A founder finishes a keynote, steps off stage, and is asked by a friendly stranger how the new round is going. She smiles, says it’s an exciting time, and changes the subject. In the car twenty minutes later, she...
Some people make decisions by moving quickly to the workable option. Others circle the problem, test the assumptions, imagine second-order effects, and keep asking whether the obvious answer is only obvious because it arrived first. The second group may...
There is a moment at the end of a business lunch that tells you almost everything. The important conversation is over, the deal is settled or it isn’t, and someone comes to clear the plates. Watch the face of...
Conexeu Sciences, a preclinical-stage regenerative tissue platform company, has opened a research and development facility in Vancouver.
The Nevada-born innovator, which trades on the Nasdaq as CNXU, is opening the R&D facility within adMare BioInnovations’ M4 Innovation Centre.
AdMare BioInnovations—which utilizes...
If you’ve ever worked in hospitality, you know things about people that most never have to learn, and you learned them fast. A year behind a bar or carrying plates will teach you more about human beings than a...
A B.C. software engineer is hoping Canadian motorcyclists are ready for a marketplace of their own.
MarketMoto, a new app for buying and selling motorcycles, gear, and parts, launched nationwide on iOS and Android on May 28. Founder Matt Greenberg...
Researchers slid 17 married people, average age 52.85, into an fMRI scanner and showed them photographs of their spouses. These were not newlyweds. They had been married between 10 and 29 years, with an average of 21.4 years together,...
A 50-year longitudinal study of 1,795 Americans, tracking the same people from age 16 to roughly 66, found that average personality change across the lifespan ran to about half a standard deviation, with 20 to 60 percent of individuals...
The youthful founder story has always had a strong visual grammar: the dorm room, the hoodie, the early all-night build, the person barely out of university who sees what older people have missed. It is a compelling story, and...
Consider two people at the end of a difficult meeting. The first registers that they feel bad. The second registers that they feel humiliated — not angry, not embarrassed, not disappointed, but specifically humiliated. The feeling is not more...
