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How To Optimize Your Sales Cycle

Previously I discussed lean sales cycles and their importance for scaling startups or established companies. A repeatable, high-margin sales cycle is also necessary to train outsourced sales teams or AI tools. Now, let's examine how to develop such a sales process. 1. Identify the ideal type of customer. Hidden...

Tech Oxymoron #3: Speech2Face

Apparently the safest way to be racist, sexist, ageist or grossly prejudiced is to be an AI that is born in MIT and hyped as ground breaking by its creators. Imagine if you closed your eyes and heard someone speak and decided how they looked....

Brooklyn! Don’t Miss It’s Botanic Garden.

Who says New York is a concrete jungle? You just have to know where the oases are and find some time to enjoy them. One of the most idyllic locations in NYC is the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Yes! A full blown botanical garden just a...

Ever Wonder Whether A Museum Was A Hermitage?

There is one museum made up of several royal hermitage buildings called “The State Hermitage Museum” in St. Petersburg Russia. The State Hermitage Museum was founded in 1764 when Empress Catherine the Great acquired an impressive collection of paintings from the Berlin merchant Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky....

The Mental State Of A Mass Shooter — Who Is Responsible?

Yes mass shootings in the USA are very distressing. Yes, our hearts ache for little defenseless kids and their grieving parents. Yes, most of us would like a solution. No, the government is doing nothing to provide a solution. Even though us voters seem to have little...

Gimme Dat MoPOP

Is the building large overturned buckets dripping solidified slime or is that tattered colored fabric? Wait did you see it move? Want the address? :) But wait … it gets even better. This is the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle. And it isn’t just the building...