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You don't have to be technical to snag a 6-figure salary at Slack Whether your work experience is in engineering, business, sales or marketing, product management can be the perfect next step for well-organized and strategic thinkers who want to have more say in the company's overall product...

Monsanto's venture capital arm disappears after Bayer acquisition For the agricultural behemoth Monsanto, which this month finalized its $66 billion deal with the chemical giant Bayer, one of those sacrifices is saying goodbye to a venture-capital team that kept the company on the cutting edge...

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin will start selling tickets to space next year Blue Origin, the space-tourism startup owned by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, says it will start selling passenger tickets for trips into space in 2019. The company also plans to conduct crewed test flights of its New Shepard rocket...

Trump threatens 20 percent tariff on European Union cars President Donald Trump threatened to impose a 20 percent tariff on all European Union-assembled light vehicles coming into the United States, a month after the administration launched an investigation into whether auto imports pose a...

"Don’t just aspire to make a living. Aspire to make a difference." - DENZEL WASHINGTON

Press Release Wells Fargo Advisors Settles SEC Charges for Improper Sales of Complex Financial Products Misconduct Imposed Substantial Costs on Retail Customers FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 2018-112 Washington D.C., June 25, 2018 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced...

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“I’m not telling you it’s going to be easy, I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it.” - Art Williams

SEC charges insurance agent with $1.27 million Ponzi scheme The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged James Hocker, a Bellefonte, Penn., insurance agent, with engaging in a Ponzi scheme that targeted unsophisticated retail investors. (Investment News)

"To err is human, to forgive, divine." - ALEXANDER POPE

Invictus By William Ernest Henley Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody...

"Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them." ― Marcus Aurelius

“There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Financial Thought Leader Cliff Asness Sets the Quant and Hedge Fund Record Straight

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you in trouble, it's what you know for sure that just ain't so." - Mark Twain

CULTURE Cliff Asness Knows Less than He Thought AQR’s own research has disproven the size factor and undermined long-term forecasting. Leanna Orr June 21, 2018 “It Ain’t What You Don’t Know That Gets You into Trouble.” “There isn’t a pure size effect,” Asness wrote. “In fact, there never...

Red Hat slides on low guidance As a whole, the enterprise software company said in a statement that revenue rose 20 percent year over year in the quarter. Red Hat saw a 48 percent increase in the number of deals above $1 million that it closed during the quarter, CEO Jim Whitehurst said on a...

“Never lose the childlike wonder. Show gratitude... Don’t complain; just work harder... Never give up.” - Randy Pausch

Not Sold Last year, activist investors got what they wanted at Etsy, as the board of the online marketplace fired longtime CEO Chad Dickerson and replaced him with Josh Silverman, a former EBay and American Express exec. Investors are happy with Silverman's relentless focus on the customer...

Snacktime Chipotle is still trying to fully recover from the E. coli scandal from more than two years ago. It unveiled its latest attempt on Thursday, introducing new menu items such as quesadillas, avocado tostadas, and a chocolate milkshake. The snackier items could entice more customers to...