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The key to any great company is the people. Of course, part of attracting and keeping the best people is compensation. It seems straightforward, but if you don’t develop a philosophy early around how you are going to compensate all those great employ...

There are few things as old as financial catastrophe, except maybe finance. But in the latest fiscal meltdown in Greece, people started asking questions about whether newer technology -- bitcoin and the underlying blockchain -- could help. One of tho...

Steven Hassan is an American licensed mental health counselor who has written extensively on the subject of cults. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mary Shapiro, author of the "HBR Guide to Leading Teams" and professor at Simmons, on dealing with conflict and other issues.

Jonathan Ward is the owner of ICON and a designer and creator of coach-built premium automobiles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

"Call Me Lucky" is a documentary about the life and traumatic childhood experiences of Boston stand up comedy legend Barry Crimmins that was directed by Bobcat Goldthwait. Limited release in theaters starts August 7, visit http://callmeluckymovie.com to a screening. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Given the endless time we all spend with our noses in our phones, it may not be too surprising to hear that the smartphone has taken over the tech world. But the smartphone’s dominance is so complete, says a16z’s Benedict Evans, that it’s useful to t...

Josh Zepps is the host of #WeThePeople LIVE, available on Spotify and at http://wtplive.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Why do so many-government led efforts to build the next "Silicon Valley" in one geography or another fail? Is it misguided to even try? But then what does make such innovation clusters work? In this segment of the pod a trio of expert guests -- Anna...

We sat down with four jet-lagged high school hackers from Nigeria, Brazil, and India -- representing some of the finalists in this year’s Technovation coding competition in San Francisco -- to hear about the mobile apps they created, the culture of c...

Juan Enriquez and Steve Gullans explain how we're "evolving ourselves."

Esther Ku is a stand up comedian, and is also known from the MTV shows "Girl Code" and "Wild 'N Out" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It’s not just the likes of Google, Facebook, and Amazon that lean on a massive and growing corpus of data, today every company is a data-driven company. In this world, access to data -- and how you manage it -- is what matters, says Ash Ashutosh, fo...

Kirik Jenness & Chris Palmquist run the premiere martial arts website on the internet. http://mixedmartialarts.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Biology startups have been around for a long time. But the world has changed since that first wave of bio startups, and especially more recently, due to the "peace dividends of the smartphone wars". So what happens when you combine those cheap sensor...

Big Data is evolving. It’s moving from the sole domain of the high priests of data science, to something that practically every organization -- big and small -- and every group within that organization can get its hands on. So what happens now? The i...

David Krantz, the CEO of YP (formerly the Yellow Pages), explains how they've reinvented their business.

Regulation always lags behind technology, but by 80-plus years?! U.S. Representatives Fred Upton and Greg Walden -- of the Energy and Commerce Committee including the subcommittee on Communications and Technology that oversees almost every technology...

Nick DiPaolo is a writer and stand up comedian. His latest special “Another Senseless Killing” is available now at http://www.nickdipaolo.com. Adam Lowery is a master of mental health and life transition specialist. More information about his work is available at http://www.adamlowery.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dr. Rhonda Patrick is a Ph.D in biomedical science and expert on nutritional health. Her podcasts and other videos can be found at FoundMyFitness.com http://www.youtube.com/user/FoundMyFitness Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices