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This Student-Led Startup Helps You Sort Through Subscription Box Options

This Student-Led Startup Helps You Sort Through Subscription Box Options

Did you know that more than 2,000 subscription box services exist in the U.S. (as of March 2016)? From meal delivery to workout gear to treats for Fido, consumers want it all delivered — the average subscriber receives seven boxes and has at least twelve on their wish list.

This Kennesaw State Professor Is Developing An Algorithm to Help Drones Deliver Faster

This Kennesaw State Professor Is Developing An Algorithm to Help Drones Deliver Faster

With companies like Amazon and UPS exploring unmanned aircraft delivery as a shipping option sooner rather than later, the drone may soon become your preferred delivery method. Drones have a lot of advantages — faster delivery and traffic alleviation among them. But once the technology becomes more readily available, how will

This Librarian Turned Into A UX Designer to Tackle Real Human Problems With Data

Christeene Alcosiba took a winding path to technology. Currently an academic librarian and program director at Emory, Alcosiba entered a UX design course to transition her experience managing large data sets into technology. The newly-minted UX designer has a special knack for Human-Computer Interaction concepts and evaluating and building products

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Lessons in Leadership: How First Data Builds An Acquisition Pipeline Through Partnerships

When you're a corporation with thousands of employees and numerous departments to manage, innovation is hard to nurture. Companies take different routes to find it — some open innovation centers and others send employees to accelerators to stay current. Global fintech leader First Data looks outside their organization, finding

Homey App Teaches Kids To Budget While Helping Parents Track Chores

Homey App Teaches Kids To Budget While Helping Parents Track Chores

Teaching financial literacy at a young age has a big effect later on — especially considering that according to the Federal Reserve, total U.S. outstanding consumer debt was $3.62 trillion as of May 2016. Learning accountability, the need to stay within a budget, and concepts like credit and debt,

SalesTing Connects Your Sales and Marketing Teams to Measure Real Impact on Leads

SalesTing Connects Your Sales and Marketing Teams to Measure Real Impact on Leads

There's no shortage of sales software to help you gather and pursue leads. But do you really know who within the team is qualifying leads and what strategies worked? Often, a company's marketing team doesn't communicate enough with the sales team, even though sales

This Startup Wants to Make Medical Bills Pain-Free

This Startup Wants to Make Medical Bills Pain-Free

Medical bills are one of the easiest payments to fall through the cracks — unlike a monthly bill, there's rarely a reminder system, and between handling unexpected illness or injuries and coordinating with health insurance, you can easily forget. One in five Americans with medical insurance have unpaid, past-due