. The advising is a vital part of any startup, and with wise counsel and coaching Baur believes that he has given entrepreneurs everything they need to get off to a great start.
Ambition is a great thing, but it’s not always enough to get a business started or to keep it running. The more sound advice a startup gets in the beginning, the more likely they are to have long-term success. Many entrepreneurs start up only with a wish that they might have a successful launch. They don’t always realize how competitive the marketplace is and what is needed in order to achieve real success.
Actress Kate Hudson is certainly no fool when it comes to style, and she knows that active wear like leggings have pushed denim out of the top selling arena. The work-out gear company she co-founded, Fabletics exploded onto the e-commerce scene in 2013 and has never looked back.
Fabletics sells brightly colored and patterned yoga pants, tees, tanks, leggings, bra crop tops, swimsuits and even sexy, comfy dresses. The concept features a subscription membership with personalized boutiques. The idea is working nicely, because Fabletics already has more than one million VIP members located around the world.
Fabletics has two other co-founders who happen to be labeled branding geniuses. They are business partners Adam Goldenberg and Don Ressler who are thrilled with the success of their active wear retailer. Things are proceeding “just fab-u-lously” online, that the trio are planning to open up to 100 brick and mortar retail Fabletics stores within the next five years. Fabletics is covering all the fashion bases, so to speak.
Fabletics’ motto or philosophy is “Live your passion,” something Kate Hudson strongly believes. She is loved by many as a Hollywood star, but she is also admired as a busy mom of two young boys, living a “regular” lifestyle like most of us. She relies on stylish, comfortable clothing that can take her from dawn into night. Fabletics appeals to that fit lifestyle and makes on-trend active wear that is affordable, functional, flattering and with Kate Hudson’s stamp of approval.
The key to Fabletics’ success might also lie in how it is made. The so-called middle man is removed from the picture. Instead, every design of the label is produced in-house at the company’s L.A. headquarters. That means they can roll out many new looks each month and pass the value on to their customers.
To attract new subscribers, Fabletics offers the first active wear outfit for just $25 with free shipping. As a VIP member, shoppers will save up to 50% off regular pricing and earn points towards free loyalty items.
A VIP does not have to shop each month; that choice is always up to them. To avoid being charged every month, the VIP only has to click on the “Skip the Month” button in their boutique. If they don’t take action, then their credit card will be charged $49.95 on the 6th until they cancel.
Tishman Spenser has filed permits for what is scheduled to be the largest project in New York City this year. The office building will house One and Three Gotham Center, which will be adjacent to the Two Gotham Center that is owned by H&R Real Estate Investment Trust. Tishman intends the project to cover just under 1 million sq ft in Long Island City. On the site where the Revere Sugar Refinery once was, Thor Equities plans to put up the second biggest project in NYC. The 645,013 sq ft building will house five stories of office space. Third on the list of the ten largest real estate projects in NYC will be on 2 Flushing Avenue, covering 248, 489 sq ft. Wegman grocery store will use about a third of the space, and the rest will be for industrial use.
A 150, 431 square-foot rental in Downtown Brooklyn by Delshah Capital makes it number four on the list. The 154-unit Omni New York plan by Vaughn and Eugene Schneur is fifth largest. Next is an Artimus development of a mixed income rental of 18 floors. At number seven is Hidrock Realty’s 31-stroy hotel in Midtown East followed by a 77,228 sq ft office building by F&T Group. The last two are Quality Capital’s 14-story office space in Greenwich Village and a 17-stsory project in Midtown by Boris Aranova.
TOWN Residential is a relatively new player in the market of NYC luxury apartments for rent, but the upmarket real estate firm has carved a niche in the luxury property market. Whether looking to rent, buy, or sell. The real estate agency has the professionals to walk clients through the processes. TOWN Residential is renowned for providing first class listing options. Besides that, the agency offers useful resources- ranging from market reports to guides to relocation services. They can be found on its website for buyers, sellers, and renters.
Finding property in neighborhoods such as Tribeca, Fifth Avenue, and Upper West Side can be daunting without the necessary expertise. TOWN Residential has professionals with industry knowledge that simplify the whole process. With Andrew Hieberger at the helm, TOWN Residential continues to provide unparalleled services, which make it a significant player in the NY luxury real estate sector.
Securus has always attempted to demonstrate the highest levels of integrity in the industry of in the field of criminal justice technology solutions. They recently announced they will be publicly highlighting additional reports from the company GTL in order to to possibly make them behave with more integrity.
This is to be the first in a series of articles that will highlight some of the wrongdoing that GTL has administered. They will help the public by making them aware of some of the many integrity breaches GTL has done.
“I love our industry – serving law enforcement, corrections, inmates, friends/family members, and all of society,” said Richard A. (“Rick”) Smith, Chief Executive Officer of Securus Technologies. “It offends me and our entire industry when a carrier stoops well below the integrity bar that most other carriers have – but GTL does not. Our business’ mission is a lot more than making money. It is to serve all of our customers with their best interests at heart – in the right way.”
The company plans to issue a number of press releases over the next six months that will document some of the abuses GTL did. They will also look at some of the cases brought before the Louisiana Public Service Commission as well, including the following:
Granted, the order by the PSC was dated from January 1998, so that is quite a long time ago. However, according to Securus the potential for wrongdoing continues, so they will still be making their case that Global Tel Link (GTL) should be more accountable for their actions.
Kyle Bass, the former Wall Street executive, turned financial prophet never misses an opportunity to talk about investing and any other topic that is brought up by the media. Bass is known for his unusual style and his provocative relationships with foreign heads of state and unsavory investment partners. Bass and his hedge fund firm, Hayman Capital, have made an extraordinary amount of money over the last eight years, but it seems the money tree may not be bearing as much fruit as it did eight years ago.
Bass made a name for himself in the investment industry when he accurately predicted the implosion of the subprime mortgage game. Bass, left his position at Bear Stearns in 2006 and started Hayman Capital in order to bet against the company he worked for as well as for the industry that made him. Bass made a fortune when the market crashed in 2008, and his investment firm became the talk of the industry. Bass liked the attention, and he became one of the men in the hedge fund industry that people wanted to follow. But Bass is not the type of guy that plays by the book, according to some of those followers.
Bass found himself on the hot seat when he back Argentina’s former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner when she defaulted on $95 billion in bonds. Several hedge funds were caught in that debacle and rather than siding with Paul Singer and other hedge fund managers, Bass took de Kirchner’s side.
The list of Bass blunders keeps growing. Chris Kyle’s widow is claiming Hayman Capital is unethical, and that notion is filtering around the pharmaceutical industry as well. Bass is shorting drug stocks before the news that they are being investigated for overcharging the public for certain medications. Kyle’s friend Erich Spangenberg is the guy that brings up the charges and Bass acts when he gets a signal from Spangenberg. Ethics seems to be a vacillating term with Bass these days, but he is still talking, and some folks are still listening.
Former Juniper Networks CEO Shygan Kheradpir has taken over as the new CEO and Chairman of optical technology giant Coriant. Coriant is an optical vendor with more than $1billion in annual revenues and about 500 customers. Shaygan will also succeed Pat DiPietro as the board chairman at Coriant. Mr Pat is making a comeback as an Operating Partner at Coriant’s owner, Marlin Equality Partners – the company that helped stitched up Coriant. In some ways, DiPietro and Shaygan will be swapping seats as Shaygan was recently working as an operating partner at Marlin as well. The Electrical Engineering PhD holder from Cornell University brings in an experience of over 28 years in executive leadership across technology, telecom and financial services to Coriant.
Shaygan Kheradpir grew up and lived in Sillicon Valley, an area famously known for kids dropping out of school especially at the college level to start businesses. However, Shaygan took a different path and finished school eventually earning a PhD in Electrical Engineering. Shaygan began his executive carrier as an executive with GTE Corp. He then moved to Verizon Communications as the executive vice president and chief information officer of the company. At Verizon, Shaygan was a key figure in helping the communication giant roll out its FiOS FTTH services, a program which demanded an inclusion of a capital investment of over $20 billion. After working as the Verizon CIO, Shaygan moved to Barclays PLC as the Chief Operations and Technology Officer. Previously, Shaygan was the CEO of Juniper Networks.
Coriant, an optical vender that was created out of the combination of Tellabs, Nokia Siemens Networks (MSN) Optical Networks and Sycamore Networks, is facing a lot of challengers from competitors such as Cisco, Alacaterl-Lucent, Ciena and Infinera. Shaygan will be faced with an uphill task of surging the company’s revenues with a reported decline in 2014 revenues as compared to growth recorded by most of its competitors.
As the new CEO, his key tasks will be to drive new and more sales to Coriant’s equipment. There has been a huge demand for service providers such as Coriant to deliver 100G to multi-terabit coherent metro and long haul transport systems. This is besides demands in mobile backhaul upgrades in the new 4G and upcoming 5G deployments. He has the advantage of stepping in a predecessor’s shoes who had led the company in winning lucrative deals with international carriers such as Australia’s NBN, China Unicom, NBN and Telia Sonera International Carrier (TSIC).
According to LightReading.com, DiPietro is quoted as saying that Coriant is honoured to welcome Shaygan as the new Coriant CEO. The article further quotes DiPietro acknowledging Shaygan’s vast strategic insight and guidance as an invaluable employee from his role as a partner at Marlin. Another plus on Shaygan is that he has previously been working as an Operating Partner at Marlin Equity Partners. Working closely with the senior management team at Coriant means he will not be walking to the vendor blindly.
Read more at http://www.lightreading.com/optical/packet-optical/kheradpirs-coriant-comeback/a/d-id/718548
When it comes to trying to get published on Wikipedia in general, there seems to be a rising idea that everyone wants to get there. The idea of being on Wikipedia went from being a “fun source” a little more than a decade ago to being a “credible location for data” in recent years. The key to making Wikipedia page, however, is that while it is certainly a powerful marketing tool for any given organization it is also a very protected marketing tool that many businesses cannot break through the barriers put up by the Wikipedia publishers.
The key to making it into Wikipedia for a business in the very first place is understanding that Wikipedia has become somewhat more difficult to even break into. On the one hand the Wikipedia editors who are high ranking and have authority are a little bit bureaucratic so it can be hard to even put a post down that they will allow. And then on the other hand you have to be aware of how to even use the system when it comes to adding information and posting it in the first place.
If you had the chance to read Science Alert, you can see an article that summarizes the conundrum. On the one hand Wikipedia is about posting significant information as a resource to share, and on the other hand they make it so hard to actually get the information that people want on there. The short answer is that while Wikipedia is a great source, you are going to find that it can be extremely difficult to get into in the first place.
When it comes to actually getting your Wikipedia page for company, the key isn’t to try and go it all alone and hope you can sneak past the Wikipedia guards. What you want to do is talk to the professionals who actually get your content published and have it stay there on Wikipedia as well. One of the top organizations that has been known to have significant amounts of success with Wikipedia publishing is Get Your Wiki, simply because they have been doing campaigns to get information on Wikipedia (and to keep it there) now for years.
If you are looking for realistic and legitimate options on increasing your web presence, check out Wikipedia. And, if you want to know how to get on Wikipedia, then look into what Get Your Wiki is able to do with respect to their success rate.
Sanjay Shah is actually responsible for the amazing work at Autism Rocks and Solo Capital. He started Solo Capital all by himself, and he is running Autism Rocks by doing a lot of the groundwork it takes to get the celebrities onboard. There are a lot of people who come to his concerts for Autism Rocks, but not everyone knows what a great idea it is.
The concerts are events that feature a lot of the most popular people in the world, and they are held in private places where all the people who come get to be pretty up close and personal with the people who are performing. A private performance is a good time for everyone, and it is exciting because all the people who are there are able to meet the artists after the show is over.
All the people who are at these events are able to write a check to a charity, and that money goes to making sure that Autism Rocks can fund more research. The same principles of customer service are used at Solo Capital, and it is the perfect place for people to come when they need to make sure that they have made the right investments. Mr. Shah started by himself, and his company gives boutique advice to everyone who works with him.
Solo Capital actually manages the money that comes in to Autism Rocks, and the company is making sure that people get the service they need when they need it. A lot of people who are investing are not sure how they will make the next right decision, and there are many people who can ask Solo Capital to set up their investment accounts for them. This is a much simpler way of doing business, and it is a very safe way for people to invest. Mr. Shah is very concerned with customer service, and he wants to see that people are going to be comfortable with the service that they get. They can make money from their investments, or they can just get their questions answered by a professional like Mr. Shah.
Coffee is a popular product that has been consumed for thousands of years. The product of coffee comes from grinding together beans that are then combined with hot water to create a bitter yet satisfying taste. With today’s technology, coffee can now be manipulated in such a way to be consumed in multiple different temperatures, flavors, as well as textures. Coffee can now be enjoyed as a delicious treat during the hot temperatures of the summer or be enjoyed as a welcomed hot beverage during the cold mornings in the winter. With the exponential growth in coffee, new niches are being formed including the niche of promoting a coffee that encourages healthy living.
One coffee in particular that has been encouraging healthy living is that of Organo Gold. Organo Gold was founded in 2008 by Bernardo Chua who is a Filipino businessman. Bernardo Chua started Organo Gold on the premise of creating a new brand of coffee that would be both delicious as well as promote the importance of healthy living. Bernardo Chua has extensive knowledge of the business industry and has extensive experience within the multilevel marketing industry. Within his knowledge and experience, Mr. Chua has created a new brand that not only provides delicious products, but also provides relief to any particular ailment. Bernardo Chua created this company on the premise of a secret ingredient that has never before been used in Western culture.
This secret ingredient is called Ganoderma which is a wood-like fungus that has been used in Eastern medicine for thousands of years. Ganoderma is now used by Bernardo Chua to promote healthy living as well as a delicious cup of coffee. One of the biggest improvements that Ganoderma plays a large role in is the promotion of weight loss. Ganoderma increases the levels of oxygen within the body which in turn increases the amount of weight lost through a natural process. In addition to weight loss, Ganoderma also controls inflammation within the body, boosts the immune system, as well as detoxes the entire body.
The wood-like fungus of Ganoderma is transformed into a powdery substance through a natural process through lacks both chemicals or any added ingredient. The powdery substance is then added to a number of Organo Gold products such as Organo Gold’s gourmet coffee, assortment of tea, as well as Organo Gold’s hot chocolate. Thanks to Bernardo Chua, there is now a healthy way of consuming coffee. Bernardo’s official website has even more.
There comes a time when an elderly person or couple can no longer safely live at home alone. When someone is not quite ready for a nursing home, but can no longer safely live at home, there is a nice option that can bridge this transition. Assisted living is a great answer for someone in this situation.
One of the biggest advantages of assisted living is that it allows elderly to maintain their independence and their dignity. They can live alone, with staff coming in to help with self-care as needed. Homemaker services are also available at most assisted living locations. This allows the elderly to be free from cleaning their floors, dusting, cleaning bathrooms, cleaning sinks, changing bed sheets and more.
Meals are also prepared at most assisted living facilities. This makes diet needs easy to manage for residents. It is important for seniors to maintain a well- balanced meal. Nutrition is important for certain medical conditions such as diabetes, and it also helps to maintain strength.
One example of a model assisted living is The Manse on Marsh. They offer studio and one bedroom units. Since their assisted living is part of a senior living community, they also offer homes and cottages next to their assisted living area. This allows seniors to be cared for at various stages of their life.
The Manse on March offers a range of activities at their facility. Many residents prefer a mediation technician dispense their daily medication so they don’t forget to take it. Reviews show that they also check in with each resident at least 5 times throughout the day; morning, meal times and evenings. Residents get great care at The Manse on March.
Assisted living is a popular option for many seniors, and finding the right place is important. It allows them to maintain their dignity in a safe environment. It is the number one alternative to a nursing home. Follow the blog for more information.