Shi Tang travels to China four or five times a year to visit her family. Although she always looks forward to being there, there’s one thing she dreads the most about traveling home: jet lag. There’s a 12-hour difference between New York and Beijing – if it’s 11am in New York, then it’s 11pm at home- and she usually takes a 14-hour flight to get there. Long distance traveling alone is exhausting,…

Living in an apartment with three roommates leads to incessant begging and nagging for various groceries and supplies. The struggle of trying to decide who is going to buy what, is constant. Although we all try to take turns, our schedules just do not permit flexibility. So, whenever we have the time to squeeze in a trip to the store we attempt to gather everything that everyone needs. However, there has not been a time when one person remembers everything that…

Today there is a big issue plaguing the service industry, leaving companies throughout the country with less money and fewer resources each time it occurs. This issue is referred to by many as “no shows.” It’s when clients don’t show up to their appointments at all, or show up late to them. In the health industry alone, each no show that occurs costs the company on average of $196. However it is not just the health industry that is affected, most industries are. There…

Each year, about 30,000 products are produced and introduced to the public. The founders of these products wait anxiously, hoping that their product will be one of the 1,500 products that do not fail. That’s right, 95% of products that are introduced to the public every single year, end in failure. There are many reasons why this failure occurs in so many companies. We’ve chosen six of the most influential factors that can lead to a potential failure…

Everyone knows the famous names behind the world’s biggest companies like Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Travis Kalanick, and many more. Meet Jan Koum, David Karp, Chet Pipkin, Ryan Smith, and Zhou Qunfei. These are the names of the wealthiest tech founders around the world. Jan Koum